Holiday Activities and Food Programme 2025/26

Tender description

Cheshire East Council is seeking to commission a number of providers to deliver face to face school holiday activities for young people in Cheshire East. The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme is a ‘Department for Education’ initiative enabling local authorities to coordinate a programme that provides school age young people between the ages of 4 – 16, and up to age 18 for eligible SEND young people, healthy food and enriching activities during the summer and winter holidays. In addition to the primary delivery periods, we would like bidders to include programmes over the October and February half terms. Depending on DfE approval and funding availability, the programme may deliver in the 2025 October and 2026 February half term breaks Service vision: We currently have an operational service across Cheshire East, which we have the desire to extend and enhance. To improve the existing service, we will focus on the following priorities: 1. SEND 2. Teen 3. New geographical coverage 4. New activity types Tenders will be accepted under two LOTS – LOT 1 is for providers who are offering general HAF provision. LOT 2 is restricted to applications for specialist provision e.g., SEND, teen. LOT 2 provides access to higher individual session costings to reflect the additional costing/provision that may be needed to support these groups of young people. Providers who are providing SEND provision within their wider offer (incurring no additional costs), please select LOT 1. The Cheshire East Holiday Activities and Food Programme provision currently falls within the following broad categories of activity offer and operate in the following general locations. Current activities and locations: - General sports camps LOT 1 Crewe, Macclesfield, Congleton, Sandbach, Nantwich, Middlewich, Holmes Chapel - Generic holiday camps LOT 1 Crewe, Macclesfield, Congleton, Scholar Green, Wilmslow - Creative holiday camps LOT 1 Sandbach - Farm based holiday camps LOT 1 & LOT 2 Haslington - Teen provision (LOT 2) – sports based & day out event activities Crewe, Macclesfield, Congleton, Nantwich, Holmes Chapel - SEND (LOT 2) Crewe, Wrenbury and day-out based provision across Cheshire East Proposed activities and geographical coverage The Cheshire East Holiday Activities and Food Programme would like to expand their current offer and introduce new proposed activity provision – the programme would welcome tenders that offer a focus on, but not limited to the following - - Art and craft - Dance and movement - Drama - Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) - Languages - Specialist sports - Animal and nature-based holiday camps New geographical coverage refers to locations not currently supported. Tenders will be welcomed from all locations and for all activities, but priorities will be given to the SEND, teen, new geographical coverage and new activity types. This will be reflected in the weightings in your pricing/proposal schedule. Keywords: Holiday Activity, Holiday, Free school meals, school, SEND, HAF