Local Events & Projects
We are using this page to promote events happening in the city to give a platform to local groups and draw campaigns together.
Fill out our form with details of your event or project and we’ll add it to this page :)
Friends Without Borders Fundraiser
Friends Without Borders presents:
An evening of music and poetry from around the world.
Held in support of FWB 30th Anniversary and Access to Justices 10th Anniversary.
Friday 1st November 7.30-11pm
The Dockyard Club, PO5 2NH
Placard Making Workshop
Saturday 9th November, 2pm - 5pm
Milton Village Hall, 182 Milton Road, Southsea PO4 8PR
Join us for a crafty afternoon and connect with likeminded people.
Make a placard for the upcoming COP29 demo! We’ll be providing some craft materials and inspiration but you are welcome to bring your own as well.
Pure Ground Coffee Shop will be open for drinks and snacks.
Tickets are free but please let us know you are coming by booking your place on Eventbrite
Drilling 101 – The Basics of Drilling (Women’s DIY Skill Share)
Hosted by Repair Cafe Portsmouth
So often DIY and power tools are aimed at men, which is why we’re developing a series of workshops to change the gender narrative by giving skills and confidence to the women that need it.
In this 1.5 hour workshop you’ll learn about using a drill safely, get practical experience of drilling, have an opportunity to ask questions and enjoy a cuppa. By the time you leave, you should feel confident to have a go at putting up a shelf. Click here to find out more and to buy your ticket.
Portsmouth Climate Choir
Next rehearsal: Monday 11th November
📍Repair Cafe, Cascades, Portsmouth (Entry via Spoons, Charlotte Street)
The Portsmouth Climate Choir has been borne.
Come and join us. No singing ability necessary.
We are a community of people that care about the environment, who want to sing to the earth, and raise awareness or local and national issues.
Global Day of Action for Climate Justice
Saturday 16th November
11am Guildhall Square
11.30am Barclays Bank
12.15pm Cascades
In November, world leaders will gather in Baku, Azerbaijan for the 29th UN climate summit. (Read more here)
Join us to sound the alarm, demand meaningful climate action and connect the dots between climate change, inequality, and war. We’ll move between three locations in the city centre, joined by Portsmouth Climate Choir, Palestine Solidarity and other climate and social justice groups.
Turning Tides is hosting a Placard Making Workshop to make placards for this day of action
Southsea Beachwatch
Monthly beach cleans and litter surveys for the Marine Conservation Society's Beachwatch Programme.
Beach cleans are the first Saturday of each month
Southsea Green
Southsea Green is the Community Association for the Community Garden at Canoe Lake (shared grow space and work-space).
Sustainable Sewing: Stitch-it-don't-ditch it !
Sustainable Textiles has been running for almost 6 years in Portmouth. Learn how to thread a needle, learn how to repair your clothes and other textiles. Try the ultimate Power-tool! FREE We also have sewing projects to make-n-take: optional donation: pay-as-you-can.
Slow-Sew: hand-sewing at Southsea Library no need to book 1st and 3rd Weds of the month. 10.30 am.
Power-Sew: at Community Room St. Judes Church. 10 sewing-machines and cheery volunteer teachers. Booking essential. 3rd Monday. of the month
New venues and times to be announced. Join the mailing-list: the dates and venues are emailed at the beginning of each month.
Southsea.sustex@gmail.com
Activ8
Activ8 is a start-up developing an app that incentivises and rewards environmental activism across 5 key sectors: Political, Economic, Educational, Legislative, & Local activism.
Launching in June 2024 we aim to be your one-stop-shop for environmental activism and we're working hard to build out sustainable business partners who will give you discounts for shopping sustainably!
Please visit our website and sign up to join the wait-list!
For any questions contact: brandonreynolds@activ8global.co.uk
Project Climate Vote
We’ve got a plan to recruit 1 million climate voters before the next election. And we need you to make it happen.
We’re going to go door-to-door to recruit climate voters - we’ll get people to cast their vote for climate and put up posters in their windows - making climate voters a real presence in communities. This will put huge pressure on politicians seeking election and force the next government to take serious climate action.
Borrow Bags
(Final Straw Foundation project)
“Together we can work together to encourage a less wasteful society with small schemes like this, encouraging people to think twice about single-use plastic bags and plastic in general.”
Borrow Bags are made up by local sewing volunteers and given to shops that have signed up to the scheme for shoppers to borrow and bring back when they remember. They are made from reclaimed material – from old curtains to offcuts of sail fabric, saving it from landfill and repurposing it to become something useful.
“We know that not all the bags will come back to the shops, but hope that a few will, and we can reduce the plastic even further in the area and across the country.”
If you'd like to volunteer to sew these bags, please get in contact by either emailing Hannah: or Final Straw Foundation through their contact form here.
Pompey B
(Campaign for Participatory Budgeting)
The aims of PompeyB are to establish a Participatory Budgeting process which can be developed into a regular year long event, which is rules based, and with principles based on equality, social justice, belonging, anti-poverty accountability and transparency.
We also believe that where surveys and consultations have their place within local democracy, this is not enough to engage genuinely and effectively local people and their communities. To seriously tackle the issues related to climate breakdown, you need communities to be on board and have a meaningful say. Therefore, deliberative approaches, such as PB, are absolutely essential.
Anyone is welcome to be involved, any age, race, gender, sexuality etc. You don’t need to be an expert in how local government works, just a passion for local democracy and a skill that you would want to bring to the group. Contact Pompey B to get involved
Fridays For Future
Paul Bleach, 56, has been outside Portsmouth City Council Offices every Friday since 27th October calling on local government to take more action on the climate crisis in Portsmouth, with introducing more green policies and tackling air pollution.
“I want to encourage hope within the community and people can join me, I will be here every Friday from 12.30-1.30, so if they can support me for an hour then we can expand on hope.”
You can join Paul every Friday from 12.30-1.30pm outside the council offices at guildhall square.
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