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G.A.P Academy -Empower Arts Experience
Each day children will take part in structured physical activities designed to promote health, coordination and teamwork. Sessions include Street Dance, Contemporary, Jazz, Musical Theatre and Acrobatics Arts, blending dance and gymnastics to improve balance, flexibility, and strength. Daily warm-ups, indoor games, and mini sports tournaments such as football, relay races and team challenges ensure children meet the recommended activity levels. Movement-based games are tailored for all abilities, supporting confidence and enjoyment of exercise. Family fitness days and dance-offs encourage parents and carers to get active alongside their children, reinforcing healthy lifestyles beyond the sessions.
Our enrichment offer uses performing and creative arts to build resilience, teamwork, and emotional expression. Children explore acting, music, art and media projects that strengthen communication, imagination and problem-solving. They will write and record original songs, design costumes, create props and take part in mini-performances that celebrate teamwork and personal growth.
Creative reflection journals and group discussions help participants build self-awareness and wellbeing. Activities are designed to boost confidence, literacy and cultural appreciation while developing transferable skills such as leadership, discipline, and collaboration—key to raising attainment and aspiration.
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Please await your 16-digit code, this will be distributed by schools in the form of an email or text. Please only enter the HAF Pincode if applicable.
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About Us
‘GAP Entertainment C.I.C. has a proven track record of delivering impactful, youth-led programmes for children and young people aged 5–25 across Birmingham and the Black Country. Our work is rooted in creating inclusive, safe, and empowering environments where young people can explore their identity, build life skills, and access creative and professional opportunities.
Recent Delivery Experience:
• The Creative Collective (2023–2024)
A 12-month programme supporting over 40 ethnically diverse young people (aged 12–24) to co-create original productions in film, music, theatre, and dance. Participants gained portfolio experience, confidence, and real-world creative industry exposure, culminating in a final public showcase.
• Youth Leadership & Mentoring Programme
Weekly sessions delivered in partnership with local schools and youth services, focused on resilience, communication, and mental health. Young leaders were trained to co-facilitate and mentor peers, increasing community ownership and peer-to-peer learning.
• Stage School Holiday and After-School Enrichment Projects
Since 2013 we have delivered performing arts creative wellbeing, life skills and physical activities during school holidays, weekends and evenings for children aged 4–16. These sessions combined fun with personal growth and always maintained strong safeguarding and behavioural protocols.
What Makes Us Unique:
• Youth-Led Ethos: Our programmes are co-designed with young people, ensuring relevance, authenticity, and empowerment.
• Creative Industry Pathways: We specialise in combining creativity with employability, giving participants hands-on experience in music, drama, and digital content.
• Community-Based Delivery: Located in an accessible, welcoming space—GAP Entertainment Studios—we provide continuity, safety, and a sense of belonging.
• Inclusive & Trauma-Informed Practice: We work closely with SEND participants, those at risk of exclusion, and those facing social disadvantage, always underpinned by robust safeguarding.
Through our creative and mentoring approach, we not only meet young people where they are—we help them reach -
What benefits can you expect from this?
We are providing our community with an open-access community space with well-being activities that improve young people’s kinesthetics and cognitive development. Our safe space allows youth to find fulfilment in their areas of interest; with provisions that turn passions into purpose; which they can then share with others. The enhanced social skills gained during these holiday clubs will be instrumental in shaping their futures; with the ability to adapt to an ever-changing society. They have the freedom to explore their areas of interests which they previously had no access to due to financial barriers.
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What makes your activity unique?
G.A.P Academy is no ordinary holiday club, we an accredited arts academy with specialist instructors. Over the last 10 years we have worked with thousands of young people providing regular performing arts sessions. We are proud to say that our young people have achieved great success during their time training with us, we have produced regional choir champions, dance champions and many of our children have successfully auditioned and appeared in theatre, film, television & radio. The G.A.P Kids have also starred in their very own kids TV show, ‘The G.A.P Kids Show’ which aired on Sky.
DANCE
Over the recent years dance has become a worldwide phenomenon and has become ever so popular amongst young people. The skills and technique you learn through dance are invaluable whether it is ballet or hip-hop. It is also a fun way to keep fit and healthy, working all parts of the body.Our dance program includes;
• Hip- Hop, Contemporary, Jazz, Lyrical, Musical Theatre & Afro dance stylesDRAMA
Acting is all to do with portraying and conveying character. Acting enables a person to think about others by putting themselves in somebody else’s shoes. By portraying different characters the youth will learn about the different types of people in this world.
Participants involved in Drama will benefit from;
• Learning different acting styles & technique from stage, screen, abstract to musical theatre
• Creating original plays for performance
• Filming, videos, short films, web shows etc. (with Media Arts class)MUSIC
Music is a powerful medium, an international language that speaks to people’s hearts and allows room for creative freedom where all partakers have a voice. At G.A.P we have all areas covered, from music composition, song writing to performance & vocal technique.Pupils can benefit from;
• Private & group Vocal Coaching
• Playing an instrument
• Writing & composing music.
• Singing in a Show ChoirMEDIA
It is important for pupils to know that there is so much more that goes into media production than what can be seen on screen. Participants will not only learn media theory but practice and work in small production groups with every member fulfilling a role as a writer, producer, director, camera or editor.Through Media Arts members will;
• Study both theoretical & practical Media
• Learn how to create different types of media, animation, graphic design
• Learn how to write, produce, direct, film and edit
• Learn how to use industry softwareLIFE SKILLS
A GAP we set ourselves a part from other arts organisations. We do not just educate we engage, edify and empower and allow young people to experience arts from a purpose driven perspective and encourage them to use arts to aid them through life. We let the young people lead from their own dreams and aspirations , we allow them to set their own goals and guide them with steps to help them achieve. We are firm believers in stewardship and developing leaders. The young people are taught to teach so that they can be the difference make in another persons life. Our life skills classes target a young persons, mental, social and psychological needs through arts and creativity.
What they say about us
“There were many activities that my 10 year old got involved in & thoroughly enjoyed!!”
“She made many friends and the staff were approachable and encouraging too.”
“They enjoyed the activities and making new friends.”
To book a place, parents/carers must register their child via the Holiday Activities (E-Vouchers) platform using their 16-digit HAF code. Only children aged 5–13 (Reception to Year 8) who are eligible for benefits-related Free School Meals or meet the extended criteria will be accepted.
Once booked through the platform, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to complete our internal registration form, including emergency contacts, medical details, and consent. This must be submitted no later than 5 working days before the start of the programme.
Children should arrive wearing comfortable clothing and trainers suitable for physical activity. For dance and acrobatics sessions, we recommend leggings or jogging bottoms and a t-shirt. If a child requires specific support or adjustments, please inform us during registration so we can prepare accordingly.
Please ensure punctual drop-off and pick-up to avoid disruption to scheduled activities. Attendance will be recorded daily and monitored via the E-Voucher system. Parents are responsible for notifying us in advance of any absences.