Food and Fun Programme
Working together to promote healthy living, positive well-being and improve engagement with education and the school during the summer holidays.
What is Food and Fun?
Food and Fun (previously known as the school holiday enrichment programme) is a school-based education programme that provides healthy meals, food and nutrition education, physical activity and enrichment sessions to children in areas of social deprivation during the school summer holidays.
Starting as a pilot run by Cardiff Council in 2015, Food and Fun has developed into a national, fully funded Welsh Government programme administered by the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA).
Food and Fun is an innovative partnership which is coordinated in Flintshire by the Health and Well-being Promoting Schools team supported by Newydd, Gwella, schools and dietetics (Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board).
Each participating school is open for a total of 12 days over 3 weeks in the summer holidays, with capacity for up to 40 children per cohort. The core daily components involve: a free breakfast, a minimum of one hour physical activity, nutrition education and free lunch. On one day each week, family members are invited to join the children for lunch.
In 2024, 205 schools delivered the programme and provided over 13,040 places for children each day that it ran. Food and Fun was delivered in 2018 for the first time with two schools and has expanded to ten schools in 2024.
What are Food and Fun’s intended outcomes?
- Improved Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
- Educational Attainment and School Engagement
- Improved Aspirations
- Improved Physical Activity
- Improved Dietary Behaviour
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