Holiday Activities & Food Programme (HAF)
for 11-16 year olds

A healthy cooked dinner is included in all sessions. This will be vegetarian, with gluten free and vegan options. These are free of charge, as part of Devon County Council's fully funded Holiday Activities and Food programme. Priority is given to young people in receipt of benefit related free school meals.

 

We are currently awaiting news of funding for our 2025 programme.

What is the HAF programme?

The HAF programme is a fully funded holiday activities provision for children who receive benefits related free school meals.

Benefits-related free school meals (FSM) are available to pupils if their parents are in receipt of one of the qualifying benefits. To check if your child is eligible to apply for the programme, please visit this page Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme – Education and Families (devon.gov.uk) for more information. ​

Fire Craft

Do you want to learn how to make a fire from natural materials or the old way of making fire by friction? Fire making for fun and to use for cooking will be a part of every HAF On The Hill session. Come and develop your firecraft skills with us with winter.

Farm Activities

There are always a variety of farm activities which bring a group together, tending to the sheep,  vegetable harvesting, wild food foraging, wood processing and tractor rides!.

Cooking Over The Fire

Each HAF session will include making hot food, and what better way than cooking it over the fire - from learning fire making skills to getting creative with seasonal pancake mixes and fragrant curries and flatbreads. It's amazing the dishes that can come together over fire!

Big Garden Adventures

Would you like to understand better where your food comes from, and make a contribution to the garden that feeds us all? 

On a big garden adventure we will discover the wild and grown food readily available on the land, and the more tropical treats growing in our polytunnel! ever wondered what a passion fruit straight off the vine tatses like? or a vitamin c bomb that is the mighty kumquat lemon?

Rural Arts & Crafts

Paint and make with wild materials foraged from the land and garden.

Working With Tools

Working with tools to create and mend are essential skills that you can learn on the farm.

What You Say

  • Young Person, 2023
    I just want to say how much I appreciate you and the team for allowing me to experience all the activities I have done on the farm. I hope to see you all again. Thank you for making the last 2 weeks of my summer holiday enjoyable. I will miss you guys a lot

    Young Person, 2023

  • Care Manager, 2023
    I would like to say a big thank you to you and your team for how welcome you have made J feel during his sessions with you. He has taken a great deal from the experiences and has talked highly of you all and has a big smile when he knows he is going. The food he has been making and the time spent there have been a valuable experience for J

    Care Manager, 2023

  • Parent, 2023
    You offer something very special and unique and there is a lack of this for the older kids

    Parent, 2023