Children’s Summer 2024 Holidays Activity Scheme

Luma Creations’ Summer Healthy Activities and Food (HAF) programme for children aged 7-11 will be running this year, Monday to Thursday for four weeks, starting on 29 July 2024.

Whilst Luma has chosen to predominantly work with children who receive free school meals, or who have special educational needs, we have also focused on other local children who may be vulnerable for other reasons, such as environment, or race. There are many projects delivering these programmes around us, but our specialism is that by using creative activities, we offer a focused and supportive scheme to a small, and concentrated group of young people – we do not allow more than twenty participants in sessions.

 

Summer HAF activitiesOur young people experience a range of creative and wellbeing activities, delivered by a highly skilled and dedicated team of workshop leaders, food providers and supporting staff. And every day, they receive free snacks, drinks and a lunch that is healthy and balanced. They get the chance to experience arts and crafts, drumming, creative writing, circus skills, nutrition-focused healthy cooking, dance, hip-hop and beatboxing, meditation, gardening, film making, and educational visits to exhibitions, etc. Over the past few years we have worked with over 100 young people, but one of the things we are most proud of, is that over 70% of participants have attended previously.

However, this summer, the government and the funders have now insisted that all schemes use an online registration and booking website in order to sign up for all holiday schemes funded by them.

Summer HAF activities

If you would like your child to attend, you will now need to go to the Luma Creations listing on the eequ website by following this link:

https://eequ.org/experience/9701

This will take you to the Luma Creations listing where you need to click on ‘BOOK’ to start the process. You will then be asked to register your details and click on the dates you want your child(ren) to attend over the summer. Don’t be concerned about any questions of payment – ours is a free scheme. Also, if you sign your child up, but then your child cannot attend, you must cancel through the website, as we cannot do this for you. If we find ourselves in a situation where children who have booked, but then don’t turn up, there is the very real possibility that we will not get the funding in future. We will have a waiting list for if people drop out, but it will be first come first served, so don’t hang around if you want your child(ren) to attend.

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