‘Working together to promote healthy living, support positive well-being and improve engagement with education and the school during the summer holidays.’

What is Food and Fun?

Food and Fun is a school-based education programme that provides food and nutrition education, physical activity, enrichment sessions and healthy meals to children during the school summer holidays.

Starting as a pilot run by Cardiff Council in 2015, Food and Fun has developed into a national, fully funded Welsh Government programme administered by the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA). In 2021, 137 schools delivered the programme and provided over 7500 places for children each day that it ran.

The Welsh Government has committed to fund SHEP in 2022 with £4.85m allocated in the budget. The WLGA will continue to coordinate the roll-out by working closely with local authorities and partner agencies.