Happy Healthy Holidays Volunteer Training 2019

1. Happy Healthy Holidays Volunteer Training 2019

2. THANK YOU for Volunteering • Make friends • Gain skills • Have fun • Build confidence • Make a difference in your community

3. Our Social Media #FoodandFuninBrum

4. What we’ll be covering • About the programme • What clubs will be delivering • Minimum delivery standards requirements

5. Background • Birmingham has 50,000 children and young peopleeligible for Free School Meals and 100,000 in poverty. • School holidays can be very stressful for families on low incomes in relation to food, activities and social contact. • Accord Housing Association, Sport Birmingham, Birmingham PlayCare Network and The Active Well-being Society have come together to create Happy Healthy Holidays (HHH) • HHH aims to provide healthy food and activities for 4 hours a day, 4 days a week, for 4 weeks.

6. Aims • For children who attend: • to eat more healthily • to be more active • to enjoy engaging and enriching activities which support their wider learning, development and wellbeing • to be safe and socially engaged • to better understanding ofhealth and nutrition

7. What clubs will be delivering • Over 194 local venues including parks, children's centres, youth centres, schools, leisure centres, sports clubs, faith centres and community centres will be running HHH summer holiday clubs • Clubs will be • delivering four hour long programmes over 16 days including a healthy meal and snacks, and a programme of activities

8. HHH Principles Food - at least one meal a day (breakfast, lunch or tea + snack) and all food provided must meet the school food standards. Nutrition Education – improving children’s knowledge and awareness of healthy eating (e.g.) getting children involved in food preparation and cooking; growing fruit and vegetables, and taste tests. Enrichment Activities – to develop new skills or knowledge, to consolidate existing skills and knowledge, or to try out new experiences. Physical Activities - clubs must provide activities which meet the Physical Activity guidelines for 5-16year olds on a daily basis (60 mins per day). Quality Assurance – all clubs must have good safety and safeguarding and ensure quality assurance checks, policies and procedures.

9. All Food meet the school food standards One meal a day + snack daily School Standards Framework encourages healthy eating and the provision of tasty and nutritious food and drinks. Volunteersinvolved in food preparation and catering will need to have a valid Food Hygiene Level 2 certificate and allergen awareness training Volunteers involved in food preparation and catering need to have an understand the nutrition education and catering guidance within the HHH Toolkit

10. The School Food Standards • high-quality traceable and safe protein • fruit and vegetables • bread, other cereals and potatoes By following the School Food Standards HHH will: • Help children develop healthy eating habits and get the energy and nutrition they need • Offer participatory sessions that contributes to their learning and ability to cook for themselves Not allowed: • drinks with added sugar, crisps, chocolate or sweets • more than 2 portions of deep-fried, battered or breaded food a week

11. Quality Assurance To ensure that every young person attending a HHH session is safe, has access to a range of physical and creative activities and is provided with a healthy meal and snack. We have a framework that will support providers to meet minimum operating standards, divided into four areas: • Safeguarding Children and Young People • Healthy Food and Cooking • Activity Programme and Promotion • Management, Monitoring and Data

12. Nutrition education can include: 1.  Skills based activities like communal cooking activities done in smaller groups, plus growing and harvesting activities linked to allotments, orchards, etc., and/or 2. Knowledge based activities link the four areas of nutrition education - shopping, nutrition/diet, food hygiene and cooking. 

13. Physical Activity • To stay healthy or to improve health, young people need to do three types of physical activity: • Aerobic – heart pumping • Bone Strengthening • Muscle Strengthening • Not all activity needs to be vigorous sporting activities. There are so many other things you can do together to get people moving around and their hearts pumping. Activities could include: skipping, games, trying different sports, Daily Mile, Change4Life, dance, supported free play, team challenges, playing in a playground etc

14. Enrichment Activities • Can be physical, arts or craft based, or a combination. • Fun and enriching activities • Support development and wellbeing • Provide opportunities to develop new skills or knowledge • Strengthenexisting skills and knowledge • Try out new experiences • EG Physical activities such as football, table tennis, cricket etc.; creative activities such as putting on a play, junk modelling, drumming workshops; or experiences such as a nature walk, visiting a city farm etc

15. Top tips for setting up and running a successful holiday club: • Advance planning and scenario planning if weather is poor or there is another challenge. • Ground rules being set at the start of each day • Fostering an environment of co-production with children and young people • Ongoing communication with parents • Ensuring there is a fun element of challenge every day. • Promoting team work and friendship as far as possible. • Sign-posting to other community activities and support available through the holidays and beyond. • Call for help and support if you are struggling or things go wrong. • Start simple with catering, and keep extras for lactose/gluten free participants. • Keep everyone hydrated, especially in the heat with water. • Encourage everyone to sit down together to eat and discuss the food at each meal.

16. Thank you for all your help, we couldn’t do it without you!