The Holiday Activities and Food programme provides support to school-aged children in receipt of free school meals through school holiday periods.
The Department of Education allocates funds to local authorities to commission
providers to deliver “enriching activities and healthy meals”.
The funding is for the Easter, Summer, and Christmas school holidays, with each child being entitled to four hours for four days for each week of that school holiday.
This holiday provision is for children who receive benefits-related free school meals.
Provision is to be aimed at all school age children 4-16 years old.
A “behind closed doors” meeting agreed the followng allocations
- Adventure Camps at Energise £13,200.00
- Ballers Academy £3,990.00
- Door 84 £8,000.00
- Dringhouses Out of School Club £1,620.00
- First Step Sports £4,560.00
- Flying Ducks £12,000.00
- Friends of St Nicholas Fields £4,409.00
- Funfishers Out of School Club £8,160.00
- Haxby Memorial Hall £1,580.00
- Healthy Me £10,150.00
- Ignite Sports £15,000.00
- Lost in Living Basketball £5,000.00
- Mini Athletics £1,867.00
- New Visuality £6,150.00
- North Yorkshire Youth £3,000.00
- The Place £9,126.00
- Premier Education £13,400.00
- Sivik Active £8,788.00
- Snappy Trust £11,450.00
- St James the Deacon £500.00
- Teamworks Karting £7,150.00
- Total Sports £20,903.00
- United Education £11,250.00
- York Community Church £5,587.00
- York Explore Libraries £7,500.00
- York Inspirational Kids £10,000.00
- York RLFC Foundation £12,000.00
- York Theatre Royal £2,275.00
Unfortunately the Council has issued no further details of the projects although some, like the Knights Rugby Foundation events, have been going on for several years
Consquently it is unclear how may children will benefit or what the locations will be for any planned events.
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