Portsmouth Guildhall takes Bronze for Best Business Event Venue in the Beautiful South Awards!

Portsmouth Guildhall, managed by The Guildhall Trust, proudly announces its bronze achievement for the Best Business Event Venue at the Beautiful South Awards. This recognition comes at a time when event organisers and delegates are increasingly seeking unique spaces beyond London for their conferences, meetings and events. The iconic Portsmouth Guildhall stands out as an […]
Please support Fair Ways Care leavers Christmas Appeal

Fair Ways is a charity that provides Childrens services, meaning that they provide Fostering, Education, Residential care, Mental Health, and Family services. In total they look after about 800 children, young people and adults each year. Their Christmas Appeal this year is to raise awareness and practical assistance for Care Leavers. Christmas is an especially […]
KBS Maritime completes full upgrade to The Alford Schools of Military Music

KBS Maritime has successfully completed a facility design and refurbishment project for The Alford Schools of Military Music. The project delivers a sustainable and fit-for-purpose facility to support the training of hundreds of world-class military musicians for the Corps of Army Music and Royal Marines Band Service. The new and upgraded facility was visited and […]
Announcing the Portsmouth Pop Up shop to support business growth

In response to growing demand for business premises in Portsmouth, the council in partnership with Cascades and Flude have opened applications for a Portsmouth Pop Up shop scheme. This scheme enables local entrepreneurs and small businesses to trade in a high street location without the commitment or cost of a longer-term lease. As part of […]
Kings at the Queens

The Kings Theatre and The Queens Hotel are joining forces for a special Christmas cabaret in the Winter Lodge in aid of Spark Community Space on Thursday 7th December at 7.30pm. The evening will be compered by Pompey Panto favourite Jack Edwards with performances from cast members of Hook, this year’s panto, including Shaun Williamson, […]
Solent Sky Services partner with Shaping Portsmouth

We would like to give a huge thank you to our new Partners Solent Sky Services for providing our new video at the top of our website homepage. Michael Sanders Woods and Sara Woods have been big supporters of Shaping Portsmouth over the years and we’re glad to have them officially on board. Sara said “As Portsmouth Ambassadors we’re proud […]
Shaping Portsmouth Is Disability Confident

Shaping Portsmouth are delighted to have signed up to be a Disability Confident committed organisation. Similar to our work on the Armed Forces Covenant and the Care Leavers Covenant, we are committed to showing our Patrons and Partners, as well as all Portsmouth Businesses the benefits of employing people with Disabilities. Nothing demonstrates this more, […]
Shaping Portsmouth’s Cruise Passenger Programme Presents Portsmouth Cruise Business Event 2023

Building upon the success of last year’s inaugural Cruise Business Event, Shaping Portsmouth is proud to announce the resounding success of this year’s event, held on November 23rd at the D-Day Story Portsmouth. This invitation-only event provided a platform for local tourist industries including hospitality and night-time economy, and city-wide attractions to gain insights into […]
SMEs learn to control their carbon footprint with the NetZero 360 workshop

We are thrilled to announce that we successfully concluded our NetZero 360 workshop yesterday. This FREE two-part workshop, organized by our Business Climate Action Group programme in collaboration with Solent Business & Skills Solutions, provided businesses with the knowledge and tools they need to navigate achieving net zero sustainability. Tailored specifically for SMEs, the NetZero […]
Shaping Portsmouth and Spinnaker Tower bring Explore Your Future to Portsmouth Academy

On Thursday 9th November, our Shaping Portsmouth Education coordinator Kirsty Hill and Volunteer Programme Lead Chloe Bolton delivered an Explore Your Future Business Workshop session at Portsmouth Academy with Tony Sammut, the general manager from the Spinnaker Tower. We had an opportunity to spend a couple of hours with 25 Portsmouth Academy students across year […]