Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme funding, Summer 2024

Grants are awarded to hubs based upon the number of children attending each session. We may apply a maximum grant amount per applicant dependent on budgeting.

Funding is £22 per CYP/ per day for up to 24 days.

Please note that the grant funding is a contribution and may not cover all costs associated with operating your programme, in which case Lambeth Council encourages you to seek additional funding elsewhere.

Approximately 85% of children attending your programme must be classified as eligible for the provision i.e. aged, 4-16 years (Reception to Year 11) and in receipt of benefit-related free school meals. 

Hubs can spend up to a maximum of 15% of their programme funding to provide free holiday club places for children not in receipt of benefit-related free school meals but considered by the programme to be in need of this provision.  You will be asked to confirm that the service will be free of charge to eligible children/ children who fall within the 15% flexible allocation. 

Lambeth Council will work with each applicant individually to access attendance capacity and establish funding levels. We will look at previous holiday monitoring returns to also help establish a baseline. We aim to ensure that we can fund as much provision as possible across the borough therefore, depending on the number of applications we receive, we may not be able to fund any programme for more than 4 weeks during the summer and one week during spring and winter.

Payment of grants

For the summer holiday period, Lambeth Council will be paying 80% of the grant prior to the holiday period and 20% after the holiday period (based upon numbers achieved and the submission of the completed Registration and Attendance spreadsheet). Successful applicants must return their signed grant agreement(s) and invoice(s) by the date outlined in the grant agreement. 

Please see the below table for when the grant funding will be paid to successful applicants and the conditions that must be made to receive payment. Grant offer letters will be sent out in May 2024. 

Please note late submission of documents and data will lead to a delay in grant payments.