As a Social Enterprise, PIE not only has a team who deliver our programmes and do everything else that makes the company work, but also a...

Last month we completed our most recent Wave of Change programme, so we thought we'd take a look at our years of delivering this programme! We first launched the Wave of Change in partnership with The Goodness Collective in March 2020. After a couple of initial in person sessions, we closed down along with the rest of the world, and quickly shifted our sessions online. This involved not only teaching the women taking part to use Zoom for sessions, but ourselves as well! We ra

We’re super excited to share that we have been successful in our application for the Hate Crime Awareness grant from Manchester City Council. Following the discussions and learning from our shorter sessions last year at St Anne’s High School, Bramhall High School, Aquinas College and Chorlton High School we knew there was more work to do in terms of young people and hate crime! This year we are working with Burnage Academy for Boys and The East Manchester Academy to make a di

Over the last few weeks our Year 10 Future Ready students from Unity Academy Blackpool have descended upon Manchester on their annual PIE visits! Armed with all the waterproof gear (under Munji’s guidance) no one was prepared for the two days of clear blue skies and sunshine. The boys group were lucky enough to be greeted with hot drinks at Oxford Road Train Station before they made their journey to Old Trafford. Thank you to Café Nero on Oxford Road, not many coffee shops wo

The 11th of March saw our past and present Wavers gathering in Stockport to celebrate International Women’s Day. Inspired by our Creative Wavers and their talents; so many of our women have found employment, self employment and comfort through the tough times with crafting so what better way to celebrate how amazing women are by getting our craft on! We had the lovely Kimmy from Self Care Creatives running journalling & colouring activities. Next we had Affirmations with Sara

After a lot of planning with Stockport Academy , we helped with organising and delivering activities for Stockport Academy's drop down day for their Year 9 pupils. With support from the Violence Reduction Unit in Stockport , PIE organised for the different organisations in the VRU Alliance to deliver sessions for the drop down day. The organisations who delivered sessions on the day were Talk, Listen, Change, Make a Difference, and Stockport County Community Trust. The pupil

Last week Holiday Club was back for half term thanks to the Household Support Fund. On Monday we were at Stockport County with our friends from the Community Trust for our teen offer we played fifa, darts, pool and ate pizza. On Tuesday we took a group to Marple Cinema to watch Moana 2! We opened the event up to the local community it was great to welcome almost 100 faces to the cinema! Our final activity of the week was our craft day! We were joined by Jen who helped us make

We have been doing the Enrichment Partnership Pilot project for nearly a year! Time flies! It has been great to look back and see what we have achieved for this project. To highlight some of the great work we have done, it is important to talk about the schools we have created relationships with for this project. They have been amazing communicating with us, sharing what they want for their schools in terms of enrichment, and the chance to speak to students themselves about w

Last week we held our s econd annual Youth Summit in Stockport Town Hall . 15 secondary schools and 2 colleges came together to consider mental health and wellbeing , with an aim for young people to share their ideas and views with key representatives at Stockport Council. It was an incredible day with around 150 young people , representing so many areas of Stockport all under one roof! All the students were well-prepared for the day and eager to get started! Beth and Munji o

On Thursday 30th January at Edgar Wood Academy (Altus Education Partnership) , Rochdale we ran another exciting careers event! This is our third speed networking event in partnership with AutoTrader , for which the whole of Year 9 attended - that was 197 students . Over 40 local professionals attended , it was a great variety; from hairdressers to police officers, directors to archaeologists, fashion designers to engineers! The students each all had one hour to attend the ev

This year we've been working closely with Becky Fox at Leeds Co-Op Academy to develop a bespoke programme for a specific cohort of Year 7 girls. to develop their ambitions, confidence and sense of belonging. I absolutely love any time I spend at Leeds Co-Op Academy - the diversity, quirky nature and gratitude of the students always remind me of my time teaching in London! My first session with the girls was focused on developing a rapport. It's important that they got to know

Keep an eye out for our new Enrichment Podcast!  During the end of 2024 we have been busy creating a podcast working with the fabulous MIC Media. This podcast is part of the Enrichment Partnership Pilot programme and it is all about enrichment for young people in schools and enriching opportunities in the community. We have created this podcast for staff in schools, teachers and enrichment providers to learn more about how they may develop enrichment opportunities for young p

This year we compiled an end of year report, which incorporated some of our statistics from the whole 7 years of our existence! It was a joy compiling this data, and reflecting on not only this year, but looking back to see how far we've come. Here's a few headlines from 2024: - We have worked with record breaking numbers of people both in community and schools. - We have continued to grow our team, welcoming Ciara. - We have worked with numerous young volunteers . - We hav

To round off our blogging year we wanted to share our highlights with you!

Last week, we had the joy of returning to All Saints Primary School in Marple for our annual Christmas bag packing! This marks our third year partnering with All Saints on this heart-warming project, funded by Stockport Council and the Household Support Grant. Together, t he amazing staff and enthusiastic children provided 40 food bags to support local families in need, as well as preparing some Movie Night bags ready for HAF provision this month. We couldn’t be prouder of

Our new Make Good & L!STEN programme is going great and we would love to tell you about what we have been doing! First, let's recap what this programme is... Make Good (our friend Jen Samani) and PIE have partnered up to deliver this programme from October to January and have received the GMCA Shaping Care Fund to deliver this programme in Stockport. We are working with a group of care experienced young people (young people in foster care, young people in residential care hom

Seven years ago today PIE became a registered company - a proud Social Enterprise looking to support young people to become future ready. Delivery started in January 2018 with pilot Future Ready programmes at Chorlton High, then followed by work at Harrop Fold, Manchester Communication Academy and The East Manchester Academy. We were proud to receive the 'Do It' Award and funding from UnLtd to start our journey which helped to fund initial resources for programmes and core se

We have lots of exciting programmes running in school at the moment, so an Autumn term update is definitely needed! Our funding from CAN has allowed us to complete The Climate Project in both Cheadle Hulme High School and Stockport School. Both groups have been full of ideas and full of enthusiasm from our very first session so it’s clear that their climate action campaigns will be successful! Cheadle Hulme High School have chosen to focus on reducing waste in their school co

November is here, and that means our Christmas initiatives are in full swing! We are excited to announce the launch of our Christmas campaign aimed at raising funds to support families who would otherwise face a bleak Christmas morning. If you'd like to contribute, you can make a donation through this link or just click the PIE Christmas Hat! We’re kicking things off on Saturday, November 30th, with our annual Christmas movie morning at the Regent Cinema in Marple. This even

Early last Tuesday morning we had a very excited group of 16 young people and their accompanying adults ready at Stockport train station for a day trip to London! For some this was their first time visiting the capital and they were buzzing for what the day ahead would hold, whilst also feeling slightly apprehensive! Since joining PIE last year, Munji has been desperate to take a group to see the joys of London after living there for a while herself so she was tasked with the