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The PYC Service sits within Portsmouth City Council’s Housing, Neighbourhood and Buildings Directorate. Our locality based provision is supported by additional council funding and grants which enable us to offer open access services to all City residents.

PYC manages four community centres; provides six staffed adventure playgrounds and four youth clubs across the city and runs three additional youth projects. We also administer the HAF programme on behalf of the Children’s, Families and Education Directorate.

Play and Youth spaces support from early childhood in to adulthood, providing safe recreational spaces which are also informal educational environments, where children and young people are supported with their mental health and wellbeing.

Our staff receive specialist training in safeguarding and restorative practice, and in supporting children, young people and their families.

We run workshops in areas that impact children and young people, such as domestic abuse; healthy relationships; knife crime and exploitation; and eating healthily; thereby contributing as an early intervention service, reducing anti-social behaviour, risk of harm and improving life chances.

The objective of the adventure playgrounds is to offer ‘freely chosen play’ in adherence to Article 31 of the UN convention on the rights of the child to engage in play and recreational activity and participate freely in cultural life.

Youth work offers young people safe spaces to explore their identity, experience decision-making, increase their confidence, develop inter-personal skills and think through the consequences of their actions. This leads to better informed choices, changes in activity and improved outcomes for young people.

For further information please refer to our website : pycportsmouth.co.uk

Pompey in the Community promotes education, healthy living and sporting participation and achievement among people of all ages.

Pompey Pedals gives people the opportunity to cycle on a regular basis through help, support and guidance.

The two centres in Portsmouth are at Portsmouth Bransbury Park and Portsmouth Mountbatten Centre.

We are open during term time and the school holidays. Entry is free for 6 – 13 year olds. Younger children are welcome too but must be accompanied by their parent or an adult 18yrs+, they must also be supervised at all times when on the adventure playground.

Our adventure playground is staffed by fully qualified Play Workers who encourage imagination, confidence and independence.

We are a collective of reliable and trusted expert Independent Opticians, and we are here to help give you the very best advice, care and solutions for all of your eye care needs.

We believe that you and your family deserve to receive the very best care. Our brilliant branches are run by our friendly teams, all of whom will go above and beyond to make sure that your time spent with us is both productive and a pleasant experience.

Home Visits and Online Services
With these uncertain times surrounding Covid-19, we are fully aware that a lot of our customers are unable to leave the safety of their homes to attend appointments at our branches. We also understand that not everyone has access to transportation, that is why we have gone the extra mile to put in place a service to help!

You can arrange for one of our fully trained members of staff to visit you in the comfort of your own home. We have our very own portable technology that allows us to conduct the same exceptional standard of service off-site. We also offer our expert advice and services online too!

The Portsea Men’s Shed is located in the Wickham Street Car Park opposite the Hard Interchange bus station. The entrance is through an open gate on the corner of Wickham Street and Clock Street.

We are open to visitors, prospective new members and people asking for our help in carrying out handicraft projects on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings from 9:30am.

The library runs a number of activities as well as loaning books, CD's, DVD's and online magazine subscriptions.

Facilities
Public PCs
Printer
Wifi
Café in John Pounds Community Centre
Public/disabled toilets in John Pounds Community Centre
Baby changing in John Pounds Community Centre

At the heart of our work is a pursuit of excellence as we believe this is the best way to do well by our children. This encompasses both academic excellence and the cultivation of character. We want to give our students deep subject knowledge, but we also want to help them to become life- long learners who can thrive in the 21st century.

Adoption Support Service

We welcome all those with a neurological condition to our groups, please call for a chat on 07510752536 or email us at portsmouth@mssociety.org.uk or even better come along to our next seated yoga class.
The Portsmouth and District Multiple Sclerosis Society provides a much loved and valued service for the community. 

We run a drop in for lunch or coffee on the First Tuesday of the month at: The Spring Arts Centre, 56 East Street, Havant, PO9 1BS.

We now run a chair yoga group on a Wednesday morning from 11am to 12 noon at Fratton Community Centre. With several of us staying on for coffee or lunch after the session at the Community Centre's very reasonable cafe.

We run another seated yoga exercise group from 10.30 - 12noon on Mondays in the Community Room at Tesco Extra, Fratton Way, Portsmouth apart from the last Monday in the month which is a coffee morning from 10am - 12 noon. All welcome - family, friends, carers.