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Big Norfolk Holiday Fun Knowledge Hub

The Big Norfolk Holiday Fun Knowledge Hub is designed to provide guidance and advice on the Holiday Activity and Food programme as well as support and resources to help providers maximise the impact of their activities.

On this page, you’ll find guidance relating to accessibility, nutrition and safeguarding guidance, amongst various other topics.

Click the links below to jump straight to your required section, or scroll down to explore.

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Adapting your activities to make them inclusive and accessible
Kids eating healthy food

Embedding nutritional education into your offer
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Health & Safety
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Managing Challenging Behaviour
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Safeguarding
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Deliverers you can partner with

What training courses are available?

We offered courses to HAF providers to broaden their knowledge and understanding of working with children and young people, and in turn boost their confidence in providing suitable, safe, and successful events for young people.

These courses ran between the weeks commencing 22 November and 29 November. They have now ended, however check back in the future to see if we are offering any further training.

These free workshops focused on inclusion and making sure your sessions are accessible for all children – regardless of physical or mental disability, race or gender.

You can also register for the SEND e-learning module designed to improve the knowledge and understanding of special educational needs and disability (SEND) and associated responsibilities which can be found here.

These courses focused on providing inclusive and autism-friendly events.

These courses intended to equip attendees with ideas, confidence and resources when delivering creative learning sessions.

 

These courses were provided by Street Games and focused on the best way to manage challenging behaviour when providing sessions for young people.

These course provided guidance on how to educate young people when it comes to nutrition.

This session focused on embedding physical activity into your provisions.

These courses were centered on best practices for safeguarding children, covering procedures that should be in place, and any forms you should read or complete in advance of your sessions.

These courses were provided by Ormiston Families and focused on improving confidence to support children’s mental health, and best practices on how to spot and highlight any concerns.

What courses are you interested in attending?

All courses have now been completed and we will not be offering any more until the next HAF programme commences. Check back closer to Easter or email us with any questions below.

Accessibility & Diversity

It is important that your sessions are accessible for all children – regardless of physical or mental disability, race or gender. The pandemic has exacerbated inequalities for disadvantaged groups. Take a look at the resources below for information on how these groups have been disproportionately affected, and for information on how to make your sessions accessible for everyone.

To sign up to one of our inclusivity workshops, click here.

Equality and Diversity – Small Organisations (docx, 14.62 KB)

To ensure your activities are inclusive and accessible for everyone, it is good practice to develop a diversity policy. An example of one can be found here.

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Embedding nutritional education into your offer

Food plays a major role in the Big Norfolk Holiday Fun programme. However, it is about more than just the food itself. It’s an opportunity to learn about food and nutrition, for young people to build an understanding of healthy food, to get stuck in and make a meal, or even grow their own food.


Evidence shows that what happens in the Big Norfolk Holiday Fun programme can have an impact in the home. Last year we saw a number of organisations provide young people with ingredient boxes and recipe cards to make meals at home with the rest of their family.

The following organisations provide sources of information about nutritional education as well as recipes and ideas for families.

To sign up to one of our nutritional workshops, click here.

PHE School Zone: Classroom Cooking Toolkit (pdf, 187.36 KB)

The classroom cooking toolkit is full of great ideas to help you teach cooking with FAQs and essential safety tips.

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Norse Nutritional Catalogue: Fun Pack (zip, 2.52 MB)

This nutritional pack contains recipes, fun activities and guidance to help you get started.

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Health & Safety

All providers should ensure they have a suitable risk assessment plan in place, which is up to date and in line with the latest government guidelines.

Creating a risk assessment for clubs and organisations (pdf, )

The risk assessment process can be used to record, identify, and assess risks.

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Managing Challenging Behaviour

Below are some resources and external sites designed to help you should you encounter challenging behaviour. These guides will help you prepare, and create a plan to adapt your activities and overcome any obstacles presented through challenging behaviour.

Check back to the Knowledge Hub later for a link to sign up to one of Street Games’ behaviour workshops.

Key Facts About Autism Spectrum Disorder (pdf, 1.22 MB)

This document gives you key information to help you recognise autism, understand how it affects different people, and learn about how to respond to the challenges of autism.

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Keeping Children Safe

Children’s safety is paramount and should be a primary consideration when planning activities or events. The following resources should provide guidance on how to ensure and maintain child safety through your activities.

To sign up to a safeguarding workshop, click here.

Keeping Children Safe – Code of Practice (pdf, 1.90 MB)

Non-statutory guidance for providers running out-of-school settings

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Please feel free to print and use the below at your sessions over the summer, if you don’t have access to a printer, please get in touch with Ellen Vanlint if you would like to order any printed versions at ellen.vanlint@activenorfolk.org

Safer in Sport Cards (2021) (pdf, 145.48 KB)

A printable, foldable leaflet providing useful tips for young people on how to feel safer in sport.

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Partnership Directory Information: Deliverers who can help you

If you need assistance with your provision over the festive period, these deliverers may be able to assist.

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District informational sheets

Below are some district information sheets.

Download the Breckland information sheet

Click here to download the Broadland information sheet

Click here to download the North Norfolk information sheet.

Click here to download the Norwich information sheet.

Click here to download the South Norfolk information sheet.

Click here to download the West Norfolk information sheet.

Click here to download the Great Yarmouth support sheet

Big Norfolk Holiday Fun Knowledge Hub Help

Need further assistance? Get in touch using the details below, and our team will be happy to get back to you.

Holiday Activity and Food Team

bnhf@norfolk.gov.uk

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