Holiday activities and food (HAF)
The Blackpool Holiday Activities and Food programme (HAF) is funded by the government and provides healthy food and activities for children who receive free school meals.
We work with local providers to provide a wide range of activities, health and nutrition information, and free healthy meals each day to children and young people.
Department for Education (DFE) funding covers the HAF Programme for the Easter, Christmas and summer holidays, when funding permits Blackpool Council will endeavor to fund the remaining school holidays to support the overwhelming need in the town.
Partners
We are working with local schools, voluntary and community organisations to deliver the HAF programme to eligible pupils across Blackpool.
Last summer we supported more than 2,000 eligible children and offered families a safe environment to be active, educated and entertained through enrichment activities as well as providing healthy meals.
The video below celebrates the great work of Blackpool Council and its partners in delivering the HAF project and highlights the successful partnership working and commitment to supporting our children.
Details
Places on the holiday schemes are available free of charge to children in Reception to Year 11 who receive benefits-related free school meals. Check if your child can get free school meals.Â
The programme provides children with delicious, healthy meals, and it encourages them to get active, learn new things, make friends and have fun.Â
All bookings are being made directly with the organisations running the holiday clubs. If you aren’t sure if you are eligible, please speak to your child’s school.
Our Providers
Most providers offer a similar range of activities, including sports and games, arts and crafts, performance arts, music, cookery, and trips.
@TheGrange also hold family focused activities, while Active Blackpool and Blackpool Football Club Community Trust primarily offer sports-based programmes.
The Boathouse Youth, Blackpool Football Club Community Trust and Active Blackpool also offer SEND specific clubs.Â
Blackpool Carers activities are available exclusively for young carers who attend the Carers Centre.
Please contact the individual providers using the contact details below for further information.
Active Blackpool
Email Address: active.blackpool@
blackpool.gov.uk
At The Grange
Email address: thegrange@groundwork
.org.uk
Blackpool Boys and Girls Club
Email Address: penny@epscic.org
Blackpool Football Club Community TrustÂ
Email Address: office@bfcct.co.uk / camp@bfcct.co.uk
Magic Club
Email Address: info@magicclub.org.uk
Active BlackpoolÂ
- Blackpool Sports Centre
- Palatine Leisure CentreÂ
Blackpool Football Club Community Trust
- Anchorsholme AcademyÂ
- Armfield AcademyÂ
- Aspire AcademyÂ
- AVR DanceÂ
- Blackpool FC Community Trust Bloomfield RoadÂ
- Claremont Park & Childrens Centre
- Highfield Leadership AcademyÂ
- Montgomery AcademyÂ
- Moor Park Leisure CentreÂ
- Park Community AcademyÂ
- Revoe Learning AcademyÂ
- Roseacre Primary AcademyÂ
- South Shore AcademyÂ
- Stanley ParkÂ
- Stanley Primary AcademyÂ
- Unity AcademyÂ
- Waterloo Primary AcademyÂ
- Westminster Primary Academy
 Boathouse Youth
- Blackpool Gateway Academy
- Boundary Primary School
- Christ The King Catholic Academy
- Grange Park Youth Centre
- Layton Primary School
- The Boathouse Youth Bloomfield
- Thames Primary Academy
- Whiteholme Youth Centre
EPSCIC (Boys & Girls Club)
- Talbot and Brunswick
- Mereside
1. House of Wingz / Skool of Street
2. Magic Club
3. @thegrange
4. Rosscon Training Limited
5. Blackpool Carers Centre
Find out more
If you’d like to know more about the HAF programme, please email publichealth@blackpool.gov.uk, visit the DfE’s Holiday Activities and Food programme webpage or search #BlackpoolHAF on X (Twitter).
If you need advice on eating better, visit the Healthier Families page on the NHS website.
Take a look at our popular Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme #BlackpoolHAF.
The holiday activities and food programme (HAF) is being funded by the Department for Education. The aim of the programme is to make free holiday places available to children receiving benefits-related free school meals for the equivalent of at least four hours a day, four days a week and for six weeks a year.
The Department for Education (DfE) funding covers the HAF Programme for the Easter, Christmas and summer holidays, , when funding permits Blackpool Council will endeavour to fund the remaining school holidays to support the overwhelming need in the town.