School holiday clubs for older kids, juggling full time work

[Junglemum4281]

I’ve been offered a new full time job which is office based, non negotiable. I can’t work out how to juggle that and school holidays. I’m a single parent with no family support. I work from home at the moment so haven’t had to rely on holiday clubs etc previously. My eldest is 12 so I’m struggling with where he could go. Is it doable??? I’ve got 6 weeks of leave but 13 weeks of school holidays 😩. What do others do?

I think you'd struggle getting a 12yo to a holiday club tbh.

Maybe if they have a specific interest such as theatre, cricket etc as there are often week long camps for these. However, generally 10-2 or similar so would need to be somewhere that's walkable to.

I have three boys. Oldest was happy and sensible to be on his own, but if my youngest had to be he wouldn't cope. Where I live there are sports clubs for up to 13 yrs old, roughly £25 a day.

Prep school holiday clubs often take to 13 or PGL ?

Sports day camps usually run up to about 15/16yo. May also be worth seeing if you can budget a week for them at PGL.

Can you give a clue whereabouts you are ?

Sure, I’m in Merseyside

Looks like these people do up to 17
https://www.kingscamps.org/

More ideas here
https://all4kidsuk.com/holiday-clubs-and-courses-childrens/merseyside