How to Book

The method of how you book will be determined in which County Council you live. Typically the process is you will receive an email or text message from your school with a direct link to access the funding on their chosen booking platform. You have to book on their site and have your booking approved by School’s Out Activities before you can replicate your booking on our site (which we need you to do to gain access to your QR Code for entry).

If you are booking for Suffolk or Essex places, then please follow these instructions and external links to the centralised booking systems.

Booking Suffolk Venues

Suffolk County Council uses a platform called EEQU. You will find out when the bookings open for the upcoming holiday period on the EEQU platform. To make a booking for any of our Suffolk sites follow the links below:

📍Woodbridge – https://eequ.org/experience/5667
📍Ipswich – https://eequ.org/experience/5630
📍Felixstowe – https://eequ.org/experience/5674
📍Bury St Edmunds – https://eequ.org/experience/5672

Booking Essex Venues

Essex Council Council uses a platform called Holiday Activities. You will be notified when booking opens for the upcoming school holiday period when you receive email notification from your school and the Essex Activates network. 

More information can be found here: https://www.holidayactivities.com/how-it-works/recipients/ 
Look out for a link provided by your school. This will have a unique eligibility code and selective access to the central booking website. All bookings are made here. Access to all families is provided at the same time to provide fairness. We have spaces at all of our Essex venues this year.

📍Colchester
📍Shenfield
📍Chelmsford
📍Braintree

📞 If you have any questions about the above, please do not hesitate to get in contact: ‭07535 058005‬. We look forward to welcoming you to our camps shortly.

Waiting List

Bookings are accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. Best to be quick as they sell out very fast. Each Council platform will tell you how many spaces we have left for each date. If your chosen venue and/or dates are fully booked, please look at other dates and venues. If not then each platform will allow you to join the waiting list in case of any cancellations. We will always have paid places available if you do need certain dates and the HAF entitlement has sold out.

Next Steps

Once you have requested spaces on the Council websites the process continues and checks are completed:

• In the meantime we need you create an account on our website (if you don’t already have one) and also add in all of your children to your My Account area of the site. We take more details of your children than the council websites so require you to do this. Follow here to create an account: https://bookings.schoolsoutactivities.co.uk/dashboard
• The Council will check your eligibility, and then we have to approve your bookings before they are confirmed.
• We will then provide you with the amount of approved days to book on our website free-of-charge. These will not cover any extras such as Early Bird and Extended Fun drop off. You can add and pay for these and extra dates you require on top of your funding from within the My Bookings section of the website.
• You can now also select your food lunch options for your children.
• You will receive full booking confirmation.
• For more assistance with this, please do not hesitate to contact our HAF booking enquiries team (‭07535 058005).

What is Holiday Activity and Food (HAF)?

The government’s expanded £220 million Holiday Activities and Food programme (HAF) is able to offer funded school holiday activity places along with a healthy lunch for children who are eligible.  We know the scheme is in place for the end of 2025, yet we are waiting on government decision to see whether this gets extended another 3 years beyond this.