Funding to support holiday activities across North Yorkshire
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The Department for Education is providing funding to local authorities to coordinate a holiday programme combining the provision of healthy food and enriching activities to eligible children and young people.
North Yorkshire Council has commissioned North Yorkshire Together, a partnership between Rural Arts, North Yorkshire Sport and North Yorkshire Youth, as lead provider for the programme in North Yorkshire.
North Yorkshire Together seeks applications from voluntary, community, public sector and private organisations (including limited companies and self-employed freelancers) to enable delivery of a rich and diverse offer in locations across the county.
Participating as a FEAST Provider will be of interest to existing holiday activity providers, schools, sports coaches, creative and performing arts providers and more!
FEAST is a programme for eligible children from Reception to Year 11 inclusive (up to Year 13 if SEND).
Any child who receive benefits-related Free School Meals in North Yorkshire is eligible for a free FEAST place.
Benefits-related Free School Meals (FSM) are available to pupils if their parents are in receipt of one of the qualifying benefits, and have a claim verified by their school or local authority.
Note: All children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 in England’s state-funded schools receive a free meal under the universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) policy. Infant pupils who receive a free meal under UIFSM must also otherwise be eligible for benefits-related FSM to be able to access a free place on the FEAST programme.
Schools, at their discretion, are able to make additional children eligible by exception. For more information, read our Frequently Asked Question on eligibility here.
We accept applications from the following organisations:
- Association or Trust
- Community Interest Company
- Company (limited by guarantee)
- Formally constituted club
- Education Establishment
- Local Authority
- Registered Charity
- Registered CASC
- Self-Employed
- Unregistered Club or Association
- Other
Previous examples of providers we have worked with include: holiday activity providers, schools, sports coaches, creative & performing arts providers and many others.
FEAST is a DfE Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme. All HAF programmes adhere to the DfE’s Framework of Standards, which includes specific standards around:
- Food provision
- Enrichment
- Physical Activity
- Increasing awareness of healthy eating, healthy lifestyles, and positive behaviours
- Signposting and referrals and supporting families
- Policies and procedures
Full and up-to-date information can be found on the DfE website. Our Application Guidance translates these minimum requirements into a FEAST specific context. FEAST reserves the right to require more robust delivery than the DfE Framework of Standards.
Support from North Yorkshire Together:
There will be a range of support available to providers, including but not limited to support on how to provide:
- food that meets the school standards (see our FEAST programme food toolkit here)
- physical activities that meet the HAF guidelines
- enrichment activities that meet the HAF guidelines
- nutritional education to FEAST participants and their parents/carers to meet the HAF guidelines
- support and signposting to families of FEAST participants to meet the HAF guidelines
- Inclusive and accessible environments
North Yorkshire Together can also provide support to increase your capacity outside the parameters of the Holiday Activities and Food programme, as well as on a range of topics not included above.
Further, North Yorkshire Council Libraries team can offer story-times and activity sessions for your programme, a collection of books for those wanting a quiet moment, or simply be there to talk about why books and reading are great activities. To access services please use the contact details below:
- General – Deborah.Thornton@northyorks.gov.uk
- Harrogate & Craven – Alison.Wheat@northyorks.gov.uk
- Scarborough and Ryedale – Adele.Duffield@northyorks.gov.uk
- Hambleton, Richmond & Selby – Voirrey.Whittaker@northyorks.gov.uk
Support from external providers
- Streets Games are running webinars to support organisations to have built the confidence to put themselves forward for Holiday Activities and Food programme funding, by sharing learning from previous holiday programmes and signposting to resources that can help with their applications.
- Active Recovery Hub has been created with schools in mind but can be used by anyone. The hub is offering over 250 resources intentionally designed to spark ideas, to boost children and young people’s health and wellbeing by promoting physical activity.
- Community First Yorkshire – Provide practical support to voluntary and community organisations, parish councils and social enterprises through their networks, projects, and services. We will also be using community First Yorkshire to advertise volunteering opportunities providers want to promote.
