Summer Community Lunch

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Summer Community lunch 2015 today. We enjoyed fantastic weather, good company and had fun with the raffle, which was drawn by our newest recruit Sean who will be joining us here at the POD as our Big Lottery Funded Safe Haven Coordinator from Mid September 2015.…

The Big Hoot Preview Party @ Fort Dunlop

The Big Hoot 2015 and Free Radio held a big preview party this evening on the roof of the Iconic Fort Dunlop Building. It was amazing to see our owl Oliver in all his splendour along with the other 88 fantastic owls who are all getting ready to take their place across Birmingham for the…

Boomsbury Fun Day 2015

Bloomsbury Fun Day 2015 – another fantastic day in the park and this year there was no rain! As usual the POD provided bathroom facilities and refreshments, including a range of delicious cakes provided by Savella and food provided by FareShare. Thanks to John Street from Free@last and everyone involved in ICANB7 it was a…

Meet our POD owl – Oliver!

Lots of visitors came to see our owl Oliver today including Sophie Handy who was one of the artists who helped our community create this fantastic art work to show what Nechells means to everyone who lives and works in this amazing community. There is the Smurfit Kappa SSK recycling plant that we all call…

DREAMS 2015

The DREAMS Summer fun programme is in full swing at the POD this week. Sixty children from three of our local primary schools are enjoying a week of activities including dance provided by spilt milk dance, sports provided by startagain project and for the creative session our artist in residence for the week is Sam…

DREAMS 2015

DREAMS Summer fun programme is in full swing at the POD this week. Sixty children from three of our local primary schools are enjoying a week of activities including dance provided by spilt milk dance, sports provided by startagain project and for the creative session our artist in residence for the week is Sam from…

New Web Site Under Construction

We are now a registered Charity – SHINE@NechellsPOD Charity number 1162038 Please bear with us while our new web site is under construction by John at Pembertronics.co.uk – We will be up and running again shortly For further information on courses and activities please call into the POD

National Apple Week in Nechells

On Friday 16 October to mark National Apple Week Fareshare donated apples to the POD.   There were so many trays of apples we were able to distribute them to three primary schools: St Joseph’s, Cromwell and St Vincent’s. This meant that local school children and the community had a fantastic end to their week . As part…