The POD staff with some ladies and children from the Nechells community took an adventurous day trip to Cannock Chase today. This wonderful experience was funded through Birmingham This Girl Can and was a fantastic opportunity to try something new. It was amazing fun with our guide Veronica from Swinnerton Cycles. She led us on…
Professionals from BITA Pathways will be running a drop in advice and guidance session aiming to support people with mental health. They will be here at the Nechells POD on Monday 30th January from 1:00pm – 3:00pm.
This week our Sewing Class learned how to make aprons, they have all been enjoying the chance to come together and sew as a group. Thank you to Lynette for being such a supportive teacher while helping and encouraging the group.
What a fabulous morning we had at The POD! The whole community came together to design the decoration for our bears. Noran explained the theme. We are basing our design on being neighbourly, being kind, respectful and tolerant and celebrating friendship-everything that knits the Nechells community together.. Claire , our artist, ran workshops to help…
We have two weekly After School activities for families running here at the POD. We have a family Craft Cub and Healthy Eating/Cooking which is run by BPCN every Wednesday from 4:00pm – 5:30pm. Also we have Family Fitness activities every Thursday from 4.00pm – 5.30pm.
Today our sewing class made some beautiful baby blankets. Each week our sewing class challenge themselves by being creative and crafting beautiful things like these baby blankets. If you would like to get involved contact the POD to be put on a waiting list for this class.
Over the weekend their were a number of Great Get Together events all around England which were celebrating Jo Cox’s belief that we all have many things in common and that ‘we have more in common than that which divides us’. We held our Great Get Together event on Saturday 17th June 2017, we had over 140 guests…
We will be running a full one week programme from Monday 31st July 2017 to Friday 4th August 2017 from 9.30 am to 3.00 pm each day. The programme will be £10 per child, for children of POD users and children must be aged between 5 to 11 years old. Please register your child/children’s name…
Today we had our FiNs trip out to Evesham Country Park. The FiNs( Friends in Nechells) enjoyed going round the wide variety of outlets available and were able to buy things such as clothes,gifts and household essentials. After their shopping trip to Evesham Country Park, we headed for a carvery meal at the Toby Carvery…
Today our new Sensory Play & Stay group started. Thank you to Bloomsbury Nursery and Children’s Centre for running this activity at the POD. All the children who attended loved playing and exploring new games at this weeks session. A reminder for everyone who has signed up for this group it is on every Tuesday…