Holiday clubs research findings

The largest study of school holiday clubs in England - led by Northumbria University's Healthy Living Lab - has found that as well as helping to combat childhood hunger, holiday clubs provide a number of social and health benefits including providing children a safe place to play.

The A Day Out, Not a Handout project was established by the North East Child Poverty Trust, delivered by Children North East, and funded by the Big Lottery Fund, in response to the impact of ‘holiday hunger’ as a key issue for struggling families in the North East. The Trust was keen to develop and test a programme of holiday clubs that would address the nutritional and wellbeing needs of children in a coordinated and consistent manner.