Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Summer Community lunch 2015 today. We enjoyed fantastic weather, good company and had fun with the raffle, which was drawn by our newest recruit Sean who will be joining us here at the POD as our Big Lottery Funded Safe Haven Coordinator from Mid September 2015.…
The Big Hoot 2015 and Free Radio held a big preview party this evening on the roof of the Iconic Fort Dunlop Building. It was amazing to see our owl Oliver in all his splendour along with the other 88 fantastic owls who are all getting ready to take their place across Birmingham for the…
Bloomsbury Fun Day 2015 – another fantastic day in the park and this year there was no rain! As usual the POD provided bathroom facilities and refreshments, including a range of delicious cakes provided by Savella and food provided by FareShare. Thanks to John Street from Free@last and everyone involved in ICANB7 it was a…
Lots of visitors came to see our owl Oliver today including Sophie Handy who was one of the artists who helped our community create this fantastic art work to show what Nechells means to everyone who lives and works in this amazing community. There is the Smurfit Kappa SSK recycling plant that we all call…
The DREAMS Summer fun programme is in full swing at the POD this week. Sixty children from three of our local primary schools are enjoying a week of activities including dance provided by spilt milk dance, sports provided by startagain project and for the creative session our artist in residence for the week is Sam…
Today we celebrated the end of the second year of the BookShare Project funded by Smurfit Kappa Foundation. Following the success of last years project the Foundation decided to very generously increase their sponsorship to include funding for topic boxes of books for pupils in year 7 at Heartlands E-ACT Academy and to provide a…
Shantel joined staff and children from Bloomsbury Nursery and Children’s Centre this morning for the opening ceremony of the Little Hoot Project. Everyone was very impressed with all the different designs used to decorate the little owls and they were especially please to see Olivia and Elsa our Nechells owls and looking forward to following…
Megan’s group took full advantage of the beautiful sunshine today and spent the morning in the POD’s outdoor learning area. The group had their final session for this term and will restart after the summer holiday break on Thursday 10th September 2015.
Thanks to Larry from Heartlands Academy for these great photos of the BookShare Celebration