Tag: Community

Levelling Up funding kick starts major Portsmouth port development

Portsmouth International Port’s terminal transformation has officially begun, as contractors Knights Brown started construction on a new carbon-neutral terminal extension, which will strengthen the city’s position as a major UK port and is one of the UK’s first Levelling Up projects to get underway. The port has been awarded £11.25m funding from the Department for […]

Join memory-making Jubilee Celebrations at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

  Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust and its partners at the National Museum of the Royal Navy and the world-class Mary Rose Trust invite communities from near and far to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on Sunday 5th June, to mark the Queen’s 70th year on the throne, and commemorate the D-Day anniversary. Visitors will be able to […]

Shaping Portsmouth signs the Care Leaver Covenant

Shaping Portsmouth are pleased to announce that we have signed the Care Leaver Covenant. This means that we recognise the challenges that young people face when they leave the care system and begin to live independently. We are prepared to offer support to care leavers to improve their life chances and help them make a […]

Tell us about your businesses Workplace Health & Wellbeing

We would like Portsmouth to be the leading City in the UK on Employee Health and Wellbeing support. Our Workplace Health & Wellbeing programme team are asking all Portsmouth businesses to help support our programme by filling in a short questionnaire to tell us about your current health and wellbeing priorities, provisions, barriers, or resources. […]

Port Solent gets into top gear for Summer Car Meets

Summer evenings at Port Solent are back on track, with the return of the group Car Meets running every Thursday from 31st May to the end of August. Motor fans from across the region will be en route for the weekly auto fix, featuring sensational supercars and cool classics. These will run in addition to […]

Ports Fest 2022 Goes Live – Four days of epic experiences

Ports Fest is back From June 30th  to July 3rd! This year the theme has evolved to Remember, Reimagine, Reignite and Ports Fest are thrilled to present a summer programme packed with ambitious events and truly immersive experiences, all for your enjoyment in real life! The festival springs into action on Thursday 30th of June […]

Glittering exhibition tells city’s story

A major exhibition of beautiful silver objects opens in Portsmouth this month, telling the stories of historical figures and ordinary local people alike. Silver City: 500 years of Portsmouth’s History, will display treasures from Portsmouth City Council’s collection of civic silver, one of the most nationally significant outside London. Also on show will be precious […]

Engineering projects and inventions impress visitors to HSDC South Downs

Floating tables, petrol-powered push bikes and lightweight Bluetooth speakers are just a handful of incredible projects and inventions designed by HSDC Engineering students. Engineering Project Day at the South Downs Campus took place on 12 May, with resourceful students demonstrating their creative engineering skills to HSDC staff, other students and more than 30 local companies. […]

Rock up to Totally Tributes at Port Solent

The best of Queen, The Beatles, Madness and Bon Jovi – and many more music legends – will be raising the tempo at Port Solent’s free Totally Tributes event on Saturday 23rd July.   Dress up, dance and sing along with some of the best tribute acts around who will be performing a magical musical […]