Colleagues from across the business, pulled together to support a recent community event in Sparkhill Park, Birmingham.
Funded by the Department of Education, Bring it on Brum! provides holiday, activities and food (HAF) over school holidays, to address holiday hunger. All children who are entitled to free school meals can access HAF across Birmingham.
Bring it on Brum! held a sports day event on Thursday 24 July at Sparkhill Park with support from Birmingham City Council, Sparkbrook Children’s Zone, GSA and Street Games.
The free community event provided:
- Sports sessions
- A healthy lunch for the children who participated
- Stalls with representatives of local services offering advice
- Family food workshops.
Our colleagues in Sparkbrook Children’s Zone supported the event by providing free Well Child checks for children and young people age 2 to 16, distributing vitamins to children ages 0 to 4 and supplying free toothbrushes to all children and young people.
Sparkbrook Children’s Zone (SCZ) is a pioneering NHS England funded health and social care service delivered in partnership between GSA, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and South Doc Services in a local Primary Care Network of eight GP surgeries.
To support the event, SCZ colleagues needed to utilise some foldout tables and were able to borrow them from our Community Engagement Centre in Walsall. Our colleagues in the DLO transported the tables from Walsall to Spark Hill Park in South Birmingham.
Simarjeet Kaur, Operations Manager at SCZ, said: “Despite the cloudy weather the sports day was a huge success. It was great seeing so many children and families having fun and enjoying a free day out.
“I would like to thank Asima Hussain, Health and Independence Manager, for lending us the tables and Daniel Cox, Operations Manager for bringing them over. Occasions like this demonstrate how our colleagues are living the values of the GSA Way and work as one team for the benefit of the communities we serve.”