This page gives:
key dates for groups delivering at Winter 2024
eligible days for HAF funded FFA sessions
the dates of school holidays in Birmingham and Solihull in 2024
explains the limits HAF funding places on the duration and number of funded sessions.
Key Dates for Providers
Winter Holiday Briefings Weds 20 and Thurs 21 November
Outline of provision due Friday 22 November
Offer letter from CQ Tuesday 26 November
Sign and return offer letter Friday 29 November
Sessions will be advertised from Monday 2 December
First payments from CQ Friday 6 December
Delivery of sessions 23 December – 3 January 2025
Registers and claims to CQ by Friday 10 January 2025
Second payments from CQ by Friday 31 January 2025
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Which Days can HAF fund Fit for All Sessions?
Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) funding provides term-end school holiday physical activity and healthy food for children and young people who are eligible for Free School Meals. (It can also provide similar support for participants with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and vulnerable children, many of whom are also eligible for FSM)=, whether they qualify on this basis or not.) HAF funding can only be used to provide Fit for All activities and healthy food during school holidays and on days when participants would otherwise be at school, ie not at weekends or on Bank Holidays.
The eligible dates during the Winter school holidays are
Monday 23 December and Tuesday 24 December
Friday 27 December
Monday 30 December and Tuesday 31 December
Thursday 2 January and Friday 3 January
Term-end School Holidays 2024/25
Term End School Holidays in Birmingham and Solihull are:
- Easter 2024 Monday 25th March – Friday 5th April 2024
- Summer Holiday 2024 Monday 22nd July – Friday 30th August 2024
- Christmas 2024 Monday 23rd December 2024 – Friday 3rd January 2025
Time and Duration of HAF-funded sessions
There is no limit on the time of day at which sessions can take place on eligible days – although most HAF funded sessions take place at some point between 9am and 4pm.
HAF funding will not cover sessions of more than 4 hours duration (because 4 hours is the maximum length of funded sessions any participant is allowed in one day). This does not stop groups running sessions of 1.5, 2 or 3 hours etc if this is what best meets the needs of participants. Groups can also run sessions that last longer than 4 hours, but only 4 hours will be eligible for funding.
Groups can run as many sessions as they want per day. So for example, a group could run 3 sessions of two hours duration at 10-12noon 1-3pm and 4-6pm on each weekday – and all of these sessions would be eligible for funding so long as no child attends more than their allowed maximum of four hours funded session in the day.