Last Friday we had a successful housing event at The POD, organised by our Welfare & Support Officer Joanna. Organisations including Birmingham City Council, Bournville Village Trust, Shelter and Birmingham Fair Housing Campaign, Bloomsbury EMB, SIFA Fireside, Family Action, Community Network Support Officers (Ladywood Constituency), Best Choice Befriending Services, and Councillor Lee Marsham were all…
Nechells POD recently received funding from the National Grid UK. The Great Outdoors Funding has allowed the POD to organise a garden refurbishment project for the building’s front and back playground areas. During one of our summertime community events, we consulted with both children and adults from the Nechells community about what they would like…
On Friday 4th November 2022, SHINE@NechellsPOD held their Annual General Meeting . Our trustees and local community members were invited to join together to celebrate all the POD’s achievements throughout the year 2021 -2022 and to find out about what the future holds for Nechells POD. Find below SHINE@NechellsPOD AGM Report for the year September…
on 28/10/2022 The Active Wellbeing Society held a car park closure for their wellbeing community event which took place right here at Nechells POD. On the day we were joined by over 150 community members which including families and friends of all ages. alongside the Active Wellbeing Society we provided fun games, activities, a fire…
On 06.07.2022 we had a special visit from the Mayor of West Midlands Andy Street. He took the time to take a tour around the POD building that houses Bloomsbury library and SENDIASS and discussed with staff about the work they do within Nechells and upcoming community activities that we have planned. After this we…
What an amazing video made by Communities Engage & Thrive CIC, capturing the fantastic community event that they held here at the POD in June 2022.On the day we held a Ghana food event where we all had the opportunity to try out some traditional Ghanaian dishes and other healthy foods, alongside the food on…
Last Friday we had our Great Get Together Event where we celebrated having #moreincommon with each other. Luckily the rain held off and we enjoyed a lovely community picnic in our garden! Thank you to John Powell’s family who attended the event and were able to see the plaque and bench which us located within…
It is with huge sadness that we have to announce that Rob Walker, trustee at SHINE@NechellsPOD passed away on Thursday 2nd June. Rob was only 56 and passed away after a short illness in hospital, which has been an utter shock. He had retired from Lloyds Bank in 2020 and had moved to York, despite this he had continued to…
On Friday 3rd June we had a Commonwealth Games celebration of Ghana event at The POD, organised by Communities Engage & Thrive. Our wonderful day consisted of learning about and trying some Ghana cuisine made by chef Maude, outdoor games, healthy food stalls, and lots of live music and dance! We’d like to give a…
What an amazing turn out to our Jubilee celebration yesterday afternoon On Thursday 2nd June 2022, Spiltmilk Dance did a fantastic job at organising the event and providing entertainment to celebrate the Queens Platinum Jubilee. We had over 800 community members attend throughout the day, who all enjoyed Games, Arts & Crafts, Face painting, cake…