Episode 10: Cruise Passenger Meet & Greets

Shaping Portsmouth CEO Dave Humphries and Business Programme Lead Marian Glover discuss our Cruise Passenger programme Meet & Greets with Vanessa Busfield, Portsmouth Ambassador and programme co-lead.
Thousands flock to Guildhall Squared Festival in celebration of city’s Centenary!

From 5 – 10 May, thousands of people came together in the heart of the city to celebrate 100 years of Portsmouth’s city status as part of a brand-new festival, Guildhall Squared. The Guildhall Squared Arts Festival saw a giant festival tent in Guildhall Square come to life with a wide variety of performances, events, activities, […]
Episode 12: Digital Resilience – Cyber-Awareness Training

In this episode, Digital Resilience programme lead Lisa Gibbs and Ant Morley from Zinq IT discuss how you can protect your business with Cyber-Awareness Training.
Portsmouth joins national campaign to support local market traders

Portsmouth City Council is celebrating the vital role of its markets as part of the national Love Your Local Market campaign running from 15 to 30 May. From fresh produce and street food to independent traders and community events, the Love Your Local Market campaign shines a spotlight on the diversity of Portsmouth’s markets, alongside a programme of special […]
Episode 13: Sara Woods from Solent Sky Services

In this episode, CEO Dave Humphries speaks to Sara Woods from our partner Solent Sky Services.
Fostering Friendly Business Summit celebrates city-wide support for foster carers

This week, Fair Ways hosted the first Portsmouth Fostering Friendly Business Summit, bringing together businesses, charities and community leaders from across the city to explore how workplaces can better support foster carers, care leavers and those with experience of the fostering system. CP, our Chief Operating Officer, attended on behalf of Shaping Portsmouth, joining many […]
Episode 15: Digital Resilience – Chris White from South East Cyber Resilience Centre

In this episode, Ant Morley from our Digital Resilience programme and Zinq IT talks to Chris White from South East Cyber Resilience Centre.
Join City of Portsmouth College for a Centenary Flashmob

Calling City Centre Businesses! Come and join us on Thursday 11th June at 11.30am in Guildhall Square to support the 250+ dancers taking part in a flashmob dance performance to mark Portsmouth100, organised by City of Portsmouth College. Don’t worry, the students are doing all of the dancing, so we just want to come out […]
Episode 16: Portsmouth Youth Cabinet

In this episode, CEO Dave Humphries speaks to representatives from Portsmouth Youth Cabinet: Mackenzie Bird, Meghan Albrecht and Maheep Kaur, plus Jessi Wilson the Youth Cabinet Facilitator from Unloc.
Episode 18: Neil Chapman on Prostate Cancer Awareness – International Men’s Day Special

In this International Men’s Day special episode, Shaping CEO Dave Humphries has a candid conversation with Neil Chapman, Managing Director of Hovertravel, about their personal experience with Prostate-Specific Antigen testing and Prostate Cancer.