We would love to see you at some of our forthcoming events. Everyone is welcome to join our informal socials where you can chat with others in a friendly, safe environment. Members will all receive emails with the joining links for Zoom meetings. Non-members should contact maggie.butler@iasupport.org for joining instructions.
Most of our meetings are held face-to-face, but some meetings continue to be held on Zoom for members who prefer to meet in this way.
Birmingham City Centre Socials:These meetings will be held between 10am and midday in the Deritend Training Room at St Martin's in the Bullring, Edgbaston Street, Birmingham B5 5BB
Halesowen Socials:These meetings will be held between 10am and midday in the Mundon Room on the 6th floor at Halesowen Library, in the Cornbow Shopping Centre, Queensway, Halesowen, B63 4AZ.
Redditch Socials:These meetings will be held between 10am and midday in the Coffee Lounge at the Ecumenical Centre, 6 Evesham Walk, Redditch, B97 4EX.
Solihull Socials:These meetings will be held between 10.30am and 12.30pm in Room 5 at the Solihull Methodist Church, Blossomfield Road, Solihull B91 1LG
Sutton Coldfield Socials: These meetings will be held from 10.30am to 12.30pm at The United Reformed Church, 1 Brassington Avenue, Sutton Coldfield, B73 6AA
Walsall SocialsThese socials will be held at St Andrew's Church, Bentley, Walsall WS2 0AA from 10.30am - 12.30pm
We may hold other 'pop-up' meetings in other areas during the year. We will notify members who live locally about these.
Sophie Turigel, a Senior Dietitian working as part of Melissa Cunha's Colorectal Surgery Team, at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, will be giving an online presentation full of dietary advice for Ostomists and Pouchies, via Zoom.
Sophie provided a very interesting and informative presentation at our recent Information Day, and has kindly agreed to provide another, not to be missed, presentation!
A Zoom link will be emailed out to Birmingham IA members nearer the time.
If you have any queries, please contact Maggie Butler, via maggie.butler@iasupport.org.
We hope you can join us!
We will be holding more of our popular 'Meet the Nurses' sessions this year. This is your chance to meet with stoma nurses from local hospitals and to ask questions about stoma care. We are very lucky in Birmingham that the SCNs volunteer to give up their time in the evenings after a long day at work, and we are very grateful to them.
Dates will be posted as soon as we have them. The Zoom links will be circulated to members before the meetings.
This year, the IA National Pouch Information Day is taking place at the Novotel Hotel, 70 Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2HT.
You'll need to register, in advance, to secure your place.
Link to further information: Pouch Information Day 2025
Preparations are under way to create a packed programme for the charity’s 70 year (platinum) anniversary milestone next year, which will be officially celebrated at our IA National Information Day on Saturday 25 April, 2026, at Chesford Grange Hotel, Chesford Bridge, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 2LD.
Please save the date, more details to follow, in due course, so watch this space!
Next meeting is Thursday 17th July 2025, when we will be joined by IA's Stoma Nurse Liaison, Carol Katte. If you have questions about internal pouches, Carol is the person to ask!
Booking is through Eventbrite. Links are shown on the IA Internal Pouch Pals Facebook Page for booking two weeks prior to the meetings.