Fratton Community Centre
Creative community work linked to local pride, participation and shared ownership.
Community Street Art Projects
Creative projects that bring pride, colour and belonging into Portsmouth communities.
Place-based community work
Street art as connection, confidence and pride in place.
Climb Nova supports community art that gives people a visible stake in their neighbourhood and creates positive shared spaces.
Portsea Adventure Playground
Street art that helps young people and families feel connected to the places they use.
The Roberts Centre
Community art connected to support, visibility and positive local identity.
Landport Community Art
Neighbourhood creativity that celebrates place, voice and belonging.
Community art in action
Children designed it, the community backed it, and the walls became theirs.
Across Landport, The Roberts Centre, Fratton Community Centre and Portsea Adventure Playground, Climb Nova helped turn children's ideas into public artwork that belongs to the communities who see it every day.
John created the Community Street Art Projects to give young people a different kind of platform: one where their imagination could be seen, valued and protected. Children were invited to design artwork through a competition, and the project then raised the money needed to buy the paint and materials.
Once the designs were chosen, the children were able to come along and put their own ideas onto the walls. That mattered. It meant young people could walk past a space in their neighbourhood and say, "That is my work." It created pride, ownership and a visible reminder that they are part of the story of their community.
The work reached communities facing deep deprivation and pressure, including areas understood locally as being within the most deprived 5% nationally. In places where people can feel forgotten, community art became a way of saying that children, families and neighbourhoods deserve colour, care and investment.
Landport, Fratton and Portsea in one story
A video covering the community street art work across Landport, The Roberts Centre, Fratton Community Centre and Portsea Adventure Playground.
Designed by children
The artwork began with a competition, giving children a real voice in what would appear in their own neighbourhood spaces.
Fundraised with purpose
Climb Nova helped raise the money for paint and materials so the ideas could move from paper onto the walls.
Built for ownership
The goal was not just a painted wall. It was confidence, pride and children being able to say, "I helped make this."
People behind the project
Real relationships made the work possible.
The projects brought together lived experience, street creativity, local families, community centres and public support.
Art Form and old roots
Neil brought the street art skill and the trust that comes from lived connection.
John pulled in his old friend Neil, a B-Boy and graffiti artist connected with Art Form. They knew the streets together as young lads through breakdancing and street culture, so Neil did not arrive as an outsider. He brought real creative skill, calm encouragement and the kind of credibility that helps young people relax and take part.
Dame Penny Mordaunt's attendance helped shine a light on the children, the families and the communities involved. Her presence recognised that these were not small side projects. They were acts of pride, care and local ownership in places that deserve to be seen.
Landport
Community creativity can help people feel seen.
Projects like these sit alongside wider community development work, giving residents, young people and local partners something positive and visible to build around.
