Holiday Activities & Food • Summer 2026

A HAF catering provider

like no other.

We roll the kitchen onto your site. Compliant HAF meals, done properly. Live fire street kitchen, cooked on site.

Compliant HAF meals done properly, plus a street kitchen we roll onto your site and children's food workshops in partnership with UCB. Ready for summer 2026.

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Tier 1 • The fundable core

The HAF Meal

It ticks every box, and the children actually enjoy it.

A hot, compliant, allergen coded meal that ticks every box in your HAF funding and tastes like something a child actually wants to eat.

A range of HAF meals in sealed trays of curries, rice, pasta, couscous and noodles

Real meals. Real variety. Freshness locked in & heat sealed.

Heat sealed meal trays serving 1, 10 or 20. Hot and ready, or chilled to reheat on site.

What's included in every HAF meal

Hot Main Meal

Cooked fresh and heat sealed in its own tray, individually packed options available.

A Drink Included

Every meal comes with a drink, sorted, no extras to think about.

Fresh Fruit

Fresh fruit or a fruit pot in every single meal, never an afterthought.

Napkin & Cutlery

Sustainable cutlery and a napkin in the pack, ready to eat anywhere.

Veg & Vegan Daily

A vegetarian or vegan option every single day, made to match.

Full Allergen Labelling

Clearly coded against all 14 named allergens on every dish.

Tier 2 • HAF+

That's the meal.
This is Beyond the Lunchbox.

Any caterer can drop off a tray. What makes Mahirs a catering provider like no other is what comes next. A live street kitchen on your site, and a community restaurant where children earn real skills. This is the enrichment your HAF funding is built to reward.

HAF+ • We come to you

The Mobile
Street Kitchen

We roll the whole thing onto your site.

Our Nivana Street Kitchen brings the full setup to your venue. The 14ft food trailer, the pizza trailer, the live BBQ grill and our iconic pink Piaggio Ape tuk tuk. Fresh food cooked in front of your children, not dropped off in a box.

▪ 14ft food trailer, pizza trailer, live BBQ grill and the pink Piaggio Ape tuk tuk

▪ Fresh food cooked live in front of your children for real enrichment value

▪ A visible attraction that makes your programme stand out and scores on HAF enrichment outcomes

▪ West Midlands coverage across Sandwell, Solihull, Nechells and beyond. Ideal for 50 to 300+ children.

Pizza workshops and summer BBQ options available, subject to availability.

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The Nivana Street Kitchen 14ft food trailer lit up at dusk, fully branded and serving on site

The full trailer • On your site

Nivana Street Kitchen team training, the branded trailer and naan pizza preparation

Real skills • Training future chefs

Nivana Street Kitchen trailer with the pink Piaggio Ape tuk tuk and chefs cooking live

Trailer, tuk tuk & live cooking

Nivana Street Kitchen team and trailer with the loaded naan pizza menu

Loaded naans • Home of the loaded naan

That's how we feed them.

Here's how we change things.

Bluebell Wood • University College Birmingham

A Mahirs Foundation Programme

HAF+ • Workshops • Bring your group to us

Going further
than a lunchbox.

This summer, Mahirs Foundation is running children's food workshops in partnership with Bluebell Wood, the community restaurant at Chelmsley Wood Shopping Centre, owned and managed by University College Birmingham, with its Chelmsley Starters culinary school next door.

Children don a chef hat, work alongside a real chef and make their own naan pizza, Indian flavours meeting the nation's favourite, on one base. They learn kitchen skills, food hygiene and where good food comes from, and leave with a Junior Chef certificate that says: you made this.

Real skills. A real restaurant. A real sense of belonging.

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Mahirs and University College Birmingham chefs at Chelmsley Starters, Bluebell Wood

Mahirs & UCB • Chelmsley Starters

Mahirs Indian food spread at Bluebell Wood

Our food, in the space

Make Their Own

Each child makes a naan pizza from scratch alongside a real chef, Indian flavours meeting the nation's favourite.

Junior Chef Certificate

Kitchen skills, food hygiene and confidence, with a certificate to take home that says they did it themselves.

A Real Restaurant

Held at Bluebell Wood in partnership with University College Birmingham, in the heart of the community.

Bluebell sits in a community that deserves opportunity, belonging and a brighter future. These workshops are our commitment to that. Not a service, but the reason Mahirs Foundation exists.

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A menu that changes. Quality that doesn't.

Food They Actually Want

We build a fresh menu around each programme, with a meat option and a matching vegan or vegetarian alternative every day, and full allergen coding against all 14 named allergens on every dish. Previous options have included dishes such as these, and there are many more to choose from.

