Explore Your Future relaunches following successful pilot
September saw the relaunch of our Explore Your Future programme, delivered in partnership with the Solent Careers Hub, and redesigned to give secondary school students a clearer picture of the local career opportunities available to them, as well as giving employers the chance to connect with their future workforce. The relaunch comes after a pilot […]
Episode 19: Tim Forer
In this episode, CEO Dave Humphries speaks to Tim Forer about longstanding Shaping Portsmouth Patron Blake Morgan, and United Services Portsmouth Rugby Club.
Relaunching Explore Your Future – and a call for employers
We’re excited to announce the relaunch of Explore Your Future (EYF), employer‑led programme designed to inspire students in Years 7–9 and open their eyes to the world of work, local industries, and future opportunities. EYF provides young people with meaningful encounters that help build confidence, curiosity, and aspiration at a crucial stage in their development. With your support, […]
Making plans from International Women’s Day
Last week, Charla, Marian and Suzan spent some time together reflecting on International Women’s Day. They talked about what it means to be women in business, about equality, the theme of give to gain and most importantly how we as a team could create something that supports lasting change. So often there is a spotlight […]
Episode 82: Women in Business
Charla Grant, Suzan Win Latt, and Marian Glover reflect on International Women’s Day and this years theme of Give to Gain, the SLR Recruitment IWD event, their own lunch meeting about how to extend the IWD celebration across the whole year, and their plans for a new Women in Business initiative that came out of it.
Episode 107: Explore Your Future
Education Pillar Lead Sarah Thompson chats with Jess Fisher, Enterprise Coordinator at the Solent Careers Hub, about the Hub and her role, Shaping Portsmouth’s Explore Your Future programme, why it was created, the importance of introducing young people to the wide variety of careers open to them and giving them hands on experience, the pilot sessions we ran at the end of the last academic year, the updated programme that relaunched in September, and how local businesses can get involved.
Shaping Portsmouth and Spinnaker Tower bring Explore Your Future to Portsmouth Academy
On Thursday 9th November, our Shaping Portsmouth Education coordinator Kirsty Hill and Volunteer Programme Lead Chloe Bolton delivered an Explore Your Future Business Workshop session at Portsmouth Academy with Tony Sammut, the general manager from the Spinnaker Tower. We had an opportunity to spend a couple of hours with 25 Portsmouth Academy students across year […]
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 […]
Explore Your Future’s In-class session has officially launched!
On Monday 17th July the Shaping Portsmouth Explore Your Future programme team delivered a pilot run of our new In-Class Sessions at Trafalgar School. The programme aims to support students in years 7 to 9 to understand more about the world of work and the local labour market. It will provide an early employer intervention for […]
Explore Your Future to expand into schools
After the success of the Explore Your Future videos, the team are keen to develop this programme into an in-person offer for schools. There is a clear appetite from schools for more opportunities for their students to engage and interact with local employers and businesses. This has encouraged us to reimagine the Explore Your Future offer and […]