- Club Matters – this is Sport England’s one stop shop for clubs, groups and organisations involved in the delivery of physical activity and sport. Club Matters provides free, convenient, practical resources to help organisations to develop, grow and become more sustainable and successful.
- Yorkshire & Humber Learning Community – Online learning hub provided by North Yorkshire Sport, Active Humber, and Yorkshire Sport Foundation for anyone delivering exercise, sport or wellbeing in a community setting, club, or school.
- Holiday Activities and Food programme (HAF) active – Top tips for those delivering activity and signposting to other support to help you get the physical activity part of your holiday provision right
- Change4 life – Discover sugar swaps, healthy recipes, nutritional advice, and top tips and activities to help your kids stay healthy.
The Department for Education has given all local authorities in England funding to deliver a Holiday Activities and Food programme. FEAST is the Holiday Activities and Food programme for North Yorkshire.
Applying for a grant
We will open applications for the Easter holiday programme on 15th December 2023 and applications will close on 24th January 2024 at 5pm.
Providers are requested to follow the below funding maximums.
- Primary age: £15 per child per 4 hour session
- Mixed age: £18 per child per 4 hour session
- Secondary age: £20 per child per 4 hour session
If you can deliver your programme for less than this amount, you should apply for this. These maximums may not apply for SEND or highly specialised provision.
This programme has limited resources, and we want to enable as many young people as possible benefit from access to free holiday activities and food. Applications that we deem disproportionately expensive, in relation to similar other provision, will not be successful.
Please note: The funding amount you will receive, if successful, is calculated within the form, and is based on the number of free school meal places you are offering.
If you have any questions or issues submitting your application please email grants@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk
What do I need to do to be a FEAST Provider?
You can find all of this information in the FEAST Provider Checklist, please click below to download this.
FEAST Application Guidance
Before you complete your application, please read our current guidance document. This will help you to complete your application successfully. Applications that are not completed in line with our guidance will not be considered for funding.
Application Form
Although applications for FEAST grants are completed via our online form – which allows you to save and return to your application – you may wish to download the Word version of the application form below.
Although you cannot submit the Word document as an application, this may help you plan your answers and prepare, as a range of different information is required to complete your application thoroughly.
From Spring 2023, applicants will complete a FEAST Application Budget spreadsheet and upload this onto their online application form.
You cannot submit this alongside the Word document version of the application form as your application.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions about applying
There is no lower or upper limit for applications – however, during the application process we will assess whether the spread of provision is fair across North Yorkshire and if there are any issues, very large applications in areas of high concentration may be reduced.
We are aware that each opportunity will incur different costs dependant on location, target participant group and type of activity being delivered. However, we are providing the following guidelines that relate to the average cost per head that has been achieved by delivery partners since the programme started in Summer 2021.
- Primary age: £15.00 per child per session (4 hours)
- Mixed age: £18 per child per session (4 hours)
- Secondary age: £20 per child per session (4 hours)
If you can deliver your programme for less than this amount, you should apply for this.
This programme has limited resources, and we want to enable as many young people as possible benefit from access to free holiday activities and food. Applications that we deem disproportionately expensive, in relation to similar other provision, will not be successful.
- The direct cost of providing the child’s place, e.g. staffing, facilities, resources (equipment, materials etc.) This amount should not be any more than your usual costs. Where required we validate this against publicly available marketing and booking sites to ensure that providers are providing fair and equitable access.
- The cost of providing nutritious meals and snacks
- Administration costs associated with marketing and booking places for FEAST-eligible children, parental liaison and engagement, at a value of no more than 10% of your total grant application.
