Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme

The HAF Programme in Kent provides healthy, nutritious food and exciting, enriching activities for children and young people during the school holidays. It also supports their physical and mental health and wellbeing. Families of children aged 4 to 16 years, who receive benefits-related free school meals (FSM), can access the opportunities for free during the Easter, Summer, and Christmas holidays. More information is available on the HAF Programme website.

All eligible families will be issued an electronic EVoucher from Wednesday 2 July 2025. These can be used by the families to find a local HAF Programme for summer 2025 and request a place. It enables the HAF Programme partners to know that the child is eligible for a free place, without the need for further eligibility checks. Most families will be familiar with receiving KCC funded electronic supermarket vouchers from the same Evoucher system.

Actions to take for social workers and early help workers:

1. To ensure that as many children as possible benefit from the HAF Programme, please can social workers and early help workers ensure that the families they are working with, whose children receive FSM, are aware of HAF Programme and consider enrolling their child(ren).
2. Also, please can social workers and early help workers consider the other children they are working with, who do not receive FSM, and determine whether they would benefit from being able to attend a HAF Programme this summer. To enable them to access a free HAF Programme place, please review the list of summer HAF Programmes or email KentHAF@theeducationpeople.org for details of Programmes in your area. Then discuss it with the family, fill out the Summer 2025 HAF Programme EVoucher form with the details of the child or young person who requires a HAF Programme eligibility EVoucher. Please complete this form by the end of the day on Friday 18 July 2025.