As Kay our Plus Fit instructor is on Holiday this week the FiN group visited the Birmingham New Library this morning. The weather was not brilliant, so unfortunately we did not get to see much of the secret gardens, but as we arrived early we had the Shakespeare memorial room all to ourselves and the…
The Parent and Child language group celebrated the end of term with a party today. The group will restart on Thursday 9th January 2014 930-11.30am if you and you little ones would like to come and join this fun pre school group.
The POD was a hive of activity this morning, every available space was in use! As well as our usual Friday programme including the IT courses, GCSE English and the Parents Forum Group who were joined by the FiNs for a brilliant advice session on the recent changes to the benefit system presented by Yousef…
The FiNs went to see the Pantomime Snow White at the Birmingham Hippodrome this afternoon. The tickets were booked way back in April to get the best seats and the time seems to have gone by so quickly it was lovely to have something exciting to do on a cold wet January day. The show…
The Chief Executive of Birmingham City Council – Stephen Hughes visited the POD today to find out more about the exciting work that we do in Nechells. We sent the invitation for the visit after meeting the Chief Executive at the Chamberlain Awards Ceremony in November and we were very lucky that Stephen found time…
Office staff at the POD were given a small gift for each of their desks today, So we now have a Little Miss Naughty, a Little Miss Giggles and a Little Miss Bossy! Can you guess which ones we were given? Thank you Graham for making us all laugh on a cold and frosty morning!
The Birmingham Mail covered the Bishop of Birmingham’s visit to the POD last week in their YOURS section. We hope that the Bishop’s visit along with our visit yesterday from the Chief Executive of Birmingham City Council Stephen Hughes will help to raise the profile of the POD and allow us to secure funding to…
“I really enjoyed my visit to the POD and was truly impressed by the breadth and importance of the work that is being done . It was interesting to see such an exciting model of community support that works across such a wide age group and with diverse communities. The feedback from community members celebrated…
The FiNs have been enjoying a double dose of weekly keep fit with Stuart – as well as running the Monday Adult keep fit class Stuart from Start Again CIC has been covering for Kay the FiNs regular Plus Fit tutor while Kay has been looking after a friend during her illness. The group have…
We had a great intergenerational morning at the POD today. Pupils from Heartlands Academy were researching life in Nechells in the past for a school production. Nine of our FiNs came to the POD early before their keep fit class to talk about what life in Nechells was like when they moved here in the…