Local groups are being encouraged to set up summer holiday clubs to help youngsters socialise after a year of lockdown enforced isolation.
North Yorkshire County Council is offering funding to groups who can set up holiday clubs in the local area.
Social isolation has been a particular issue for young people during the pandemic and this summer the County council is making a number of grants available to help local organisations set up holiday clubs.
David Watson is the Chief Executive of North Yorkshire Sport, he says they are looking for a variety of different clubs to be set up.
David says the aim is to provide Yorkshire Coast youngsters with somewhere to meet up and socialise and they would welcome applications for funding from a range of different organisations.
The Department for Education is providing funding to local authorities to coordinate a holiday programme offer combining provision of healthy food and enriching activities to children in receipt of benefits-related Free School Meals.
North Yorkshire County 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 is seeking applications from private, voluntary, and public sector organisations to enable delivery of a rich and diverse offer in key locations across the county. They say the opportunity will be of interest to existing holiday activity providers, schools, sports coaching, creative and performing arts providers and many others.
The support is being targetted at children who are eligible for and / or receive benefits-related free school meals. The provision is to be free of charge to these children but providers can make the holiday clubs available at a charge to children not eligible for and / or in receipt of free school meals.
Applications for the funding need to be submitted before Monday June 28th. More details are available on the North Yorkshire Together Website https://northyorkshiretogether.co.uk/info-for-providers/
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