Earlier this month, our Partners Only Networking Event at The Portsmouth Grammar School was a night to remember. We celebrated our ever-growing partner network and reflected on how strong and supportive our community truly is.
A key highlight of the evening was announcing that we have generated £500,000 in social value since January 2025; a milestone that shows the real impact we’re creating together! Our Impact Report summary, also published at the event, can be found here.
Guests were also treated to live piano music throughout the evening, performed beautifully by a talented Portsmouth Grammar School student.
Steff Jones, Operations Manager at Shaping Portsmouth, said “This is the third iteration of this event and it was great to see so many partners, new and old, with us. This event really is for all the Partners to get together and have a natter without too much interference from us. We did however produce a summary of Shaping Portsmouth’s recent impacts which we hope was useful.
“We hope these events continue to be a jump off point for exchanges and collaborations between our partners and we’d love to hear any resulting good news stories. A massive thanks to Katie at Portsmouth Grammar School, other Katie at the brilliant Lizard Events for the catering, and a special thanks to our pianist for the evening, the fantastic Ollie from Year 10.”
If you are interested in hiring PGS spaces as an event venue, please email lettings@pgs.org.uk for more information.
If you are interested in starting a partnership with Shaping Portsmouth, you can find out more here.
Thank you to everyone who joined us, here’s to continuing successful collaborations, strong relationships and even bigger impacts.