Episode 32: Pompey in the Community
In this episode Shaping Portsmouth CEO Dave Humphries chats with Clare Martin MBE, CEO of Pompey in the Community, about the charity, their work, and the John Jenkins Stadium.
Introducing our new Co-Chair
The Shaping Team are pleased to announce that Yvonne Clay has been named as the new Co-Chair of our Board of Directors alongside existing Co-Chair Mark Waldron. Yvonne was previously Non-Executive Director for Marketing on the board, and is replacing Simon Barrable, who decided to step down from the role earlier this year. She is […]
Episode 34: Retrain Your Brain
In this episode Shaping Portsmouth’s Operations Manager Steff Jones talks to Julie Gordon, Mindset Manager from Retrain Your Brain, about the business, mindfulness, and mind health around menopause, perimenopause, and Long Covid.
Victorious raffle raises £1900 for charity
We are delighted to announce that our raffle for a signed Portsmouth Football Club shirt raised £1900 over the Victorious Festival weekend. The funds were raised for local charity The Road From Karachi to install clean water pumps across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. 20% of the funds received go towards providing workshops in […]
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 35: Portsmouth & South Coast Business Week
CEO Dave Humphries talks to Aaron Butson from HSDC and Becky Miles from the University of Portsmouth about Portsmouth & South Coast Business Week.
Episode 36: Citrus Facilities Management
CEO Dave Humphries talks to Daniel O’Brien, Managing Director of Citrus Facilities Management, about the organisation and their work in the city and community.
Episode 37: Digital Resilience – Building a Strong Cyber Culture
In this episode, CEO David Humphries talks to Lisa Gibbs, Digital Resilience Programme Lead, about digital risks to SMEs, building a strong Cyber Culture within businesses, and the support available from the Digital Resilience programme.
The NCSC resource on Cyber Culture can be found at https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/board-toolkit/principle-c-people/developing-a-positive-cyber-security-culture
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 […]