Category: News
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Candy Bubbles 10th Anniversary
Our very own Naomi Spencer, founder and director of Candy Bubbles (and also manager of the Nechells Lions), celebrated her 10th Anniversary of Candy Bubbles. It was a lovely evening of celebration, memories, friends and family joining together for a fun filled evening showing what has been achieved from a girl from Nechells. Naomi epitomises…
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Our Young people are on the telly!
We were approached by the amazing journalist, Peter Wilson, from the BBC, to film a piece about the demise of youth services having an impact on the rise of knife crime. Peter came to one of our youth clubs, where we were giving our new SuperDry clothes that had been donated by the company, and…
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Nechells Lions FC v Smethwick FC
What an amazing game with a brilliant team spirit shown throughout the whole match, which showed in the result – we won 7-2!! Our goal scorers were: Subhaan x 1 Jahreal x 1 Wail x 1 JJ x 4 The man of the match went to KJ who is usually seen non-stop running around the…
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Youth Club Feast
This week our secondary aged youth club celebrated Black History Month by tasting a variety of Caribbean food. Quite out of the ordinary they put the tables together, sat as a group around a table, shared food and spoke about where the food originated from and different flavours and ingredients used. This gave staff and young…
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Nechells Lions FC – Match Report
Fantastic performance today again!! A cup match against Sandwell FC. First half the boys really worked well together and the passion was amazing, leading 3-2 at half time. Second half they slightly got off track, losing sight of their formation, and were soon drawing 4-4. Just 5 minutes before the end of the game we went…
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Nechells Lions FC
Our new Under 11’s football team, Nechells Lions FC, have joined the Sandwell Minor League – playing 9 a side football on a Sunday mornings. We have been generously sponsored by Approved Shopfitting & Interiors (ASI) and FLR Group, enabling us to buy the necessary equipment needed to enter the league. Our first match was possibly the…
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Unique Climbing Wall Feature
We are very happy to have our own climbing wall at free@last and this has always been a feature that we’ve included in our plans for the new building. Although we are not a commercial climbing wall we have designed the wall with a couple of unique features that will hopefully entice climbers to come…
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Birmingham Trainee Solicitors’ Society announce free@last as Charity of the Year
We are really pleased to announce that the Birmingham Trainee Solicitors’ Society has named free@last as it’s charity of the Year. We are highly honoured and happy to work with the Society, who have already started their fundraising with a £185 from a Gin Tasting event. Their next big event is their annual ball at…
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Entrepreneurial Challenge 2018
It is often said that the youth of today are tomorrow’s leaders, but we have 88 x 11 year old children who believe they are today’s leaders – especially in business! free@last has been working with Cromwell Multi Academy Trust, which includes Bordesley Village School, to run a Year 6 Entrepreneurial Challenge. The children have…