Victorious raffle raises £1900 for charity
We are delighted to announce that our raffle for a signed Portsmouth Football Club shirt raised £1900 over the Victorious Festival weekend. The funds were raised for local charity The Road From Karachi to install clean water pumps across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. 20% of the funds received go towards providing workshops in […]
Shaping welcomes a new member to the team
We are pleased to welcome Charla Grant, who has joined the Shaping Portsmouth Team on a Freelance basis as Partnership & Programme Support. Charla Grant has lived and worked in and around Portsmouth all of her life and prides herself on making a difference to the city. Her career started in Financial Services and across […]
Announcing our new Programme Leads
Our volunteer team expanded last month as we welcomed new Leads and Co-Leads for several of our programmes. In our Community Pillar, Tony Sammut from Gunwharf Quays and Dominic Jones from the Mary Rose Trust are our new Co-Leads for our Choose Employability programme, and Sandie Davis from Spark Community Space has joined Hasmukh “Husky” […]
Join us at Victorious and win a signed Pompey Shirt!
Look out for the Shaping Team, who will be out and about at Victorious Festival this weekend! The team will be easy to spot, fully branded in our new merch, so come and say hello. We will be in the Kids Arena with a stand, where we will be giving away a signed Portsmouth FC […]
Are you on the bus?
Preparations have started for next year’s Apprenticeship Bus Roadshow, and we need you! We can’t create an Apprenticeship Bus Roadshow without our apprentices and organisations/industries from across the city. So, if you would like to see your business and industry better represented, please do get in touch. The Roadshow will take place as part of […]
The Shaping Portsmouth Podcast: The Recommendations!
This week we’re celebrating the anniversary of our Shaping Portsmouth Podcast! Dave and Steff have kicked off our second year with a look back at how we got started, and the 54 episodes we’ve published over the last 12 months. (Almost) Every episode, we ask our guests to recommend something to do or somewhere to […]
Shaping Partners inspire Care Experienced Young People
The Shaping Portsmouth Choose Employability programme is supporting Portsmouth City Council with their Employability Academy. Hosted by the Portsmouth City Council Careers and Youth Hub, the Employability Academy aims to help Care Experienced Young People take the next step towards work and education. This 6-week programme focused on understanding self-awareness and personal strengths, practical career […]
Veterans Lead attends Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps Pass Out Parade
On a special day for the Royal Marines family, Joe Standen, Shaping Portsmouth’s Armed Forces Community programme Veterans Lead, Royal Marines Veteran and Former Royal Marines Cadet was honoured to attend the pass out parade of 251 Company, Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps (RMVCC) Portsmouth. Invited as a guest, Joe had the privilege of witnessing […]
Bailey’s Buses marks 25th Anniversary
Last month, Baileys Buses marked its 25th anniversary – celebrating both the company’s founding and its long-standing contract at Portsmouth International Port for passenger shuttle services. To commemorate the occasion, the full fleet of buses made a special visit to the port, joined by port staff and drivers past and present for a surprise get-together […]
‘Borrowed’ teaspoon returned after more than 80 years to a Portsmouth hotel
More than 80 years after it was first ‘borrowed.’ a silver teaspoon has been returned to a Portsmouth hotel. The piece of pilfered cutlery had been languishing in a drawer on the other side of the world for the past 50 years but has now been returned to The Queens Hotel in Southsea. A padded […]