HAF Activities for Holiday Clubs in Essex & London
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Essex Soft Play Bus
Looking for exciting HAF activities or holiday club activities for younger children? Essex Soft Play Bus brings our three-floor double-decker soft play experience directly to schools, community groups and HAF providers across Essex and London.
With space for up to 30 children at a time, our Soft Play Bus offers an active, inclusive and completely hassle-free HAF activity that children love.
Soft Play Bus Essex & Soft Play Bus London HAF Activities
Looking for exciting HAF activities that younger children will genuinely want to take part in? Our Soft Play Bus Essex and Soft Play Bus London experience brings a three-floor mobile soft play centre directly to your HAF club, school or venue, with space for up to 30 children at a time.
Children can climb, crawl, slide, balance and explore across three floors filled with interactive soft play equipment. This gives HAF providers an exciting physical and social activity within one simple booking.
What’s Included:
- 🚌 Three floors of purpose-built soft play
- 🛝 Two slides from the top deck to the lower deck
- 🔮 Illuminated ball pits with UV and neon lighting
- 🌀 Biff Bashers, Wrecking Ball and Dizzy Discs
- 🎯 Ball Blasters, Ball Juggler and Tipping Bucket
- 🧗 Climbing wall, cargo nets, crawl tubes and hanging vines
- 🎶 Onboard music
- 👥 Space for up to 30 children at a time
- 🙌 Experienced host onboard throughout the booking
- ✅ DBS-checked staff
- 🛡️ Public liability insurance
- 📋 Risk assessments available
- 🩹 First-aid kit onboard
- 🔍 Soft play equipment inspected annually and the bus inspected every 12 weeks
- 🔌 Simple setup — suitable parking and access to a standard power socket
For larger HAF programmes, we can organise timed rotations, allowing more children to take part throughout the visit. Our Soft Play Bus can also be booked alongside our Gaming Bus or Pamper Bus, providing different holiday club activities for a wider range of ages and interests.
How It Works:
Tell us your date, venue postcode, children’s ages, group size and session requirements. We’ll confirm access and recommend suitable timings and rotations.
We arrive ready to go and manage the bus throughout your booking. Your team remains responsible for supervising the children in line with your usual staffing ratios.
Inclusive HAF Activities for SEND & SEN Children
We understand that every child experiences active play differently. Our Soft Play Bus can work particularly well for SEND and SEN children because sessions can be adapted around the individual needs of the group.
Music and lighting can be reduced or switched off, group sizes can be kept smaller and children can be given additional time to settle and explore the bus at their own pace.
For some children, a private session with familiar adults can feel more comfortable than a busy public soft play centre. This makes our bus a flexible choice for HAF providers looking for inclusive holiday club activities where children can play, socialise and build confidence.
For more information about our SEND and school sessions, please click here.
🧠 Sensory-Adjustable Environment
Every session can be tailored to your young peoples’ needs.
Lighting Options
* UV & neon lighting
* Standard white lighting
* Reduced lighting for calmer sessions
Sound Options
* Upbeat music
* Low background music
* No music
👥 Private & Controlled Sessions
Unlike public soft play centres:
* No strangers
* No overcrowding
* No shared space
* No unpredictable interruptions
The bus is exclusively hired for your organisation.
Children attend with their classmates and familiar staff in a contained, structured environment.
The bus can hold up to 30 children, but group sizes can be reduced to support regulation and comfort.
🌙🧸 Calm Lighting
✨💡Party Lighting
Trusted by HAF Providers, Schools & Community Organisations
Essex Soft Play Bus has delivered exciting HAF activities for holiday clubs, schools and community organisations across Essex and London. Our three-floor mobile soft play centre gives younger children a fun, active and inclusive experience while keeping everything simple for HAF organisers.
⭐ What Our HAF Partners Say
Nothing speaks louder than feedback from the HAF providers we’ve worked with. Here’s what our partners have said about their experience with Essex Soft Play Bus.
Where We Deliver HAF Activities
Across Essex Soft Play Bus and our sister mobile activity services, we have worked with HAF providers, schools and local authorities throughout Essex and London. From individual holiday clubs to large multi-site programmes, we tailor our visits around each provider’s timetable, age groups and number of children.
HAF & Holiday Programme Providers
- Allstars Sports & Mentor Academy
- CMXSC Active Camps
- FITC Academy
- Get the Kids Out
- Inspire Minds Through Sports
- JTD Arts Ltd
- Kids in Charge
- Mini Champs
- Mistley Kids Club
- Outburst
- Parallel Sports Coaching
- SECAT
- Skill Sports
- Space 4 Me
- Splat Club
- SportsCool
- Strike Academy
- The PE Specialists
Councils & Local Authorities
- Barking and Dagenham Council
- Barnet Council
- Bromley Council
- Broxbourne Borough Council
- Castle Point Borough Council
- Essex ActivAte
- Newham Council
- Southend City Council
- Thurrock Council
🎯Schools & SEND Organisations We Have Worked With
Specialist Autism & SEND Schools
* The Grove School – North London
* Cedar Hall – Benfleet
* Chatten Free School – Witham
* St Ann’s School – Ealing
* Linden Bridge School – Sutton
* The Ark Centre
* Haven House
* Learning in Harmony
* Motivated Mind
* Space4me – Beckton Community Centre
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. We can invoice your holiday club or organisation directly. Where a council is funding the booking, we can also be set up on the council’s supplier system and invoice in line with its purchase-order and payment process.
Up to 30 children can take part one time, however, we can organise rotations throughout the session if you would prefer smaller groups. We can adjust group sizes to your needs
We need suitable, safe parking for the soft play bus – Around 3 car parking spaces and access to a standard power socket.
Yes. Our Soft Play Bus can be adapted to support SEND children, including reducing music volume, adjusting lighting and offering calmer sessions where needed. We can also work with providers to plan smaller groups or quieter rotations to suit individual needs.
Yes. DBS information, public liability insurance and risk assessments are available on request.
Yes. We can run the Soft Play Bus in timed rotations throughout the day, allowing larger groups of children to take part across multiple sessions. Content
🛡 Safety & Compliance
- Fully DBS checked staff
- Full Public Liability Insurance
- Risk Assessments
- Regular vehicle servicing and safety checks
- We work alongside your staff team.
Supervision remains with HAF staff in line with safeguarding best practice
More HAF Activity Ideas
Looking for more HAF ideas? Alongside our soft play bus, we also offer Gaming Bus and Pamper Bus experiences, giving HAF providers even more holiday club activities for different ages, interests and group needs.
📩 Request a HAF Soft Play Bus Quote
Tell us your preferred date, venue postcode, group size and requirements, and we’ll recommend the right setup and provide a tailored quote for your HAF activity. Or give us a call and ask for Laura
📞 07498 554703
📩 or email laura@essexgamingbus.co.uk
📱 Text/WhatsApp Laura on 07498 554703
