Tender: Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme Framework Agreement – Southend-on-Sea 2025

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Southend-on-Sea City Council is seeking a supplier for a Framework Agreement to deliver the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme in Southend-on-Sea. The programme, funded by the Department for Education to provide activities and food to vulnerable children during school holiday periods, must provide access to holiday activity programmes of at least 4 hours per day for 4 days a week for 4 weeks in the summer, plus one week at Easter and one week at Christmas. Provision must be inclusive and accessible and offered to all benefits-related free school meals (FSM) children of statutory school age in Southend-on-Sea. Minimum standards for high-quality delivery include healthy food meeting the school food standards, enriching activities, physical activities and nutritional education, with expected outcomes that children will eat more healthily, be more active, take part in engaging activities, be safe and not isolated, gain greater knowledge of health and nutrition, be more engaged with school and other services, and have greater awareness of holiday club provision; further details are in the Invitation to Tender documentation pack.