Shaping Portsmouth welcomes Fair Ways
Shaping Portsmouth are pleased to welcome Fair Ways as our newest Patron. Fair Ways is a leading Portsmouth based children’s services charity, delivering Fostering, Education, Residential, Health and Family services, and operating in Southern England and Wales. Mac McHugh, Fair Ways CEO, said “Fair Ways are passionate about making a difference for children, young people […]
Explore Your Future Business Breakfast is coming to Trafalgar School
Shaping Portsmouth’s first official Explore Your Future – Business Breakfast is due to take place on 2nd November at Trafalgar School. We are thrilled to announce this session will be delivered in collaboration with Southsea Coastal Scheme and their representative, Site Agent Robert Stevens-Hoare. We are sure that the young people of Trafalgar School will […]
The Directors of the Present meet the Directors of the Future
On the evening of Wednesday 18th October, Managing Directors, CEOs, and other senior level executives sat down with fourteen students at the HSDC Catering Centre for the Directors of the Future dinner, organised in partnership with Shaping Portsmouth and Business South. The dinner was an opportunity for the students, the entrepreneurs of the future, to […]
New Council Chief Executive headlines Business Leaders Forum
Yesterday we hosted the Autumn Portsmouth Business Leaders Forum with over 100 delegated attending. We were being hosted by Mark Leyland, General Manager Portsmouth Marriott Hotel and were delighted to welcome Natalie Brahma-Pearl to the city and her new role of Portsmouth City Council Chief Executive. Natalie gave us an insight into her recent role […]
QBuild joins Shaping Portsmouth
Shaping Portsmouth are pleased to welcome QBuild as our newest Associate partner. Located at 147 Winter Road, QBuild assist and advise with home building projects. Their team Live and work in Portsmouth, and are very much part of the community. Rob Kirby, Director at QBuild, said “QBuild can’t wait to join Shaping Portsmouth. We are […]
Shaped By Solent is back!
After a successful 2022 programme Shaped By Solent returns to continue the success and embark on a new and exciting challenge. We are thrilled to work together with Little Green Academy, Mary Rose Academy, Redwood Academy, and their students, to create some exciting and innovative products in this Dragon’s Den style initiative. The Shaped By […]
Local Portsmouth firm aims to raise more than £16k for charity by walking 2,000km
The staff, customers, suppliers and friends of Portsmouth based GRP Solutions will be taking part in the Thames Path Challenge on Saturday 9th September 2023. The aim of this 44 strong team including its bank manager Martyn Butcher from NatWest Bank is to walk the 50km route from Putney Bridge to Runnymede to raise £16k […]
Smart Training and Recruitment sign on as a Patron
Shaping Portsmouth are pleased to welcome Smart Training and Recruitment as our newest Patron. Smart Training and Recruitment Ltd are a dynamic Training Provider, approved by Ofsted, and we deliver high quality, Government funded apprenticeship and traineeships. Since opening their doors in 2003, they have delivered training to over 16,000 learners and helped over 5,000 […]
Shaping Portsmouth CEO to retire in the New Year
Shaping Portsmouth Chief Executive Officer Stef Nienaltowski has announced that he will be retiring in the new year. Since taking over in January 2017, Stef has transformed the not-for-profit organisation with its mission to create partnerships and lead programmes which make Portsmouth Britain’s premier waterfront city in which to invest, live, learn, work and visit. […]
Help Portsmouth’s pupils explore their futures
After a successful pilot run in July this year, Shaping Portsmouth’s Explore Your Future Business Workshop was offered to all senior schools in Portsmouth on Monday 11th September and we are looking for local businesses to get involved. The aim of these sessions will be to support students in years 7-9 to understand more about […]