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 […]
Episode 78: Steve Piper
CEO Dave Humphries speaks to Steve Piper, founder of Si Digital, about the business, Artificial Intelligence, and how attending the Shaping Portsmouth Conference in 2025 led to taking a PSA test, which led to a prostate cancer diagnosis.
Episode 79: International Women’s Day
This week we have a special episode for International Women’s Day, which will be on Sunday 8th March! In this episode, Charla Grant chats with Roni Edwards-Wilson from Pamodzi about her decision to pause the Inspirational Women’s Awards this year, how she’s been keeping busy, the importance of the awards, and this year’s IWD theme of Give to Gain.
Episode 80: Dave Humphries
Charla Grant chats with Dave Humphries (CEO of a local organisation you may know called Shaping Portsmouth!) looking back over the last year of Shaping Portsmouth activities, including the Conference, collaboration in the city, community cohesion, the importance of listening to young people, and Dave’s experiences in his role.
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 […]
Episode 82: Women in Business
Charla Grant, Suzan Win Latt, and Marian Glover reflect on International Women’s Day and this years theme of Give to Gain, the SLR Recruitment IWD event, their own lunch meeting about how to extend the IWD celebration across the whole year, and their plans for a new Women in Business initiative that came out of it.
Episode 83: Frank HR
Dave Humphries talks to Bev about how she came to leave her job and found Frank HR, being a workaholic and a people person, the difficulties of setting up a business, and how Frank HR works as a retainer service for businesses.
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 […]