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In the 2020 school holidays, we will work in 4 locations across Manchester & Liverpool providing free holiday activities and a daily nutritious meal for 10-18 yr. olds. We will grow 4 community organisations to run more holiday programmes in the future. Together we can end the holiday hunger gap.
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Beneficiaries
Situation
We are responding to the Holiday Gap. The gap is the cumulative impact on children of school holidays spent: • without enough good food, (no free school meals); • without enough physical activity, (too few free activity programmes); • with too little positive social interaction Research shows that by the start of the school year the gap has widened the differential in readiness to learn between many poor children and their more affluent peers.
Solution
Our project will bring together 4 community organisations to each provide for around 40 children a day: i. 4 hours a day of Health Enhancing Physical Activity: reducing inactivity. ii. At least one nutritious meal a day: reducing hunger. iii. Training for local volunteers in food hygiene and modelling positive behaviours. We will support the programme providers to develop a sustainability plan.
