Nechells POD CIC have registered with Localgiving.com This allows POD supporters to make donations that will help us to continue with the work that we do in our community. Donations can be one off but at the moment there is the opportunity for the POD to claim matched funding for any donations that are made…
Red Nose Celebrations at the PODThe Nechells community held a coffee and cake morning and raised a wonderful £116 for Comic Relief. We took part in the “How will Jessie grow her hair back” sweepstake, held a raffle and sold cakes. The winner was Red Pompadour which had been chosen by Bernadette. We also invited…
Nechells EAZ ran a Space Themed Numeracy Event which St Joseph’s school very kindly hosted. Year 10 students from Heartlands Academy helped with the Maths Challenges and were a real credit to themeselves and great ambassadors for their school. Pupils in years 2, 3, 5 and 6 from Nechells, St Vincent’s, St Clement’s and St…
The GCSE English group celebrated finishing their course at their feedback session today. The students took their GCSE English Language exam yesterday and met up today with Barbara their Tutor from Heartlands Academy to say “thank you” and talk about how the exam had gone. The group celebrated with a big chocolate cake and wonderful…
Peggy and Winnie from the FiN group called into the POD this morning with some wonderful toys that have been donated by Peggy’s Grandson, who is a fire fighter based at Sheldon Fire Station. These wonderful clowns and the cuddly teddy must have taken hours of work to make as the detail on them is…
Today St Vincent’s took six coaches full of pupils and their families to Blackpool for the Annual Family outing to the seaside. The weather was fantastic, the sun shone all day while we swam in the sea, played in the sand and enjoyed football and team games. We had a wonderful day and got back…
The Summer DREAMS holiday programme began today there are 80 children registered to enjoy the next 8 fun packed days of activities. Today the children enjoyed sports with Oli, made Punch and Judy puppets with Ian and performed their own puppet shows, there was Bollywood and street dance fusion with Sohan and the children enjoyed…
Today is a very special day Noran and Zenia are travelling to London to visit the House of Lords – how exciting! Noran has been awarded a Jubilee Award for Service in recognition of all her hard work. The award will be presented by Lord Watson of Richmond CBE on behalf of the Jubilee Centre…
We had a wonderful afternoon at the House of Lords, we had our photographs taken for our security passes when we arrived and then waited for the other award winners from accross the country to arrive. We were not allowed to take photographs but Aidan The Jubilee Centre for Character and Values Manager was the…
The first week of the Summer 2013 DREAM programme was a great success. The weather was brilliant and everyone had a wonderful time. We start again in the morning with week two watch this space for more fun in the sun at the Place of Dreams.