Today was a happy day and a sad day at Nechells POD. Happy because we were celebrating the end of our Reaching Communities BIG Lottery funded Safe Haven Project and recognising the great contribution of some of our volunteers. Thanks to Giselle from the lottery who presented our volunteer certificates.Sad because Sheena will be leaving…
On Friday 11 May a group of 22 Nechells residents were invited by Shabana Mahmood to visit the Houses of Parliament. The actual trip was sorted out for us by Glenda Dunster and coach travel was funded by Near Neighbours and the Lottery. We had an amazing day, starting with a super smooth journey courtesy…
To celebrate Nechells POD’s 10th Anniversary we are sharing stories of people who have benefited from coming along to The POD. We would love to hear about how we have made positive changes in your life. Please speak to Shantel about your experiences.
Families took part in a great card making activity this morning with Lazo, who is one of our volunteers at the POD. Everyone had lots of ideas and made a beautiful range of cards to take home with them. We had some lovely feedback from both the parents and the youngsters including this comment from…
Today was a huge success! We’d like to thank everyone who took part and made it such a special day for us all. We had such good attendance throughout all of our sessions today from FiNs Fitness, to the Family sports with fantastic Dean from Active Parks, Animal in Hands and the Library ‘Mythical Creatures’…
Shabana Mahmood MP, who holds a monthly surgery at the POD invited the team to visit the Houses of Parliament today. Unfortunately both Sheena and Harry were ill and not able to come with us for this amazing experience. Shabana took time out of her busy schedule to take us on a tour which was…
Tracey from the NSPCC ChildLine team delivered presents for the children of Nechells this afternoon. The gifts were generously donated by the pupils of the St Peters & St Paul Primary School in Pype Hayes and will be greatly appreciated when we deliver them to our local children later this afternoon. Thank you to everyone…
Today Nechells POD treated 28 members of our community to a day out in star city. To begin the day Nechells POD staff took the families to Monster Mayhem with its indoor play area, where the children were able to run around and let off steam. After that, we all went to Pizza Hut…
Today we announced during Place of Welcome that Jack Babington has won the Nechells POD questionnaire prize of £25. We would like to thank everyone who has completed a questionnaire and took part in the competition. If you haven’t already completed a questionnaire please come in and fill one out to help us improve our…
Jack Babington joined our sewing group today and made this great wallet in his first lesson. Well done Jack! The rest of the group continued to make great progress with their dresses and other items they’re making. Keep up the good work everyone!