Our Nechells Zone schools, Bloomsbury, Cromwell, Nechells, St Clement’s, St Joseph’s, St Vincent’s and Heartlands all came together today at the Alexander Stadium for the third annual zone games, the sun shone and we all had a fantastic day. All the medals and trophies were sponsored by Smurfit Kappa SSK and presented by Red Watch…
The FiNs had another great keep fit session with Marlon today, they worked with weights and even tried boxersize! As a special treat for all working so hard the group enjoyed fresh strawberries from the POD allotment with a little dash of cream – yum yum!
The beautiful sunny weather we have been having has ripened the currents and the last of the strawberry crop and brought our first harvest of peas, a new crop for the POD allotment!
The Bloomsbury Active Parks Project sponsored by Coca-Cola got some new recruits for the Tai Chi lesson today when our lovely Police Community Support Officers joined our local residents for their weekly Tai Chi Session. Everyone enjoyed the gentle exercise in the sunshine with our instructor Dave and felt the Chi! (energy) flow as we…
There were lot of families at Megan’s Family Learning session this week. Everyone enjoyed singing in group time before going outside to play.
Living Histories Group Yesterday was the second meeting of the Living Histories Group. This is open to anyone over 60 (or thereabouts) who would like to reminisce about their lives and times in Nechells. We’ve been talking about where we all came from – so far only one person was born in Nechells! We’ve…
On the morning of Saturday 20th September there was a Nechells Clear Up event organised by Churches Together in Nechells that brought together volunteers from the local community, statutory and voluntary organisations. The morning started with litter-picking and then there was a community BBQ. 70 people litter-picked across Nechells, with St Matthews Church, The POD…
The Autumn term weekly Food Net “Cook and Taste” sessions are weel under way, today was week three and the group made a delicious fish pie and fruit crumble, the POD has been filled with the most amazing aromas and has made everyone feel very hungry!
The term as part of the Numeracy Programme students from Aston University have been working with pupils in zone schools on a variety of Numeracy based activities, this culminated in a Pirate Challenge Event held at Heartlands Academy which brought all the schools involved together for a fun day with maths! Teachers commented: The maths…
Yousef from free@last held an information session at the POD on the New Benefit changes which come into affect fro 1st April 2015 and how these may affect claims. For more information on benefits or debt advice come and talk to Yousef at the POD on Tuesday mornings. To avoid disappointment if the sessions are…