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

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 young people to attend in the school holidays\r • To provide a fun, high quality holiday club experience for the young people\r • To support the social skills of the young people attending\r • To provide mentors and role model through the Essex ActivAte club staff\r • To ensure that young people have at least 1 nutritious meal each day\r • To provide education for the young people and whole family around eating more healthy, nutritious meals, on a budget\r • Providing signposting and support for the whole family so that they have the understanding and knowledge to improve their physical and mental health and wellbeing, support network and opportunities. \r \r The maximum bid value per project is £300,000.

Runs	7 Apr 2025 to 28 Feb 2026
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