Health and Nutrition Education
Children learn about food, healthy choices, and nourishment in a practical, age-appropriate way.
Jumping Beans Holiday Programme
Safe, Creative, Nourishing
Holiday Support
Safe, creative, nourishing holiday support for children aged 5–11.
Jumping Beans gives children a safe place to learn, play, eat well, build confidence, and flourish when school is closed.
Ages 5–11
Healthy meals
Creative play
Safe support
Community care
Healthy meals
Creative play
Safe support
Community care
About the Programme
A Safe Space to
Learn,
Play and
Flourish
Jumping Beans is Children With Voices’ holiday programme for primary-aged children, providing a safe, welcoming, and nurturing space during school breaks.
More than childcare, the programme supports working families while helping children learn, play, eat well, build confidence, and develop essential life skills. Through creative activities, movement, nutrition education, and emotional wellbeing support, Jumping Beans gives children a place to flourish when school is closed.
Primary ages 5–11
Hackney-based
Inclusive & welcoming
Hackney-based
Inclusive & welcoming
What We Offer
What Jumping Beans Provides
Jumping Beans brings together practical support, creative learning, and community care. Each session is designed to help children feel safe, included, active, and supported.
Creative Arts and Movement
Activities encourage imagination, self-expression, confidence, play, and physical activity.
Emotional Wellbeing Support
Children are supported in a calm, nurturing environment where they can feel safe, listened to, and valued.
Affordable, Accessible Holiday Provision
The programme helps reduce barriers for families who need trusted support during school breaks.
Trained, Caring Staff
Sessions are supported by caring staff and volunteers who understand the local community.
The Need
Why It Matters
Many families in Hackney face a lack of affordable and accessible holiday provision. For children, this can mean fewer opportunities to learn, socialise, eat well, and stay active during school breaks.
Jumping Beans helps close that gap by providing structured, inclusive, and enriching holiday support for children aged 5–11.
Holiday Learning Gap
Without structured activities during the holidays, some children risk losing confidence, routine, and opportunities to keep learning.
Food Insecurity
Many children rely on school meals during term time. Holiday provision helps ensure children continue to receive nourishing food when school is closed.
Limited Social Engagement
Safe group activities give children opportunities to build friendships, communication skills, confidence, and emotional wellbeing.
Pressure on Working Families
For parents and carers, school holidays can create added financial, practical, and emotional pressure. Accessible holiday provision gives families trusted support when they need it most.
Open to Everyone
Inclusion & Affordability
Jumping Beans is designed to be accessible for every family. Children With Voices is committed to reducing barriers to participation so that children can benefit regardless of financial background.
The programme is free for children on Free School Meals, with a suggested donation of £10 per day for families who are able to contribute. Parent volunteers are also welcomed, helping strengthen community connection while supporting delivery.
No child should be excluded from safe, enriching holiday support because of cost, circumstance, or background.
Free for children on Free School Meals
No family should face a barrier because of cost.
Suggested £10/day donation
For families who are able to contribute.
Parent volunteers welcomed
Strengthening community while supporting delivery.
Future Vision
Looking Ahead
A Reliable Space for Children and Families
To grow Jumping Beans and meet the needs of more families, Children With Voices is working towards securing a dedicated space for holiday provision and wider learning support.
A reliable space would allow the programme to run more consistently, provide children with a familiar and safe environment, and create more opportunities for enrichment, mentoring, nutrition, wellbeing, and alternative education support beyond the school holidays.
Inclusion is not a strategy to help people fit into the systems and structures which exist in our societies; it is about transforming those systems and structures to make it better for everyone.
Have Your Say
Help Shape Jumping Beans
We want Jumping Beans to reflect the real needs of children, parents, carers, and the wider community. Your feedback helps us understand what families need most during school holidays and how we can continue improving the programme.
Get Involved
Support Jumping Beans
Help Children With Voices provide safe, creative, and nourishing holiday support for children and families in Hackney.
Whether you donate, volunteer, partner with us, or share your feedback, your support helps children learn, play, eat well, and flourish during the school holidays.