Tameside MBC/Active Tameside are responsible for the coordination of the programme and are continuously looking to develop partnerships with community sports clubs, physical activity/faith groups and schools with the main purpose being that the partner organisation will deliver holiday programmes independently on behalf of Fuel4Fun, and its brand.
Tameside as a borough has a high number of families living in poverty and deprivation. Tackling school holiday hunger is a key element of the funding.
As part of the Fuel4Fun offer, each eligible family receives a hamper delivered to the family home
Each family receives a hamper delivered to the family home; each hamper contains enough food to feed a family of four for five nights.
The hampers contain fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh meat, and ambient products.
Alongside this, each meal is accompanied with a menu card with step-by-step guides to create a family approach to home-cooked, healthy meals with the support of online tuition.
Menu cards are created in partnership with Tameside Children’s Nutritional Health Team to ensure each meal meets nutritional guidance.
In one 12-month period the funding enabled us to support 4,935 individual families with food hampers (some families receiving five hampers over the summer to support the need in Tameside) with a total of 24,675 meals delivered.
On top of helping to break down barriers to access sports and physical activities, children are also encouraged to develop life-skills such as gardening on the trust’s community allotments and cooking their own healthy lunches.
Alongside these activities, each child received a healthy lunch, with each child being actively encouraged to get involved in the meal’s preparation and making, before eating their own lunch, exploring new foods, and developing their own recipes.To create a transferable approach, each child receives an activity bag to take home which includes sports items, arts and crafts and a water bottle, giving each family the opportunity to increase activity levels at home, boosting their health and wellbeing, and supporting positive behaviour changes.
What’s more, Fuel4Fun has created a number of volunteering and paid employment opportunities.
Notwithstanding, the incredible social impact Fuel4Fun has had on young people and their families, it has provided the opportunity for Adult Day Service clients from our Everybody Can programme – which provides services and provision for children and adults with additional needs and/or disabilities – the opportunity to gain valuable life skills through volunteering and paid roles.
Fuel4Fun has had a huge impact: delivering 6,019 food boxes in 2021 and almost doubling delivery in 2022 with 11,300 food boxes delivered to families.
Fuel4Fun also delivered a wide range of activities over the summer engaging with 13 primary schools, 11 clubs, 6 PVIs, five active sites, five youth provisions and four SEND groups.
Each setting delivered a diverse, interactive, and exciting timetable, including activities such as: Commonwealth games tournaments, social media awareness courses, nutrition education sessions, swimming lessons, the introduction of the daily mile and bike ability courses.
Additionally, we engaged with 1,500 young people at our Tameside Rocks Community Festival and a further 100 young people who attended our youth adventure days.
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