Cheap Childcare This Summer for £7.50 a Day with Sainsbury’s Active Kids

Get cheap childcare this summer with Sainsbury’s Active Kids Holiday Clubs. At just £7.50 a day per child, lunch is also included!

Annual leave at work goes quick! Some companies only offer the minimum of 20 days, plus bank holidays, which clearly doesn’t stretch for all the school holidays the kids get off a year!

Even if there are two of you looking after the kids, it’s still a struggle to sort out arrangements. So paying for childcare or putting your kids in a holidays club is, sometimes, the only choice.

However, it can be expensive!

One of our local childcare providers charges £30 for a day looking after our kids, which works out around £900 for the whole of the summer holidays!

Collectively, families will pay close to £9.9 billion on childcare over the summer. *crying face* And, due to no other choice, it’s a price you’ve gotta pay!

But, not any more!

Check to see if you’re eligible for tax free childcare that can save you up to £2,000 per year.

Sainsbury’s Active Kids Holiday Clubs

 

Kids aged between 5 and 15 can attend Sainsbury’s Holiday Clubs across the country for just £7.50 a day (the price also includes a nutritious lunch and healthy snacks)!

The clubs run from 9 am to 4 pm (with registration from 8:45), Monday to Friday and will take place in 70 locations (see below for a list).

You’re able to book in places for up to 5 children for as many days as you want.

If you’ve been saving up your Nectar points, you can pay for your child’s place with your loyalty card points! You need to use 1,500 Nectar points (or a combination of Nectar points and money) to pay for the holiday club.

To collect points quicker, look to use the new Nectar app or look at ways to collect points without even shopping in store.

You cannot use childcare vouchers or tax-free vouchers towards the payment.

The cheap holiday clubs are running from 22 July 2019 until 30 August 2019, but some locations may have slightly different dates.

Spaces are subject to availability and will no doubt get booked up fast because they are so cheap, so you should look to book sooner, rather than later.

All bookings must be made via the Active Kids website, and you cannot make a booking in a Sainsbury’s store.

What do the kids do?

Hopefully, your kids will get worn out :)

They get involved in a structured (and fully supervised) full-day programme, which is action-packed with activities they may not have tried before.

Kids can try out gymnastics, tennis, quick cricket, dodgeball, football alongside active play, dance, and parasport.

They can also give circus skills a go, and enjoy arts and crafts.

Kids are grouped in ages, so they’ll not be pushed too far for their abilities.

The activities will help build your kid’s social skills, self-esteem, coordination and physical wellbeing.

A spokesperson for Sainsbury’s said: “We know from speaking to parents that the summer holidays can be a difficult time to keep children entertained, so with our new Active Kids holiday clubs we hope to provide them with much needed support during the long school break.

“Taking part in a club this summer may be the first step in a lifelong passion for a new activity and perhaps even create a future sporting superstar.”

No more Sainsbury’s Active Kids vouchers

Sainsbury’s Active Kids used to be a voucher scheme run by the supermarket (remember those coupons they used to give out?)

The idea was you spent £10 in store, got a voucher and handed it to your school who swapped them for sport and cooking equipment.

Running for 13 years, and having donated £186m of equipment, the Active Kids voucher scheme came to an end in 2018 and was replaced with the Sainsbury’s Active Kids Holiday Clubs.

So now the school won’t get free equipment, but families will see the savings in their own pockets.

Sainsbury’s Active Kids venues

Here are the 70 schools who are hosting the holiday clubs in 2019.

Your child does not need to attend the school itself to take part in the cheap holiday club.

Each venue updates to show if they are fully booked, and break down the availability by day.

