The inaugural Institute of Directors (IoD) Annual Prize: West Midlands Director of the Year Awards Highly Commended Welcome Trustee Ann Rivera, Organisational Development Director for the Trident Social Investment Group Ann’s first class OD strategy recognised by numerous sector awards encompasses IT, Customer Service, Health and Safety and HR, as well as learning and development.Di
Shop team and volunteers ran a book stall in the square and sold 27 bags of books to the local community. The shop display was changed to reflect St Georges Day images.
Work is already underway on refurbishing the old community center to make way for the New Welcome Cafe! Major refurbishment work has been given the go ahead to the old Community Center next to AllSaints Church on Ownall Road, Shard End. The centre will offer a range of different services to people in the area including a new community space and cafe.
Colin (Formally known as Bubble until we discovered she was in fact a he and a cockerel!) and squeak have been quite busy in the garden. These eggs will now go into the Welcome drop in center kitchen, to assist in provision of meals. The garden project is back up and running on: Fridays 10am – 1pm Saturdays 10am – 1pm. If you are interested in chicken care, growing fruit
Sound Foundation Voices brought a touch of Christmas cheer to Touchwood shopping centre in Solihull on Sunday 9th December, singing carols and other seasonal songs outside Santa’s grotto to raise money for Welcome. Chief Executive Joanne Mackinnon was also on hand to speak to Christmas shoppers interested in finding out more about the work Welcome does. “We had a great response,” sh
We are fundraising in the Touchwood shopping centre in Solihull on Sunday 9th December and we’ll be getting into the festive spirit with some carol singing between 1pm and 3pm. The singing will be led by Sound Foundation Voices, a community singing group which counts one of our Board directors among its members. There will be plenty of opportunity for audience participation, so if y
On the 19th October two new additions to the Welcome garden arrived. Two small Bantam chickens were introduced. This would not have been possible without the help of the Social Action project carried out by members of the conservative party the week before the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.Working on site with some staff and service users they were able to construct th
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