Menu 1

Main

Butter Chicken & Vegetable Rice

Veg / Vegan

Vegetable Jalfrezi & Vegetable Rice

Snack

Fresh fruit / fruit medley pot

Drink

Spring water

Menu 2

Main

Chicken Manchurian with Noodles & Vegetables

GU, CE, SE, SO

Veg / Vegan

Veggie Manchurian with Noodles & Vegetables

GU, CE, SE, SO

Snack

Fresh fruit / fruit medley pot

Drink

Spring water

Menu 3

Main

Chicken Meatball Pasta with Tomato & Vegetables

GU, SO, CE

Veg / Vegan

Vegetable Meatball Pasta with Tomato & Vegetables

GU, SO, CE

Snack

Fresh fruit / fruit medley pot

Drink

Spring water

Menu 4

Main

Beef & Vegetable Lasagne

GU, DA

Veg / Vegan

Roasted Vegetable Lasagne

GU, DA

Snack

Fresh fruit / fruit medley pot

Drink

Spring water

Menu 5

Main

Piri Piri Chicken with Tex Mex Vegetable Rice & Corn on the Cob

Veg / Vegan

Halloumi Skewers with Tex Mex Vegetable Rice & Corn on the Cob

Snack

Fresh fruit / fruit medley pot

Drink

Spring water

Menu 6

Main

Chicken Sausages with Mash, Gravy & Peas

Veg / Vegan

Veggie Sausages with Mash, Gravy & Peas

Snack

Fresh fruit / fruit medley pot

Drink

Spring water

Menu 7

Main

Chicken Kebab with Flatbread & Couscous

GU, SE

Veg / Vegan

Soya Kebab with Flatbread & Couscous

GU, SE, SO

Snack

Fresh fruit / fruit medley pot

Drink

Spring water

Menu 8

Street Kitchen

Stone baked naan pizza

Loaded Naan Pizza with grilled chicken or paneer

GU, DA

Veg / Vegan

Loaded Naan Pizza with paneer

GU, DA

Snack

Fresh fruit / fruit medley pot

Drink

Spring water

Menu 8 & grilled options

Available through our Mobile Street Kitchen as an add on experience, subject to availability. Some grilled and BBQ items are not available as part of the standard HAF meal.

Allergen codes: CE celery, GU gluten, SO soya, SE sesame, DA milk. Halal options are available. All vegetarian alternatives are vegan unless marked vegetarian. All food is prepared in kitchens where allergens are present, so we cannot guarantee any dish is free from traces. A full allergen matrix is provided for every programme.

Built around your programme.

One kitchen. Every format.

No other HAF provider in the West Midlands gives you this much choice. You pick the pack size, how it arrives, and how it's served, and we build the rest around you.

Choose your pack size

Heat Sealed Meal Tray (Serves 1)
Heat Sealed Meal Tray (Serves 10)
Heat Sealed Meal Tray (Serves 20)

Choose delivery

We deliver to your site
or
you collect from us

Choose how it's served

Hot & ready to serve
or
chilled to reheat on site

Pack size

Hot Delivered

Hot Collected

Chilled Collection

Heat Sealed Meal Tray (Serves 1)

✓

Heat Sealed Meal Tray (Serves 10)

✓

Heat Sealed Meal Tray (Serves 20)

✓

Fully fundable within HAF

Every format is priced to sit comfortably within your HAF funding. Nothing comes out of the provider's pocket.

Pricing on enquiry

We tailor a quote to your pack size, fulfilment and numbers. Send an enquiry and we'll send your formats and pricing.

Operational standards that matter.

How We Deliver

On time, every time.

▪We operate a delivery window and aim to arrive as close as possible to your preferred time.

▪Heat sealed trays maintain food quality and temperature during transport across multiple sites.

▪Sandwell, Solihull, Nechells and the wider West Midlands already covered.

Compliance built in.

★★★★★

Double 5 Star Food Safety Excellence

Proudly awarded the highest possible rating by both the Food Standards Agency and Food Alert Independent Auditors.

▪Every meal meets the School Food Standards required by the HAF programme.

▪Full allergen matrix available on request. Registered food business.

▪Natasha's Law compliant labelling on every meal.

Flexible by design.

▪No minimum commitment beyond a 10 meal order. No formal tie in.

▪Numbers flex around your camp from 10 to 300+ children.

▪Individual meals or multipacks. You choose what works for your site.

▪Register your interest for a bespoke quote for your programme dates.

Proof at Every Level

HAF meals are prepared and delivered by our catering partner Mahirs Experience Ltd, the five star rated kitchen with over twenty years of experience and the team behind the food at the scale below.

Commonwealth Games 2022

100,000 Meals to 5,000+ Athletes

Birmingham Principal Athletes' Village

National scale operation delivered with consistency, quality and care. The benchmark others in this space cannot reach. Fuelling the next generation of athletes.

Multi Academy Trust Partnership

Daily Hot School Meals

Full turnkey solution

A partnership delivering daily hot school meals to a multi academy trust. Everyday meals done properly, on budget, on time, every term. The same approach applies to HAF.

HAF Open Day, January 2026

Hawthorns Court, West Bromwich

Providers from across the West Midlands

In January 2026, Mahirs hosted HAF providers for an informal lunch to show what sits behind the food: the team, the compliance, the preparation and the approach to delivery at scale. Arrange a visit and see for yourself.

More than food. Real social value.

Choosing Mahirs is a
social value decision.

Mahirs Foundation CIC is the community and social impact arm of the Mahirs group. Every programme we deliver feeds back into our wider mission of training, opportunity and stronger communities.

For providers, choosing a Community Interest Company carries real weight: it strengthens the social value of your programme and the case behind your HAF funding.

Real Skills

Young people in real kitchens

Real Jobs

Employment for the community

Real Futures

A brighter community future

In good company.