Holiday Activities & Food Provision
We Are proud To Be A Nottinghamshire Holiday Activities and Food Programme (HAF) Provider
- To support children to eat healthily
- To support children to be active during school holidays
- To support children in their understanding of health and nutrition
- To support families to be engaged with local support services
The Provision
Express Coaching Services Ltd has been delivering the Holiday Activity and Food provision in the Mansfield areas of Bellamy, Bull Farm and Asquith for the last three years. We offer a range of activities from Arts and Crafts, Food and Nutrition and sports to ensure our activities are inclusive and enjoyable for all.
We have on average 30-35 children attend each of our three sites, we program manage the whole program across our three sites from liaising with the schools, applying for bids, project managing each sites delivery’s, with execution of delivery on each day.
The Holiday Activities and Food Programme (HAF) is funded by the Department for Education. The programme aims to support the wellbeing of children, focusing on physical and mental wellbeing by providing various activities during school holidays.
We run free face-to-face sessions for children and young people aged 6 to 13 years and receiving benefits-related free school meals. There are also places available to families with low income, and to children and young people who may face social isolation without the support of HAF. These places are granted individually.
Each session includes at least one meal; this may be breakfast or lunch, depending on the programme offered. Express Coaching offers both Breakfast and Lunch on all of our Camps.
The aims of Nottinghamshire Holiday Activities and Food Programme:
- To support children to eat healthily.
- To support children to be active during school holidays.
- To support children in their understanding of health and nutrition.
- To support families to be engaged with local support services.
We work closely with the school, local company’s such as Tesco’s and Morrisons to assist with
food bags and in-kind funding for the sites. This is a whole community approach.
The aims of Nottinghamshire Holiday Activities and Food Programme:
- To support children to eat healthily.
- To support children to be active during school holidays.
- To support children in their understanding of health and nutrition.
- To support families to be engaged with local support services.
We work closely with the school, local company’s such as Tesco’s and Morrisons to assist with food bags and in-kind funding for the sites. This is a whole community approach.
Other HAF Support
Whilst we deliver our own three provisions in Mansfield. We also support with providing coaching and support staff with Blidworth Oaks and Heathlands school joint HAF program. This is a key partnership that has grown over time, and we work closely to ensure we can work together collaboratively. Feedback from the program is below:
Thank you for another excellent partnership between ourselves and Express Coaching in delivering our HAF Programme. The staff as always were fantastic, and the children had a great time. As always Gary and Seb are the stars of the show, and the children absolutely love them!
Having those familiar faces on our programme makes it so much easier because the children know them, so they feel comfortable and know the expectations involved so this really does please us every time we run these events. – School Sport and Extended Services Coordinator
Oak Tree Leisure Centre is another HAF provider whereby we supply coaches to their holiday provision, their choice of activities is the popular wheelchair sports. We have worked closely with Oak Tree LC for the last two years.
Working collaboratively with local providers is key for us to make difference to many young people through sports and activities, removing barriers and consistency of our delivery is key to this.
Contact Us
gail@expresscoaching.co.uk
07886 227989
Mansfield UK
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Company Information
Express Coaching Services Ltd - 11536442
VAT Number - 305 4032 52