Players are building stronger connections across Portsmouth with visits to the Historic Dockyard and schools among the dates in their diary

Pompey Women are continuing to build stronger connections across Portsmouth, with players getting out into the community and celebrating the city’s people and heritage.

Pompey Women have been building stronger ties with the community. Players recently visited the Historic Dockyard to learn more about the city's heritage. | Portsmouth FC

placeholder image — Pompey Women have been building stronger ties with the community. Players recently visited the Historic Dockyard to learn more about the city's heritage. | Portsmouth FC

Following the club’s Portsmouth100 celebrations at Fratton Park earlier this season, the Blues have continued to play an active role across the city as they look to bring the team closer to the community they represent.

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Captain Jazz Bull spent time with Pompey in the Community visiting a Junior Pan-Disability session to meet the young players, answer questions and join in with the session. Ava Rowbotham, Zoe Barratt, Summer Hughes, Ella Pettit and Katie Wilson visited Portsmouth Historic Dockyard for a tour of HMS Victory while last week Kerry Beattie and Annie Wilding met young fans at Crofton Anne Dale School in Stubbington.

At the dockyard the players had the opportunity to learn more about the city’s naval history before taking this season’s Pompey shirts to HMS Warrior for a series of photographs. The partnership between the team and the Dockyard stretches back to last season, when Jazz helped unveil Pompey Women’s new mascot, Mary Rose, inside the Mary Rose Museum.

Pompey Women have been building stronger ties with the community. Players recently visited young fans at Crofton Anne Dale School in Stubbington. | Portsmouth FC

Mary Rose has since become a regular presence at Pompey Women fixtures and can be found meeting young supporters in the FanZone before every home game.

A club spokesman said: ‘With all of Pompey Women’s home league fixtures now taking place at Fratton Park, the club is looking to use the move to strengthen the relationship between the team, supporters and the wider city.

From community building to celebrating Portsmouth’s heritage, the aim is to ensure the team is increasingly visible beyond matchdays and represents the city both on and off the pitch.’