North Yorkshire’s rural nature may present barriers to some families accessing provision. Contribution to transport costs can be applied for in your grant application, however projects are asked to:
- Be innovative in approaches to physical accessibility – e.g., encourage, where relevant and possible, lift-shares, public transport, safe walking and cycle routes – including those led by project staff
- Consider community transport providers rather than commercial operations. More information is available from Go Local: http://www.golocal-northyorks.community/
Participants who still face transport-related barriers can request direct transport, at no cost, via the North Yorkshire Together website. This transport is limited, in terms of availability, frequency and distance, and uses North Yorkshire Council approved providers.
You must apply via the online application found on our website HERE.
If you wish, you can draft your answers on the Word document that can be downloaded from our website HERE
WE CANNOT ACCEPT THE WORD DOCUMENT AS AN APPLICATION.
If you send your application as a Word document, and/or do not complete all elements of the online application before the application deadline, your application will not be considered.
No, this funding only covers the School holiday period.
The guidance on food provision is as follows:
All providers must provide at least 1 meal a day (breakfast, lunch, or an evening meal) and all food provided at FEAST activities (including snacks) must meet school food standards.
If a provider is open to both FEAST-funded and non-FEAST-funded places, it is vital that all the children attending are provided with an identical food offer and that FEAST funded children are treated equally. If children on non-FEAST-funded places are given the option to bring a packed lunch, then we expect the provider to ensure that children attending through FEAST have the same choice.
All food provided as part of the HAF programme must:
- comply with regulations on food preparation
- take into account allergies and dietary requirements (see the allergy guidance for schools in our food toolkit)
- take into account any religious or cultural requirements for food
Alternatively, for providers who provide meals on-site, they could consider making the same healthy food available to all children, but with an additional charge for those non-HAF funded places.
Support
North Yorkshire Together will support providers in providing food and healthy eating activities as part of the FEAST programme. Training will be available at the Provider Information Sessions, and you can also access the FEAST programme food toolkit at any time.
If you have any questions about the food provision requirements for FEAST, please contact grants@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk
FEAST eligible children and young people live all across North Yorkshire, however their distribution is not equal. Similarly, the distribution of our Providers, and their relative specialisms, is not equally distributed.
Whilst we are accepting applications from all districts and types of providers, we are especially interested in Providers who can deliver for those:
- 11+
- With SEND
- Living in Ryedale and Selby
Once your application has been approved and all contracting and other requirements set by North Yorkshire Together have been met, your payment schedule will be sent on to North Yorkshire Council to process.
Please note that it may take up to four weeks between us receiving full and correct bank details from you to you receiving payment in your account.
Grants will paid as per the schedule below:
Value | Payment Schedule |
£2,499.99 or less | 100% up-front |
£2,500 – £4,999.99 | 75% up-front, 25% upon successful completion of your activities, monitoring and reporting |
£5,000 or more | 50% up-front, 50% upon successful completion of your activities, monitoring and reporting |
If your grant is £5,001 or above and you have concerns that the above payment schedule will impact your cashflow, please contact North Yorkshire Together as an alternative schedule may be negotiable.
Applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application the week following the closing date.
Organisations will be required to complete and submit both monitoring and evaluation regarding all those who attend your provision (whether FEAST-funded or otherwise)
Monitoring is the collection of data. You need to collect the following information for EVERY child that attends your FEAST provision (even those that were not funded by FEAST – e.g. paid-for places):
- Date of birth
- Full name
- Gender
- Free School Meal (FSM) status
- If not FSM eligible, was their attendance paid for, or did they have a FEAST code through another vulnerability?
- Home postcode
- School name and LA area
- Unique pupil ID (where possible)
- The total number of sessions and days they attended your FEAST provision
- SEND
- Number of sessions attended
We will provide you with a spreadsheet to collect this information in one clear and consistent manner. The provision of this full information is a requirement of your contract for FEAST delivery.
Evaluation is reflections on and evidence of how your Provision was delivered. This will include:
- Any wider impact your sessions have had on those attending.
