Sponsorship opportunities available for the Inspirational Women of Portsmouth Awards 2025

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The Pamodzi Tribe have already begun planning for the 2025 Inspirational Women of Portsmouth event! They would like to let organisations that share their values of authenticity, community and championing others, know that their updated 2025 Sponsor Package is now available for your review on this link.   The 2024 Inspirational Women of Portsmouth programme included […]

Unlock Business Growth with Sustainable Practices: NetZero 360 Workshop

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We’re delighted by the increasing interest in sustainability within our community and thrilled to announce the successful July NetZero 360 workshop. These workshops are part of our continuing commitment to sustainability, delivered through the Business Climate Action programme in partnership with Solent Business & Skills Solutions. The workshops equip businesses with the knowledge and tools […]

City of Portsmouth College IT students win awards building app for local business

We’re thrilled to celebrate the incredible innovation and collaboration on our Portsmouth Business Support Service Programme, delivered in partnership with Portsmouth City Council. Last week, we had the pleasure of celebrating the incredible students of City of Portsmouth College at their Highbury campus. These talented IT students provided invaluable support to local entrepreneur Luca Frederick […]

Portsmouth’s education superstars shine bright at awards ceremony

The city’s education workforce came together to celebrate two decades of service at an awards ceremony held at Portsmouth Guildhall. Teach Portsmouth, a Portsmouth City Council service, organised the event, as part of two initiatives that reward and recognise staff in the city’s schools and academies. 87 people from primary, secondary and special schools were […]

Running Out of Time for Climate Action

On Monday 1st July, the Running Out of Time relay baton entered Portsmouth, an important stop on its extraordinary 2,436km route from Ben Nevis, Scotland to Big Ben, London in the name of climate action. Our own Marian Glover carried the baton between Stamshaw Junior School and Redwood Park Academy, on the 174th stage of the baton’s […]

Two new placements for Shaping Portsmouth

Two young women, Imogen Hambry and Mackenzie Bird, standing on the Guildhall steps

Shaping Portsmouth have welcomed two new placements to the team. Mackenzie Bird has joined us from HSDC for two weeks work experience, and Imogen Hambry has returned for another paid summer internship having completed her GCSE’s at Trafalgar School. As well as studying A Level Law and Politics, Mackenzie is passionate about getting youth voice […]

Habitat Harbour

As many of you are already aware we have re-launched our Armed Forces Covenant Programme as the Armed Forces Community Programme. The new AFC will maintain its focus on promoting the covenant and helping businesses sign up to it, but will now be expanding its remit into new aspects of armed forces and veteran life […]

Kirsty hikes Pen Y Fan with the Royal Naval Association

On 29th July, Shaping Portsmouth’s Education & Community Lead and Female Royal Navy Veteran Kirsty Hill attended the Royal Naval Association female-only weekend in Wales, and what a weekend she had climbing Pen Y Fan and jumping into waterfalls with some incredibly inspirational women. The Royal Naval Association is the biggest collective group of Royal […]