Thursday 27th October 2026: Portsmouth Mentors Connect
Thursday 27th October 2026 For the first time, we are bringing together the mentors who generously share their time, experience and expertise to support businesses across Portsmouth. Organised to coincide with National Mentoring Day, Portsmouth Mentors Connect 2026 is a practical, supportive and celebratory event created to recognise our volunteer mentors, strengthen connections and help […]
Episode 50: GRP Solutions
Dave Humphries talks to Brian Harpur, Managing Director of GRP Solutions, about his journey to Portsmouth and founding the business, their community focus, and the Naomi House Big Five Challenge.
Wednesday 21st October 2026: Portsmouth Business Leaders Forum
Wednesday 21st October 2026 Shaping Portsmouth’s biannual Portsmouth Business Leaders Forum returns for the Autumn edition. We’d love you to join us for our 6-monthly update, exciting speakers and networking at Portsmouth Grammar School. Agenda TBA. This is an invitation-only event. If you would like to find out more, please contact Steff Jones, Operations Manager,at […]
Wednesday 7th October 2026: Preparing for the Sexual Harassment Law Changes
Wednesday 7th October 2026 | 15:00 to 17:00 Business leaders and HR professionals across Portsmouth are invited to a free practical session to help their organisations prepare for forthcoming changes to sexual harassment law. Hosted by Engendering Change in collaboration with Shaping Portsmouth, the two-hour session will take place on Wednesday 7 October, from 3pm […]
Episode 51: Shaping Portsmouth Pillar Leads
In this episode, Shaping Portsmouth’s Pillar Leads, Marian Glover, Suzan Win Latt, and Amy Cusack, take over the podcast to chat about their roles, what their programmes have been up to recently, and champion their amazing Programme Leads.
Episode 52: Solent Mind
In this episode, Steff Jones talks to Chris West from Solent Mind about improving workplace wellbeing with The Five Ways to Wellbeing, and joining the team as our new Workplace Health & Wellbeing Programme Lead.
Episode 53: Hampshire Flag Company
CEO Dave Humphries speaks to Rod Sessions, Commercial Director at Hampshire Flag Company, about the company and their family business ethos, both internally and in the community, in particular supporting Portsmouth Pride and UK Pride and being a Patron of Shaping Portsmouth.
Episode 54: Victorious Festival
Steff Jones talks to Tiff Gaskell and Shola Hood from Victorious Festival about how the festival has grown over the years, how they came to be working in their roles, the challenges and impact of the event on the city, and what’s coming up at the festival this summer.
“Let’s Catch Up in the New Year”
Every year starts the same way. Out-of-office messages disappear, diaries begin to fill, and by February, conversations that ended with “Let’s catch up in the New Year” suddenly need to happen. Portsmouth & South Coast Business Week 2026 Taking place on 23-27th February, the business week is the annual showcase and celebration of our regional business community […]
Episode 55: Podcastiversary!
It’s our Podcastiversary! Podiversary? In this extra-special episode, Dave Humphries and Steff Jones look back at our first year of podcasts, chat about how it got started, pick some clips from their favourite episodes, and even tease our Conference in January 2026.