School	Location	Venue details
Harborne Academy	Edgbaston, B15 3JL	View Venue
The Ridgeway Primary School	Berkshire, RG2 8JD	View Venue
Erdington Academy	Birmingham, B24 8RE	View Venue
Sharples School	Bolton, BL1 8SN	View Venue
Jewell Academy Bournemouth	Bournemouth, BH8 0LH	View Venue
Juniper Hill School	Buckinghamshire, HP10 9LA	View Venue
Ridgefield Primary School	Cambridgeshire, CB1 3RJ	View Venue
Ely College	Cambridgeshire, CB6 2SH	View Venue
Werrington Primary School	Cambridgeshire, PE4 6QG	View Venue
Jeavons Wood Primary School	Cambridgeshire, CB23 6DZ	View Venue
Woolston Community Primary School	Cheshire, WA1 4NW	View Venue
Portway Junior School	Derbyshire, DE22 2GL	View Venue
Orchard Community Primary School	Derbyshire, DE74 2QU	View Venue
Whipton Barton Junior School	Devon, EX1 3JP	View Venue
Widewell Primary School	Devon, PL6 7ER	View Venue
Boringdon Primary School	Devon, PL7 4HJ	View Venue
Warberry Church of England Academy	Devon, TQ1 1SB	View Venue
Carden Primary School	East Sussex, BN1 8LU	View Venue
Christ Church CofE Primary School	East Sussex, TN37 6JJ	View Venue
Springfield Primary School	Essex, CM1 6XW	View Venue
Long Ridings Primary School	Essex, CM13 1DU	View Venue
Manor Junior School	Essex, IG11 9AG	View Venue
Roding Primary School	Essex, IG8 8NP	View Venue
Herringham Primary School	Essex, RM16 4JX	View Venue
Hamstel Infant School and Nursery	Essex, SS2 4PQ	View Venue
Langstone Junior School	Hampshire, PO3 6EZ	View Venue
Hatch Warren Infant School	Hampshire, RG22 4PQ	View Venue
Fairlands Primary School and Nursery	Hertfordshire, SG1 3JA	View Venue
Hatfield Leisure Centre	HERTS, AL10 8TJ	View Venue
Goffs- Churchgate Academy	Herts, EN8 9LY	View Venue
Bishop Challoner School	Kent, BR2 0BS	View Venue
Harris Primary Academy Orpington	Kent, BR5 4LZ	View Venue
Norbreck Primary Academy	Lancashire, FY5 1PD	View Venue
Westleigh High School – A College of Technology	Lancashire, WN7 5NL	View Venue
Falcons Primary School	Leicester, LE5 0TA	View Venue
Welland Park Academy	Leicestershire, LE16 9DR	View Venue
Hallsville Primary School	London, E16 1LN	View Venue
Scott Wilkie Primary School	London, E16 3HD	View Venue
The Bobby Moore Academy	London, E20 2AA	View Venue
Sandringham Primary School	London, E7 8ED	View Venue
St John’s Angell Town CofE Primary School	London, SW9 7HH	View Venue
The Acklam Green Centre	Middlesborough, TS5 4JS	View Venue
Oak Hill Academy	Middlesex, TW13 4QP	View Venue
The Thetford Academy	Norfolk, IP24 1LH	View Venue
Cliff Park Ormiston Academy	Norfolk, NR31 6TA	View Venue
St Michael’s VA Junior School	Norfolk, NR5 9LA	View Venue
Barlby High School	North Yorkshire, YO8 5JP	View Venue
Malcolm Arnold Academy	Northampton, NN2 6JW	View Venue
Higham Ferrers Junior School	Northamptonshire, NN10 8ED	View Venue
Ashby Fields Primary School	Northamptonshire, NN11 0YP	View Venue
Brambleside Primary School	Northamptonshire, NN16 9JG	View Venue
Morven Park Primary and Nursery School	Nottinghamshire, NG17 7BT	View Venue
Fernwood School	Nottinghamshire, NG8 2FT	View Venue
King’s Meadow Primary School	Oxfordshire, OX26 2LU	View Venue
Sheffield Park Academy	Sheffield, S2 1SN	View Venue
Sprowston Community Academy	Sprowston, NR7 8NE	View Venue
Ryecroft C.E. Middle School	Staffordshire, ST14 5NW	View Venue
Trentham Academy	Stoke On Trent, ST4 8PQ	View Venue
The Raleigh School	Surrey, KT24 6LX	View Venue
Plains Farm Primary School	Tyne and Wear, SR3 1SU	View Venue
St Cyres School	Vale of Glamorgan, CF64 2XP	View Venue
Bilton School	Warwickshire, CV22 7JT	View Venue
Racemeadow Primary School	Warwickshire, CV9 1LT	View Venue
Kings Heath Primary School	West Midlands, B14 7AJ	View Venue
Finham Park School	West Midlands, CV3 6EA	View Venue
Joseph Turner Primary School	West Midlands, DY4 0RN	View Venue
Ryders Hayes School	West Midlands, WS3 4HX	View Venue
North Lancing Primary School	West Sussex, BN15 0PT	View Venue
Bersted Green Primary School, Bognor Regis	West Sussex, PO22 9HT	View Venue
Seymour Primary School	West Sussex, RH11 9ES	View Venue

List correct as at 1 July 2019.