Some of our POD families and elders travelled up to Spinkhill, Mount St Mary’s College, near Sheffield today. This was the start our wonderful weekend residential funded by the BIG Lottery Safe Haven Project. We had a lovely journey up the M1 and arrived just in time for mid morning refreshments. After settling everyone in…
We have some exciting Easter Family Activities taking place at the POD for our regular POD users and their families. Come along and learn how to make your own delicious bread and pizza. There will be fun family sports activities to keep you fit and a card making session to allow you to discover your…
Community Residential On 24 and 25 March fifty Nechells residents visited Spinkhill for a fun filled residential. This inter generational activity funded by BIG Lottery and Near Neighbours was a great opportunity for the community to come together, enjoy each other’s company and spend time together in a safe and welcoming environment. We had an…
Last Thursday Nechells POD took families from the Nechells Community to Monster Mayhem in Star City. The trip to the play area was fully paid for thanks to the Safe Haven project here at Nechells POD. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and were none stop playing for the full two hours. After the children were…
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…
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’…
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…