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Portsea Action Group, which has been running since 1999, has been taking charge on matters that affect the local community in a bid to make their local area a better place, and one of their biggest goals is to try and reinstate the GPs in Portsea.

It currently has 15 voting members, and they have a range of representatives who support them with local issues. They work alongside local police, schools, other community groups and businesses.

Their latest venture has been opening the doors of a new community hub based in Queens Street, Portsea, to provide people with a warm and safe space which is particularly important as the cost of living crisis continues to worry many residents across Hampshire.

Local residents at the new community hub at the John Pounds Centre.

The centre is going to be open four days a week, and they are able to offer a heated space that has hot drinks and there is also the option for people to have snacks, free of charge.

Brenda Tregarthen, chair person of the group, said: ‘The hub came about, obviously we have always used the John Pounds Centre, but we wanted a space to call our own. We had a bit of funding left over from previous years and we got a group together and from that meeting people said ‘why don’t you look for something in the area as a community hub’ and that is how it all came about really.’

Portsea Action Group set up their first community hub

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