- Participants’ feedback
- Parental feedback
- Self assessment to fulfil the framework (activity, enrichment food provision etc)
- Impact on your organisation – are you better equipped, increased capacity or confidence
We also reserve the right to request full financial reporting on your grant, which could include breakdown and proof of expenditure, including payslips, declaration of any additional income received, and confirmation of any unspent grant. You will be required to retain information to confirm the above for six years.
You can access the FEAST Easter 2023 Monitoring Form here.
If you wish to prepare your answers in advance and save as you go, please download this Word document version (please note you cannot submit your monitoring using the Word document, you must submit via the web form).
If you have any questions or issues submitting your application, please email grants@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk.
The deadline for submitting your monitoring is 5pm, 24th April 2023
If you have a grant
Anyone who has been allocated a FEAST voucher for the current holiday period.
FEAST is a Department for Education (DfE) Holiday Activities and Food programme. The DfE has designed this programme specifically to support those on benefits-related Free School Meals.
All children and young people receiving benefits-related Free School Meals are automatically eligible for FEAST.
Children and young people who are not on benefits-related Free School Meals but who face significant financial and/or other disadvantage can be made eligible by exception by their school. This might include, for example, young carers, refugees and asylum seekers and those with SEND.
Apart from receiving benefits-related Free School Meals, there are no criteria that guarantee a child/young person is eligible for FEAST, and there is no automatic entitlement to eligibility based on any particular experience, including those examples listed above.
There are also limits on how many non-benefits related Free School Meal children/young people can be made eligible, to ensure that the focus of the programme remains on the Department for Education’s key audience: those on benefits-related Free School Meals.
If a parent/guardian believes their child should be made eligible for a free FEAST place, please ask them to contact their school to request this. Individual schools have been given the responsibility to make additional children eligible by exception.
Schools have been asked to allocate a voucher to any child/young person that North Yorkshire Together has directly allocated a voucher to in a previous holiday period.
If the child does not attend school, the parent/guardian should email hello@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk confirming this and the reason for their eligibility.
If young people/their families/guardians need support to request a voucher from their school, a provider may do so.
There is no expectation that providers will replace paid-for places pro-bono (e.g. without any benefit to yourself), however if you do so, and would like these additional children to count towards your FEAST targets, they must have a voucher.
If you don’t get a voucher for a child/young person, HolidayActivities will not count them as being eligible for FEAST. This means they will not count towards your targets.
When parents/guardians book using HolidayActivities, their voucher code is already allocated to their account, meaning they are automatically counted towards your targets.
If the parent or guardian makes their booking any other way (e.g. over the phone or via email), you need to:
- Receive their 16-digit FEAST voucher number (and all other information required to keep them safe during their activity)
- Manually add their booking, including the 16-digit FEAST voucher, to HolidayActivities.
Parents/guardians can find their voucher by logging into to app.holidayactivities.com using the email address or social login as previously, and their voucher code for the current holiday period will be in their account (at the top, under the child’s name and school).
This ONLY works if parents/guardians have claimed this holiday period’s voucher by clicking on the link in the email or text. If they haven’t done this, they will need to:
- Search their emails or texts for ‘HolidayActivities’ to see if it is in their inbox or junk email folder
- Ask their school to provide them with a copy – there are instructions for school on how to do this on our Schools FAQ page. If it is the school holidays, ask them to contact hello@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk
If the parent/guardian has not received a voucher, please as them to contact their school. If school is closed, and you are confident the child is eligible for a free place, please accept their booking and ask them to contact hello@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk.
It is your responsibility to follow up with the parent or guardian to get their voucher number and add this to the booking before the session takes place.
Eligible children and young people are allocated a voucher by their school, not by North Yorkshire Together. Please direct the parent/guardian to the school to be allocated a voucher.
If the child doesn’t attend school, please ask their parent/guardian to email hello@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk confirming their name, primary contact email and mobile phone number, and the reason for their eligibility.
If the parent/guardian books via HolidayActivities, their voucher will already be automatically tracked and counted towards your targets.
If the parent/guardian books their place any other way, you need to secure their 16-digit voucher and add this to a booking you make manually on HolidayActivities.
