Last week we had a very fun three days of activities in multiple locations around Stockport! Day 1 Marple – With the weather being quite unpredictable we had many indoor and outdoor activities planned for the group. Gemma set up a rice crispy cake making stand for the group, and they decorated their cakes with lots and lots of sprinkles, marshmallows and chocolate (well the remainder of chocolate that had not been eaten during the making of the cakes!). Other young people got

Last week we had an exciting visit to Manchester planned with our Diversity PIE group from Leeds. They travelled down from Leeds on the...

Earlier this year we received funding from GMCVO to conduct some health and wellbeing workshops with two small groups of teenagers. We...

Last week Beth and Ciara (Project Manager and Project Support officer for the Enrichment Partnership Pilot Programme) travelled all the...

Munji, our Schools Delivery Co-Ordinator, is here this week to give us an update! It’s been an exciting and busy Spring term in schools...

We are thrilled to share where we're up to with our latest Wave! Sarah from the Goodness Collective CIC recently published the following, so in case you missed it, here's her round up: The Goodness Collective CIC and PIE: Pursuing Individual Excellence have once again teamed up to bring women who are not currently working in Stockport a programme of workshops & events to allow the time, space and the support needed to explore ideas for creating a future that works for them.  

This year we've been busy in two locations! We did two days at Dial Park with Stockport County and three days in Marple. All facilitated and organised by our own Easter Bunny Gemma, who delivered 100 Easter Eggs in the days before the break! Here's Ciara & Munji to tell us more about what they got up to: Day 1 Stockport County - Ciara : With help from Evie, Eleanor and Rex we delivered a session focusing on the topic 'What makes you happy?'. We got the young people to mind ma

In February we launched our Diversity PIE pilot programme at Leeds Co-Op Academy, focusing on racial and ethnic diversity. This is a...

The Spring term has been a busy one at PIE (as always!). We think you'll agree the following numbers look great: From a school...

New Project Alert! We have recently been commissioned by NCS Trust and The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) to deliver Enrichment...

Last week we ran an event with our Wave of Change group – one of this group, Anne, has written this blog for us all about the event!   As a celebration for International Women’s Day, 8 women brought together by the eighth Wave of Change programme planned and put on a day event on the top floor of Stockport Central Library on Tuesday 5th March.   It was called I AM WOMAN inspired by the feminist protest song from the 70s by Helen Reddy. We were celebrating all our strengths an

A few weeks ago on a wet and windy Manchester Friday, our Future Ready girls group made their way from Blackpool for an exciting day in...

We cannot believe our last session of Positivity PIE is coming up this week! At Leeds Coop Academy, a group of 15 Year 9 girls have been...

There was a great turnout for the L!STEN / DigiFest Digital Careers event on Tuesday 13th February . Altogether, 22 young people attended this event at The Space in the centre of Stockport. With help from our L!STEN Youth Alliance Team, the first activity that the young people did was creating social media content by making stop-motion animations. They were given a brief to create an animation of something that represents what PIE is, how PIE helps young people, or what coul

On Tuesday 6th February, 15 Stockport schools, 2 Stockport Colleges, numerous VCSFE organisations, businesses and a large number of council representatives including Mark Hunter (Leader of Stockport Council) and Caroline Simpson (Chief Executive of Stockport Council) gathered at Stockport Town Hall. This was all for our first ever Youth Summit as part of our work with L!STEN! The aim of the Youth Summit was to give young people an opportunity to discuss and share their views

Last week Beth delivered a 2 hour session for trainee teachers completing PGCE courses in Psychology and Social Sciences at MMU. PIE have...

Our This Matters programme is reaching its midpoint in both schools in Blackpool and Leeds, which means it’s definitely a good time for a...

This month has been a busy one for our in school sessions! As well as our regular programmes running throughout the school year in Leeds...

Thanks to Simone for this week's Blog, which is an update of All Things Wavey! We wanted to keep you in the loop with all things Wave related. If you are a woman looking for support and live in Stockport, then you might be able to access funded support from us through the Wave of Change programme.  You need to fall into one of the following categories to access support: ·       Currently out of work ·       Experiencing Financial Hardship ·       Living with Physical or Menta