Council-funded activity week ‘more popular than ever’.
Milton Keynes City Council funded more than 19,000 hours of free activities and provided thousands of healthy lunches for children who usually receive free school meals, through the recent Easter school holidays.
Almost 5,000 individual sessions took place with each including a free healthy meal, says the council. Its spring activity programme ran for the first week of the school holidays and offered indoor and outdoor events for children and their families in dozens of locations across the city.
Activity providers were required to make them as accessible as possible and a third of children who attended this year had additional needs.
The City Council worked with schools, clubs and charities to provide sports, music, education and crafts, with children and young people learning skills from baking to street dance and football. There were also day trips to visit Gulliver’s Land, Wicksteed Park and Petite Ponies, where children spent time with a variety of animals.
“Our Easter activity week was more popular than ever and enabled us to support around 2,400 individual children and young people, 600 more than last year,” said Councillor Joe Hearnshaw, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People.
“We’re pleased to see so many families taking advantage of this extra help and are already busy planning our summer programme.”
