Tackling the Holiday Hunger, Holiday Inactivity and Holiday Isolation Faced by Some of the Poorest Children in Leeds, and Often Their Families, Too
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About Healthy Holidays Healthy Holidays is now in its third year – tackling the holiday hunger, holiday inactivity and holiday isolation faced by some of the poorest children in Leeds, and often their families, too. Leeds Community Foundation delivers this programme with support from Leeds City Council, and from local food partners FareShare Yorkshire and Rethink Food. In 2019, Leeds Healthy Holidays reached 5,441 young people and 903 parents/carers through 77 community-based partners delivering a range of fun and engaging activities, all of which included at least one nutritious meal. Healthy Holidays 2020 – Covid Response In the face of Covid-19 crisis, Leeds Community Foundation (LCF) and Leeds City Council have been actively working with food provision charities and local community organisations on an Emergency Food Provision Process to deliver much-needed food and support to these vulnerable children, their families and other vulnerable adults. As an immediate response to lockdown, LCF funded 31 community organisations to provide “Healthy Holidays Covid-19 Response” projects; these have generally provided food parcels alongside a combination of online activities and activity boxes delivered to the doorstep. Activities vary with each project, and includes sport, physical activity, creative arts, cookery, indoor/outdoor gardening and mental wellbeing support. Some groups are also using group chat, video-conferencing and livestreaming to engage and support their children and families. Projects have been encouraged to post activity on social media using the hashtag #HHLeedsCovid19. LCF secured additional funding from Direct Line & National Emergency Fund (NET), and successfully secured funding from Department for Education for provision during the summer holidays. Healthy Holidays 2020 – Summer Holiday Provision Summer provision will be delivered across three settings: schools, LCC community hubs and community groups. Projects will share their activity on social media #healthyholidaysleeds We are working with Council colleagues to maximise a joined-up approach amongst schools, community hubs and community groups in order to: a) Minimise duplication of support for Children & Young People b) Maximise the number of vulnerable Children & Young People supported c) Encourage local collaboration and co-ordination to share limited resources over summer and into the new school year. Summer provision will include a range of modified online and offline activities with some on-site activity (at schools, hubs, community facilities or in outdoor spaces) that can be done safely by children and young people and delivered safely by staff/volunteers. All projects will deliver in line with Covid-19 safety requirements. Should the guidance change over the holidays, they will adapt their activities accordingly. 1 This Update Revised 16th July 2020 The following community organisations, schools and community hubs have been offered Healthy Holidays funding to support provision during the summer holidays. Contact detail information will be circulated shortly. Community Groups Postcode Ward CATCH Leeds LS8 3QY Gipton & Harehills Creative Frame City-wide DAMASQ LS9 7PS Burmantofts & Richmond Hill Fall Into Place Theatre LS14 1BW Killingbeck & Seacroft Getaway Girls LS15 8RD Cross Gates & Whinmoor GIPSIL LS8 5AQ Gipton & Harehills Gipton Together LS8 3PJ Gipton & Harehills Guiseley Community Foundation LS1 97LF Otley & Yeadon Heads Together Productions City-wide Health for All LS1 04JG Middleton Park Holbeck Together LS11 9NR Beeston & Holbeck Hunslet Club LS10 1BP Hunslet & Riverside Invizible Circle Education LS8 5DB Gipton & Harehills Kirkstall Valley Development Trust LS5 3BL Kirkstall Left Bank Leeds LS6 1LJ Headingley & Hyde Park Lemon Balm Therapeutic Horticulture CIC LS7 2QU Moortown Let's Do More CIC LS11 6AE Hunslet & Riverside LS14 Trust LS14 1BT Killingbeck & Seacroft New Wortley Community Association LS12 1LZ Armley Pingpong4u City-wide Reestablish LS11 0AB Beeston & Holbeck Seacroft Community On Top LS14 6RD Killingbeck & Seacroft Seagulls Re-Use Ltd LS3 1JL Armley Shantona Women and Family Centre LS85 AW Gipton & Harehills St Cross Amazing Youth Club Ls10 4ht Middleton Park St Vincent's Support Centre LS9 9LF Burmantofts & Richmond Hill St. Paul's, Ireland Wood LS16 6BS Weetwood Team Creative ls16 5he Kirkstall The Conservation Volunteers LS10 1RS Temple Newsam The Old Fire Station LS9 6NL Gipton & Harehills School(s) Postcode Ward Bramley Cluster LS13 1DQ Bramley & Stanningley Cross Gates Primary School LS15 7NB Killingbeck & Seacroft Castleton Primary school LS12 1JZ Armley Bramley Park Academy LS13 3DP Bramley & Stanningley 2 This Update Revised 16th July 2020 Leeds Learning Alliance LS17 5DJ Moortown Reach Primary LS11 6NN Hunslet & Riverside East Leeds Academy Ls14 6ty Killingbeck & Seacroft Hovingham Primary School LS8 3QY Gipton & Harehills West Oaks SEN Specialist School and College LS6 2ST Little London & Woodhouse Mount St Mary's Catholic High School LS98LA Burmantofts & Richmond Hill Grimes Dyke Primary School LS14 5BY Cross Gates & Whinmoor Broomfield South SILC LS10 3JP Middleton Park Richmond Hill Academy LS98 PN Burmantofts & Richmond Hill West SILC LS28 6HL Bramley & Stanningley Community Hub Centre Postcode Ward The Compton Centre Community Hub LS9 7BG Gipton & Harehills Dewsbury Road Community Hub LS11 6PF Hunslet & Riverside Armley Community Hub LS12 1UQ Armley Seacroft Community Hub LS14 6JD Killingbeck & Seacrift Hunslet Community Hub @ Slung Low LS11 9QX Beeston & Holbeck The Reginald Centre Community Hub LS7 3EX Chapel Allerton Bramley Community Hub and library LS13 3ND Bramley & Stanningley A referral system is operating for the Community Hubs. Provision is for primary school age children only. Contact: Tom Booth [email protected] Some projects are providing online or PDF resources which will be made more widely available: more details to follow. The Leeds School Uniform Exchange is a project launched by Zero Waste Leeds with funding from Leeds Community Foundation & Leeds City Council as part of the Healthy Holidays programme. To find out more about the school uniform re-use network across Leeds they are developing across Leeds, click here or search for the Leeds School Uniform Exchange on Facebook To find out more, follow on Twitter @LeedsCommFound or sign up for the Leeds Community Foundation newsletter https://leedscf.org.uk/stay-in-touch/ If you have any questions, please contact [email protected] 3 This Update Revised 16th July 2020 .