The parent/guardian can find the voucher in their original email or text from HolidayActivities, or if they can’t find this, they can go to app.holidayactivities.com and log in and find it in their account.
If the parent/guardian hasn’t yet received a voucher, please ask them to contact their child’s school. If the child does not attend school, or the school is closed, please ask them to email hello@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk.
Any attendance not added to HolidayActivities will not count towards your targets. This may lead to under-performance against your grant agreement, which could result in the withholding or clawback of some of your grant.
Yes.
In order for children and young people eligible for a free FEAST place to be counted against your targets, their place must be registered, with a 16-digit voucher, on HolidayActivities.
If the parent/guardian booked their place using HolidayActivities, their voucher code is automatically added to their booking, and the participant will be counted towards your targets.
If the parent or guardian makes their booking any other way (e.g. over the phone or via email), you need to you need to secure their 16-digit voucher and add this to a booking you make manually on HolidayActivities.
The parent/guardian can find this in the email / text they received from HolidayActivities, or by logging into HolidayActivities.
If the parent/guardian has not received a voucher, please as them to contact their school. If school is closed, and you are confident the child is eligible for a free place, please accept their booking and ask them to contact hello@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk.
If a parent/guardian is not booking via HolidayActivities, it is your responsibility to follow up with the parent or guardian to get their voucher number and add this to the booking before the session takes place*.
*If, for exceptional circumstances, you need to do this after their attendance, this is possible – however you should make all possible efforts to do so before they attend. Participants CANNOT be made eligible for FEAST after activities have ceased.
No. It is not possible to retrospectively gain eligibility for participants.
If you are accepting a child/young person to attend your activity, and you do not have a 16-digit voucher for them, you MUST work with the parent/guardian to secure this and add it to the manual booking you have made for them on HolidayActivities before they attend*.
In order to secure the voucher, you can:
- Ask the parents to search in their emails or texts for ‘HolidayActivities’ to see if it is in their inbox or junk email folder
- If they’ve used HolidayActivities before, ask them to go to app.holidayactivities.com and logging in using the email address or social login they first accessed the platform with – their voucher code for the current holiday period will be in their account (at the top, under your child’s name and school)
- If they have not received a voucher, ask the parent to contact their school to be made eligible
- If schools are closed, ask them to email hello@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk with the following information as soon as possible and BEFORE they attend the activity:
- Child’s name
- Child’s date of birth
- Primary contact’s phone number and email
- Reason for their eligibility
North Yorkshire Together only issues FEAST vouchers in the very limited circumstance that a child/young person who is eligible has not received their voucher and schools are closed.
You CANNOT secure vouchers in bulk from North Yorkshire Together for young people who have attended your activity. Vouchers must be secured as soon as possible and before activity, via the parent/guardian.
Please remember that ALL FEAST-eligible bookings must be made on, or manually added (with a 16-digit voucher) to, HolidayActivities, to count towards your targets.
*If, for exceptional circumstances, you need to do add their voucher after their attendance, this is possible – however you should make all possible efforts to do so before they attend. This does not mean you can secure eligibility after their attendance.
Yes, if you’re confident they are eligible for a free place.
You then need to work with the parent/guardian to secure their 16 digit voucher to add to the manual booking you will make for their attendance on HolidayActivities.
The parent/guardian can find this by following the instructions in the FAQ ‘How can I help someone find a voucher that’s been lost or not received?’
If the parent/guardian has not received a voucher, please as them to contact their school. If school is closed, and you are confident the child is eligible for a free place, please accept their booking and ask them to contact hello@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk.
It is your responsibility to follow up with the parent or guardian to get their voucher number and add this to the booking before the session takes place.
Eligible children and young people are allocated a voucher by their school, not by North Yorkshire Together. Please direct the parent/guardian to the school to be allocated a voucher.
If the child doesn’t attend school, please ask their parent/guardian to email hello@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk confirming their name and eligibility.
