Out-of-School Clubs and Groups
Practical tools and expert-backed guidance to keep children with food allergies aged 5–16 safe beyond the classroom.
A dedicated toolkit for clubs, camps and societies.
Children with food allergies should be safe wherever they play, learn, and grow. These resources empower clubs, holiday camps, and out-of-school settings to take confident, informed steps to prevent allergic reactions and respond effectively when needed.
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Food Allergy Safety: Best Practice Resources for Out-of-School Settings
This section provides a comprehensive set of resources to help you build a food allergy-aware culture in your organisation. Whether you’re running a weekend club, sports session, or an extended holiday programme, these tools have been designed to support your team in keeping children safe.*
Poster: Top 5 Best Practices
These five best practices are a great starting point for any setting.
Use the poster in staff rooms or welcome packs to reinforce good daily habits to keep children with food
Guidance for managing Food Allergy Risks in out-of-school activities
A guide to the essentials needed to manage food allergy risks more effectively in out of school settings such as after-school clubs, trips, residential, holiday camps and grassroots programmes.
Food Allergy Safety Dynamic Risk Assessment – For Residential, Holiday and Camp
Food allergy risk management should be dynamic, practical, and tailored to your setting.
These two tools help you assess your riskand the actions you need to take in different types of out-of-school environments.
Food Allergy Safety Checklist – For Clubs, Short or Repeated out of school Sessions
Designed for high-turnover, short-durationout of school sessions.
A simple checklist staff can use before and after sessions to make sure snacks are safe, staff are informed, and emergency plans are in place.
*These tools are intended as a supportive resource and should be used alongside your organisation’s own procedures and professional judgement.
Allergy School has teamed up with leading first aid charity St John Ambulance to create a film explaining how to respond to a food allergy emergency.
Sign up to Allergy School to access resources on the steps to take in the event of a food allergy emergency.
Display Allergy School’s First Aid Poster
Download our poster on first aid for anaphylaxis. You can display it in every classroom, on staff and club noticeboards.
Do you have a policy in place for children with allergies?
There are two types of AAI, Epipen and Jext, know how to use both correctly.
These instruction sheets will help you.
Display our poster on the top 14 allergens
Use this poster to raise awareness of the top 14 allergens.
Engaging Children in Food Allergy Awareness
Help children understand food allergies, build empathy and responsibility within groups. Our Allergy School team, in collaboration with LMP Group, a national organisation that develops education programmes and activities, delivered this food allergy awareness activity pack across eight sessions for young people transitioning from Year 6 to secondary school.
These activities were designed to help pupils understand what food allergies are, how to recognise the signs of an allergic reaction, how to respond in an emergency, and how to support their peers who live with food allergies in everyday school life.
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Allergy Aim
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Allergy Ally
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Supermarket Challenge
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OOSS Flashcards Resource
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What clubs are saying about Allergy School
“Those who teach children in out of school activities, such as dance clubs, do not often have the resources or the networks to stay up-to-date with the medical conditions which the children they teach may have.
Thanks to the work of The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, they now have a simple set of resources which will help immensely.”
Professor Peter Flew
Chair, Safer Dance – the Dance School Safeguarding Working Group
‘We are SAADI Gymnastics Club in Hertfordshire. We became aware of Allergy School from one of our parents whose child has multiple food allergies. It has been so useful to use and learn from your website, educate all our members and staff and keep our members safe.
Your site has made us think about procedures, awareness and prevention.”
Cat Brooke
Director of SAADI Gymnastics
