‘VOICES Project’ Survey/Consultation

Your Voices can help us to ‘Make A Difference’: Telford & Wrekin SEND – Co–production Charter “PODS are excited to have developed this draft charter with our parent carers and wider families, and partners across health, social care, education and voluntary sector. The Telford & Wrekin co-production charter values our families as genuine partners and aims to ensure […]
PODS Annual Report 2021

Welcome to our Annual report which contains the reporting period April 2020-March 2021. PODS was set up in 2008 as part of the aiming high for disabled children strategy from central government, we are now a completely independent organisation having been supported by Parent Partnership in their fledgling years. To read the report in full, […]
COVID SURVEY RESPONSE AND IMPACT REPORT JULY 2021

Thank you to all our families who have shared their experiences with us – these will go towards helping with service development in the future and for any immediate changes that may need to be addressed and that we pick up at regular communications meetings with key strategic leads across social care, education, health and […]
PODS AGM July 2021

Thursday 15th July 2021 from 12pm-1pm Come join us for our online AGM and put a name to those faces you here so much about. Get to meet the team, including our Trustees Find out what we have been up to and our plans for the future Ask those burning questions. Find out about upcoming […]
PODS Picnic in the Park 2021

PODS Picnic in the Park 2021 is on Monday 2nd August 2021 from 10am-4pm at Admaston House, Admaston, TF5 0BN We look forward to seeing you there for lots of family fun!! You can view the full Risk Assessment for the Picnic in the Park here: Picnic in the Park Risk Assessment 2021
An Audience with Dean Beadle

Tuesday 11th May at 10.30am-12.30pm and 7pm-9pm We are excited to welcome Dean to join us for two virtual events, he will talk about his experiences and knowledge of Autism and with an emphasis on support for changes post COVID including transitions back into school, college, transitions, and support for emotional health and wellbeing and […]
PODS Future Planning Workshop

Wednesday 31st March 2021 from 12.30pm-2pm and 6.30pm-8pm We need YOU!!! and your ideas!! We have reached the point where we need to start planning our funding for the next 12 months. We want to hear from you, what are we doing well? What else could we be doing? What could we improve? The direction […]
PODS Food Parcels in Conjunction with Asda

Here at PODS we are only to aware of the far reaching impact of COVID, be it emotional, social or financial. We have strived to support our members every step of the way, through the delivery of sensory bags/resilience packs, well being phone calls, meet ups (where allowed) and many online Zoom sessions. Many other […]
***PODS New Schools Project***

We have received funding from health (CCG) to do some specific work with our Autism and/or Learning Disability communities, around support, information, sharing experiences and feeding into wider service development. We have started this work and have set up the following groups so far. Please join us and send an email to jayne@podstelford.org to ensure […]
PODS Easter Egg Deliveries

As we reach 12 months of Covid we are saddened that we still find ourselves in the grip of the pandemic, so we feel that this means we need to spread a bit more PODS cheer. Before Christmas, our PODS Elves’ were doing the rounds and brought many a smile to the children’s faces, so […]