1 Year of Transfer to Transform!
The Solent Apprenticeship Hub are celebrating the one-year anniversary of their highly successful Transfer to Transform initiative. Transfer to Transform encourages large employers to pledge their unspent apprenticeship levy funds to cover the costs of apprenticeship training for smaller businesses across the Solent region. Currently, at £1,450,000 in total pledges and with over 100 apprentice starts, the […]
Digital Enablement programme wins Teach Portsmouth Partnership Award
On Thursday 5th July our Bridging Portsmouth’s Digital Divide programme, which is led for Shaping by Hasmukh “Husky” Patel and delivered alongside Portsmouth City Council, The Thinking Schools Academy Trust, and The Hive, won the Partnership Award at the Teach Portsmouth Awards 2021. The award recognises two or more organisations who have worked together on […]
Fareham College becomes a Shaping Patron
We at Shaping Portsmouth are very pleased to announce that Fareham College has joined us a Patron. Fareham College first came on board to support our successful 100 in 100 campaign, also the first time all four local colleges collaborated with us on a single project, and we’re looking forward to working with them on […]
Historic “Spitfires of the Sea” take high road to be centre stage in major new permanent exhibition
Two Second World War historic boats that made an extraordinary contribution to naval warfare, have been painstakingly manoeuvred into place to take centre stage in a major new permanent exhibition which opens this Autumn at the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s (NMRN) Explosion Museum in Gosport. The boats which measure almost 60-foot-long each, will play starring roles in the brand-new exhibition, The Night Hunters: The Royal Navy’s […]
Go wild for reading this summer!
Help children to go wild about books and the planet by visiting a Portsmouth library from 10th July 2021 and signing up for the fun and free Wild World Heroes summer reading challenge. Portsmouth City Council is once again supporting the Reading Agency’s summer reading challenge, which encourages reading for pleasure for children aged […]
More funding requested for wheelchair accessible taxis and private hire vehicles
Senior officials at Portsmouth City Council have written to Government to request that more funding is made available to help drivers of wheelchair accessible taxis and private hire vehicles upgrade their vehicles ahead of the launch of Portsmouth Clean Air Zone (CAZ). Portsmouth City Council submitted a full business case for the CAZ in December […]
Looking back on Ports Fest 2021
The first weekend of July this year saw Ports Fest return to the city in the form of a three-day festival, comprising mainly of outdoor and free events to suit the current climate. Highlights included the face of the 2021 sea shanty revival, The Longest Johns, who headlined the opening concert on Friday night, […]
Portsmouth’s Business Leaders and colleges working closely to improve Skills & Employability
During the first Portsmouth & District Business Week, which ran from the 5th to the 9th of July and was organised by the Portsmouth & District Business Strategy Group as part of the Hampshire Chamber of Commerce, we at Shaping ran our first Business Leaders Group (BLG) meeting since the Autumn of 2019. The topic […]
Port sparks interest from EV owners with new InstaVolt charging points
The electric vehicle charge point network, InstaVolt, have installed two charging points at Portsmouth International Port. It’s part of the port’s commitment to become the first net carbon neutral UK port by 2030, and the first zero emission port by 2050. Improving air quality and reducing carbon emissions are two of the most pressing issues […]
Successful rental e-scooter trial expands into Queen Alexandra and St Mary’s Hospitals
With the recent expansion of the rental e-scooter trial in Portsmouth, riders can now travel by rental e-scooter to work or to visit friends and relatives at Queen Alexandra Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital. Parking racks for keyworkers and visitors have been added to both hospital sites. With the recent expansion of the rental e-scooter […]