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Time to check out kids’ holiday activities clubs this Easter
The government-funded Holiday Activities and Food Programme returns in April, offering a wide range of sport, music and fun, plus free meals, for eligible children. HAF provides families receiving benefits-related free school meals access to holiday programmes where children can … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon, Easter, HAF, Holiday Activities and Food Programme
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Council scheme offers kids summer play clubs at 71 venues
By ELSIE GOWERS Thousands of free spaces at holiday clubs are available this summer for children and young people in Croydon who are in receipt of benefits-related free school meals. Croydon Council is working with 56 organisations across 71 sites … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, HAF, Holiday Activities and Food
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Children left to wait over council delays on summer camp funds
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Voluntary groups who are supposed to be hosting summer camps for the borough’s children complain that they have not received their promised grants from the council and Mayor Perry has ignored their pleas for help. By our … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Charity, Children's Services, Community associations, Croydon Council, Education, Mayor Jason Perry, Schools, Sport
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Cougars, Croydon Council, HAF, Holiday Activities and Food Programme, Holiday Activity and Food, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Monks Hill, Tory
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Summer holiday schemes suffer from council’s missing links
Croydon’s holiday activity and food clubs are open for booking – though with just days before the schools break up for the long summer holiday when the schemes are supposed to get underway, there’s a dearth of detail available on … Continue reading
Bookings are open for 70 children’s Easter activity centres
The Easter holidays will see more than 70 activity clubs operate across the borough, offering free places for children and young people in receipt of free school meals. Backed with a £350,000 grant from Government, the clubs are being run … Continue reading
