In 2019 the Happy Healthy Holidays consortium secured Department for Education funding and awarded grants totalling over £1.2m to community organisations, schools, faith groups and children's centres to deliver up to 16 days of free, quality assured holiday club activity with healthy meals, nutrition education, enrichment and physical activities in Birmingham.
Together, 153 Happy Healthy Holidays clubs in Birmingham delivered 90,270 activity sessions with meals to 13,665 children and young people during the 2019 summer holidays. 5,436 of the activity days were specifically for children with Special Education Needs. Collectively, 695 staff completed training across induction, allergy, safeguarding, cooking and hygiene.