If someone has been allocated a FEAST voucher for the current holiday period and they have already claimed it via HolidayActivities – by clicking the link in the email or text – they should:
- Log in to app.holidayactivities.com using the email address or social login they first accessed the platform with,
- Their voucher code for the current holiday period will be in their account (at the top, under their child’s name and school).
If someone has been allocated a FEAST voucher for the current holiday period and they have NOT already claimed it via HolidayActivities, they can:
- Search their emails or texts for ‘HolidayActivities’ to see if it is in their inbox or junk email folder
- Ask their school to provide them with a copy. If the school needs help with this, they can be directed to the instructions on our Schools FAQ page. If it is the school holidays, ask the parent/guardian to email hello@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk
We encourage your FEAST activities to be open to all, although FEAST can only fund those places for participants with a FEAST voucher.
Some exceptions may apply to our encouragement that provision be open to all – for example, where provision is tailored to a specific user group (e.g. SEND, young carers etc.)
We are required by the Department for Education to collect certain information about those participants who attend but do not count towards your FEAST targets (e.g. on paid-for or otherwise funded places). This will be confirmed to you at contracting stage.
You are welcome to use HolidayActivities to manage your paid-for places. We encourage you to do this, as this will mean you have the same detail of information for all participants, and these participants will be included in the automatic reminders etc. sent to parents/guardians.
However, for Christmas 2023, Providers will not be mandated to use HolidayActivities to manage their paid-for places.
If you do not use HolidayActivities for your paid-for places, you will still have to provide the total number of paid-for places and individual children during the monitoring process. You must also keep the information outlined in your SLA about each child, should FEAST be chosen for auditing by the Department for Education.
Yes. To ensure accessibility of the programme, you must also accept bookings off HolidayActivities, where required by the user. For example, you can offer telephone, email or face-to-face bookings. All bookings must then be added, alongside the relevant 16-digit voucher, to HolidayActivities.
First, you must collect all the information you need in order to make the child/young person’s participation in your activity safe.
In order for that child/young person to count towards your targets, you also need to add the child/young person’s unique 16-digit FEAST voucher to a booking you manually make on HolidayActivities.
If the parent/guardian hasn’t yet received a voucher, please ask them to contact their child’s school. If the child does not attend school, or the school is closed, please ask them to email hello@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk.
Yes, it’s critically important that each day you use the register function on HolidayActivities to confirm attendance, otherwise those children and young people booked onto that session will be marked as not having attended.
It is also important you use this register to mitigate against no shows and to recognise potential safeguarding issues.
Any attendance not added to HolidayActivities will not count towards your targets. This may lead to under-performance against your grant agreement, which could result in the withholding or clawback of some of your grant.
HolidayActivities offers a range of tools and options for providers to make the most of their activity listings and fill their places.
We encourage all providers to ensure their activity listings are as comprehensive, appealing and accurate as possible to attract bookings. This includes using engaging, age-appropriate photos that include a diverse range of young people.
The HolidayActivities messaging function is a useful tool to communicate quickly and directly with families to provide reminders, updates etc.
HolidayActivities sends automatic confirmation of bookings to parents/guardians, and a reminder about an upcoming booking one-week before the activity. You should use the messaging system to follow up with a reminder 2 or 3 days before the activity.
You may wish to consider listing more places than your targets, to accommodate for no-shows, if your staffing ratio would allow you to do that should all children attend.
North Yorkshire Together has further resources to mitigate against no shows. This, alongside guides and training on HolidayActivities, can be found in your ‘Provider Resources’ folder.
If you haven’t yet received this, please contact grants@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk
Please remember that ALL FEAST-eligible bookings must be made on, or manually added to, HolidayActivities.
Those booked on through the system will automatically count towards your target. Those added on manually will count as long as you add their 16-digit voucher to their booking, which you should do before they attend your activity*. Without this, these children will not count towards your targets.
Contrary to previous holiday periods, it is not possible to retrospectively gain eligibility for participants.
