CO0587 - Essex ActivAte Programme (HAF) 2025

Essex County Council · awarded 5 March 2025 · delivered in England

Who

Buyer	Essex County Council Chelmsford
Suppliers	3food4u AQ Basketball ARTS OUTBURST LTD ATF Southend Ace Music Therapy CIC Active Essex Foundation AlphaBake Cookery Alternative Movement LTD Amazing Activities Ltd BWild Adventures Banana Moon Colchester Holiday Club Blackwater Gymnastics Club Braintree District Museum Trust Butterflies Club C.I.C CHRISTINA MARKS SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS CMXSC Camp 4 Champs Canvey Island Youth Project Cast A Thought Castle Point & Rochford School Sport Partnership Chafford Tots to Teens Childcare Services Ltd Changing Lives Community Services Chelmsford City Football Club Foundation Chelmsford Sport and Athletics Centre Chelmsford Theatre Child & Provide Clacton Kayak Rental Ltd Colchester United Community Foundation ComputerXplorers Crafty Katie Ltd Disability4Sport Essex Elite Sports Academy ltd Essex Kids Camp Essex Music Service, Essex County Council Essex Professional Coaching EssexBoysandGirlsClubs Everbody Loves Music CIC Family first Football Fun Factory (Franchising) Limited Fusion Lifestyle Future Makers Limited Futures-Essex GB Fitness / The Lighthouse Get With The Kids VIbe Go Bananas Colchester Limited Grangewaters Happy Healthy Minds Harlow LCEP Headway Sports Holloway Coaching LTD InterAct (Chelmsford) Ltd JM & MB Coaching Ltd TA Premier Education Jack Of All Sports Jtd arts ltd Kidbusterz ltd KidzActive Kinetix Academy CIC Little Musketeers Ltd Little Scrummers Rugby M.R.F.A. MALEARN LIMITED Making It Mindful Matipo Arts CIC Mega Camps Ltd Mercury Theatre MiniMe Mindfulness® Mistley Kids Club Ltd Mobile Gym Fitness Monarchs Childcare Ltd Motivated Minds MultiCoach LTD Multisports for Schools Mushroom Theatre Company Ltd Next Thing Education Camps LTD Nurture Den Olivers Lodge POP Essex Playpalz Party and Softplay Centre ltd Premier Education - Uttlesford area Premier Education Harlow Premier Sportscoach Solutions Rise Sports Ltd Robwhen Coaching LTD trading as Super Star Sport OEL Rosedan Breakfast and After School club SRR Elite Cheerleading SSS ESSEX LTD Safe Haven & Respite Environment (SHARE) School's Out Activities Silverbirch Animal Therapy S.A.T CIC South Woodham Ferrers Leisure Centre Southend United Community and Educational Trust Splat Club Sports Coaching Specialists (SCS) SportsCool West Essex Sportscool EL St Helena Creative Services CIC Super Star Sport The Active Wellbeing Society Ltd The Ark Family Resource Centre The Future of Sport CIC The Holiday Club The Megacentre Rayleigh The Underdog Crew Tiny rugby School Unleash your drive Whipper-snappers Daycare Nursery and Kids Club Xtra Time Sports Development LTD YMCA Essex Yard Fitness Zaza dance time for change kids
Category	services
Classification	Holiday centre and holiday home services CPV 55240000
Notice published	26 March 2025

What it is for

The Department for Education has provided Essex County Council with funding in order to deliver the holiday activity and food programme (HAF) across Essex during the Easter, Summer and Winter school holidays. Active Essex will be managing the programme on behalf of Essex County Council. Active Essex and Essex County Council will also be managing the HAF programme on behalf of Thurrock Council. Across Essex and Thurrock the programme is called Essex ActvAte. \r \r Essex ActivAte will engage and support young people and families who are eligible for benefits based free school meals and families most in need. The programme will provide free and inclusive holiday clubs across the county that will include a range of fun physical and enrichment activities, a free nutritious meal, nutritional education and mentoring and support for the young person and whole family. The programme aims to improve health generally, including, crucially, mental health and aim to provide the families with the knowledge and support to live healthier, happier lives. \r \r We are looking for delivery partners or consortiums who can lead and deliver Essex ActivAte clubs across Essex and Thurrock during the main school holidays. \r \r The Essex ActivAte programme has now been running for 3 years, working with over 300 delivery partners to offer over 150,000 free spaces and hot meals per year. Over the next year of 2025, it is our aim to extend the programme so that every young person who is eligible for benefits based free school meals or is in need of this holiday support has the opportunity to engage in a local club. \r \r Key outcomes of each Essex ActivAte club are:\r • To provide free and inclusive holiday activity clubs for eligible young people\r • To provide a safe environment for…

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