Portsmouth · startup
So You Want To Start A Business?
Organised by Shaping Portsmouth, at Portsmouth Guildhall.
- Date
- Tue 27 Oct
- Time · UK
- 18:00 – 19:30
- Price
- Free
Booking happens on shapingportsmouth.co.uk; details checked Monday, 19 October 2026.
About this event
A free 90-minute evening session from the Portsmouth Business Support Service for people with a business idea or just starting out, covering testing the idea, finding customers and the finance and legal basics.
Getting there
No car park at the building and no accessible parking directly at the Guildhall; a very small number of on-street spaces on King Henry 1st Street. Nearest is Isambard Brunel multi-storey (Alec Rose Lane, about 200m; Portsmouth City Council; 1.9m height limit; Blue Badge exemption does NOT apply here). Blue Badge holders can park free in the Isambard Brunel pay-and-display surface car park and other council-owned pay-and-display car parks (not NCP).
Isambard Brunel multi-storey car park
4 min walk
Isambard Brunel surface car park
3 min walk
Portsmouth & Southsea station is just across the square (about 2 minutes on foot). Local and regional buses stop at Commercial Road City Centre (about 5 minutes); Guildhall Civic Offices stops are on Isambard Brunel Road. National coaches use The Hard Interchange, about 15 minutes' walk.
- Portsmouth & Southsea · 2 min walk
- Portsmouth Harbour · 18 min walk
- Guildhall Civic Offices (Stop K) · 3 min walk
- Guildhall Civic Offices (Stop M) · 3 min walk
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