*If, for exceptional circumstances, you need to do this after their attendance, this is possible – however you should make all possible efforts to do so before they attend.
It is you, the provider, who is responsible for marketing your FEAST activity, to ensure they reach the targets they agree with North Yorkshire Together.
North Yorkshire Together provides marketing support through toolkits, ad-hoc social media and press activity, and via an online listing on the North Yorkshire Together website.
Please note that in your marketing you should direct parents of eligible children to book their free place via the voucher sent to them by their school, using the HolidayActivities platform. More information about this is in the families FAQ page.
In the first instance you should review the mitigation measures you included in your application (such as collaborating with other providers to find alternative venues/practitioners).
If these do not enable your activity to continue as planned, North Yorkshire Together would encourage you to attempt to reschedule the activities. Activities could be rescheduled to a later date in that holiday period, or alternatively the following holiday period (with agreement from North Yorkshire Together).
If neither your mitigation methods nor rescheduling (during that holiday or a later holiday period) are possible, we will negotiate with individual providers on a case-by-case basis the impact on their grant agreement. This will include the return of all or summative portion of your grant, in line with the achieved delivery of your targets. For example, if you reached 40% of your targets, it may be you are required to return 60% of your grant.
Each round of successful applications, North Yorkshire Together hosts Provider Development Sessions. These sessions provide vital guidance, training and support with all things FEAST related – from marketing to monitoring, School Food Standards to safeguarding. It’s also an opportunity to meet our team and other FEAST Providers to share opportunities, successes and challenges.
A senior representative from your team must attend a Provider Development Session for each round of applications you are successful in. Guidance for the programme changes frequently, so attendance at a previous holiday period’s session does not negate the need to attend a new session.
The dates and locations for the Christmas 2023 Provider Development Sessions are:
- 23rd November in Ryedale AM
- 29th November in Harrogate PM
If attendance at one of these dates poses a significant issue, we strongly encourage you to get in touch with grants@northyorkshiretogether.co.uk before submitting your application.
In the first instance, please refer to North Yorkshire Council Cost of Living Support webpage, or call the council on 0300 131 2131, for full and further information.
Other support may also be available, for example Cash for Kids – Cost of Living Grants:
Grants available to charities, community groups and professionals to help disadvantaged children across the UK during the current cost-of-living crisis.
Grants are for £50 per child per household. Professionals within a governing body (e.g. social services, GP, teacher, charity, community group etc.) are eligible to apply on behalf of families in need. Costs such as food, clothing (including school uniform) and household energy are supported by the grant but any other item or cost is considered if children’s most basic needs are to be met.
Applications are accepted on a first come, first served basis and applicants are advised to submit early as the scheme will close when funds are depleted.
You can also check out our Support Page for more resources.
You can find information about support schemes and organisations which may be able to help on the North Yorkshire Council cost of living support page.
The Household Support Fund was set up by the Government to help people who are struggling with the increase in living costs and feeling the financial pressure of paying their bills. You’ll find more information about the Household Support Fund in North Yorkshire at the Household Support Fund page.
If you’re not eligible for the Household Support Fund but you are struggling to pay for food, energy and other essentials you may be able to get other financial support through schemes such as the North Yorkshire Local Assistance Fund (NYLAF) and a fund managed by North Yorkshire Citizens Advice and Law Centre that helps people struggling to pay their energy bills.
The North Yorkshire Council cost of living support page also contains advice on money, debt, benefit entitlement, free school meals and childcare costs as well as information about free Wi-Fi, digital support, travel and transport. The page also has information about energy saving, foodbanks and community-based support including Warm Welcome Spaces and local schemes depending on where you live.
North Yorkshire Citizen’s Advice and Law Centre provide free, confidential and impartial advice to help people find a way forward with whatever problems they face, including money and benefits. You can get advice in person, over the phone, on a web chat or by email by contacting North Yorkshire Citizen’s Advice and Law Centre direct.
