{"id":18912,"date":"2025-11-06T11:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=18912"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:06:17","slug":"holiday-activities-and-food-haf-winter-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/holiday-activities-and-food-haf-winter-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday, Activities and Food (HAF) winter programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to let you know that our winter 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/child-family-support\/family-support\/haf-programme\/\">Holiday Activities &amp; Food Programme<\/a> is now live and there are plenty of spaces available for children in Devon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/were-taking-christmas-bookings-for-the-holiday-activities-and-food-programme\/\">We&#8217;re now taking bookings for the Holiday Activities and Food Programme for this winter &#8211; news<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scheme is for children of school age, in receipt of benefit-related free school meals. In addition, we also provide \u2018extended criteria&#8217; places for children with an EHCP, looked after, or previously looked after children, and young carers.<\/p>\n<p>For the winter delivery we also have some opportunities for family pantomime tickets available to book via the <a href=\"https:\/\/eequ.org\/devonhaf\" rel=\"noopener\">booking system<\/a> and, as always, a wide range of fantastic face to face provision for eligible children.<\/p>\n<p>Some schemes this year also include hampers, and all provide either a hot or cold nutritious meal, alongside a variety of physical activities.<\/p>\n<p>Please could you spread the news to your families of eligible children that you work with, so that as many can access schemes as possible.<\/p>\n<p>If you are posting about any fantastic HAF provisions on social media, either that you are delivering yourselves or have links with, please also remember to use the official hashtags #DevonHAF25 and #HAF2025 which will maximise reach for family awareness.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please get in touch: <a href=\"mailto:haf@devon.gov.uk\">haf@devon.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13427\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2022\/12\/HAF-logo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"HAF logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2022\/12\/HAF-logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2022\/12\/HAF-logo.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to let you know that our winter 2025 Holiday Activities &amp; Food Programme is now live and there are plenty of spaces available for children in Devon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 09:42:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18912"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18917,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912\/revisions\/18917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}