Deadline: 18-May-22
The Tower Hamlets Council has launched the Holiday Activities and Food Programme that provides funding to local authorities to coordinate a holiday programme that provides healthy food and enriching activities to Free School meal benefit recipients during the Summer Holiday.
Tower Hamlets want to commission a rich and diverse programme of activities delivered by organisations form the private, voluntary, and public sector that respond to local need draws in the wider community and is delivered in a variety of ways across the Borough.
Aims
- As a result of this programme, they want children who attend this provision to:
- Eat healthily over the school holidays.
- Be active during the school holidays.
- Take part in engaging and enriching activities which support the development of resilience, character, and wellbeing along with their wider educational attainment.
- Be safe and not to be socially isolated.
- Have a greater knowledge of health and nutrition.
- Be more engaged with school and other local service.
- They also want to ensure that the families who participate in this programme:
- Develop their understanding of nutrition and food budgeting.
- Are signposted towards other information and support, for example, health, employment, and education.
Funding Information: Grants are available depending on the number of places available each day at the club. An increased grant amount is available to support groups providing SEND-focused summer holiday activities to reflect the additional support required. To claim the SEND rate, at least 50% of attendees must be SEND.
Programme Dates: Delivery for the programme must take place during the summer holiday, which falls between Saturday 23 rd July 2022 – Monday 31st August 2022.
What They Will Fund
Funding can be used for a variety of things, but they would expect it to fall within two broad categories:
- To support the holiday offer itself (e.g. setting up new provision, paying for additional staff)
- To support quality improvement of provision (e.g. bringing in sports coaches, establishing partnerships with catering organisations, catering equipment etc.)
What They Won’t Fund
- Activities where a profit will be distributed for private gain or projects that have no charitable or community element.
- Religious or political activity (they are able to fund religious organisations if they are providing benefit for the wider community).
- Activity that replaces government funding or is a statutory responsibility, for example, they can only fund school activities that are additional to the curriculum.
- Activities that benefit individuals, rather than a wider community.
- Retrospective costs and loan repayments.
- Expenditure or activities that have already taken place outside of the funding period.
- Foreign travel
For more information, visit https://eastendcf.org/tower-hamlets-grants/