Walthamstow & nearby · Summer 2026 · every fact checked 9–12 June 2026
Every holiday camp in and around E17 — plus a few just over the border in Chingford and Tottenham — with verified dates, prices, day lengths and free council-funded places, plus a week-by-week planner that adds up the cost as you go.
Term dates from the Waltham Forest Council calendar (2025-26 & 2026-27 holiday patterns) — individual schools can vary, so confirm yours. October half term: Mon 26 – Fri 30 Oct 2026.
Tell the planner each child's age so every list, price and picker is filtered to camps that actually take them.
Browse the directory, tap ♥ on anything promising, then compare hours, prices and food side by side.
Assign a camp (or annual leave, or grandparents) to each week. The planner totals the cost and flags uncovered weeks.
Step 1
Saved on this device only — nothing leaves your browser.
Step 2 · Directory
No camps match those filters. Try widening the day length or price, or clear the “confirmed dates” toggle — lots of providers publish summer dates late June.
Shortlist
Tap the ♥ on any camp card and it appears here, side by side — hours, prices, food and funding in one view.
Step 3 · The grid
Tap any cell to choose a camp for that child and week — or mark it as annual leave, family cover or a friend swap. Costs use verified prices where published; everything else shows as “£?” until you confirm with the provider. Once you've actually booked a week, tick booked on its cell — the budget below counts your bookings. When it's settled, Add to calendar downloads the whole plan for your Apple, Outlook or Google calendar — every camp as an all-day event with venue, hours and booking link. Two ways to share: Tell other parents copies the plain planner link with no names and no plan — that's the one to post in a school group, and everyone who opens it gets their own private, blank planner. Share my plan (private) is different: it packs your children's names and camps into the link itself (nothing is uploaded), so only ever send that one to a partner or family — never a group.
Add a child above to unlock the grid. The planner builds one column per child across all six weeks of summer 2026.
Make it cheaper
If your child gets benefits-related free school meals, the council's Holiday Activities & Food programme funds free camp places with a meal included. Summer sessions appear on the Eequ feed in the run-up to the holidays.
Check the live HAF listFor every £8 you pay in, the government adds £2 (up to £500 every 3 months per child, usually until the September after their 11th birthday). The provider must be Ofsted-registered and signed up — ask for their registration number before paying.
Set up on GOV.UKSeveral providers knock money off for second children or early booking — it's flagged on the camp cards. Booking two children into the same camp the same week is also the easiest drop-off logistics you'll ever have.
The classic money-saving pattern: anchor must-work weeks with a full-day club (£36–£65/day), drop in one special week your child will rave about (theatre, science — £150–£345/week), and cover the rest with annual leave and family. The planner prices each mix as you build it.
Council-funded route
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Before you book
Ten minutes on these now saves a fraught first morning later. Ticks are saved on this device, and the checklist prints with your plan.
Verification