{"id":20420,"date":"2026-09-10T10:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=20420"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:41:19","slug":"devon-haf-celebration-and-impact-awards-2026-voting-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/devon-haf-celebration-and-impact-awards-2026-voting-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon HAF celebration and impact awards 2026 &#8211; voting now open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Help us celebrate the incredible people and organisations making a difference to children and families across Devon through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/child-family-support\/family-support\/haf-programme\/\">Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, hundreds of dedicated staff, volunteers, and organisations come together to make the Devon HAF programme a success. From providing fun and enriching activities to nutritious meals and safe, welcoming spaces where children can thrive, our providers make a lasting difference to the lives of children, young people, and families across Devon.<\/p>\n<p>The Devon HAF Celebration &amp; Impact Awards are an opportunity to recognise and celebrate these incredible achievements, showcase the positive impact being made in communities across the county, raise awareness of the programme for those who may not yet have benefited, and thank the amazing people whose passion, creativity, and commitment help make HAF such a success.<\/p>\n<p>Our expert panel has carefully reviewed all award submissions, including videos, supporting statements, and feedback gathered during Easter and Summer monitoring visits. Following this process, a shortlist of nominees has been selected for each category.<\/p>\n<p><strong>View this year&#8217;s shortlisted nominees and cast your vote today.\u00a0Voting closes on 16 October 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Winners announced at the Awards Evening on 29 October 2026.<\/p>\n<h2>Vote now!<\/h2>\n<p>Voting is open now \u2013 cast your vote today! <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.cloud.microsoft\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=gzehjWjLP0S7S5l_d_1b-3Jw-wSN9W5DlT8b_tpk_wJUMFExRFBLS0JZWVlZS0MzTERMUTIyTkZZNy4u\" rel=\"noopener\">Devon HAF Celebration &amp; Impact Awards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit the HAF website: <a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.devon.gov.uk%2Fchildren-families-education%2Fchild-family-support%2Ffamily-support%2Fhaf-programme%2Finformation-for-parents%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ceducate.earlyyearscommunication-mailbox%40devon.gov.uk%7Cde38ca7d75084567c78108df0cd62fd4%7C8da13783cb68443fbb4b997f77fd5bfb%7C0%7C0%7C639243786196606854%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=mp82uzWYDDWJLfAgRXoJppRH6Wucccla7bjnCpIwOp4%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Winter HAF 2026 &#8211; Children, families and education<\/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>Help us celebrate the incredible people and organisations making a difference to children and families across Devon through the Holiday Activities and Food  programme. View this year&#8217;s shortlisted nominees and cast your vote today.\u00a0Voting closes on 16 October 2026.<\/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-20420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-20 09:13:51","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\/20420","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=20420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20422,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20420\/revisions\/20422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}