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…
The POD are taking place in the City Wide Big Hoot Project and today Noran and our work experience pupils from Heartland Academy went to bring our baby Big Hoot owl home to the POD.
Our work experience students Amir and Rajpal joined it the keep fit session with Marlon today, it was a great session and the FiNs enjoyed the students company.
Residents from Nechells took part in a “Love Food, Hate Waste“ training session at the POD. Everybody enjoyed the session and learned such a lot about making a difference in fighting food waste in the UK. We now know that throwing food away has a significant impact, both environmentally and financially. We are now committed…
Great news for Nechells POD. Today, 1 June 2015, Nechells POD starts the Safe Haven project funded through the BIG Lottery, Reaching Communities grant. We are really excited as this will mean we can support Nechells residents with training and sessions that will help them into employment, education or volunteering. We will also be further…
The Jubilee Centre who are part of Birmingham University have just sent the POD a link to a film they have made about what gratitude means to people. The POD was visited and filmed as part of this production click here to see what Gratitude means across the UK and to our community in Nechells.…
The olympic spirit came back to Nechells schools today, the 2015 relay took place between our Zone schools in preparation for the Nechells Zone Games which will take place next Friday 19th June at the Alexander Stadium. This year the cups medals and ice creams have all been sponsored by Homebase. Thank you Homebase it…
The Annual Nechells Zone Games took place today at the Alexander Stadium. Almost 1000 pupils, parents and staff came together for a fantastic day of sports and activities.The medals, cups and ice creams were all sponsored by a generous donation of £1,000 by Homebase through our Ladywood Business in the Community Connector Simon Jennings. The…
Today we got the disc with the photographs of the Nechells Zone Games taken by Larry from Heartlands they are brilliant, thanks Larry!
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…