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.
