In May 2009 Channel 4's Time Team arrived in Portsmouth at the invitation of the Friends of the Garrison Church. The object of the visit was to carry out exploratory investigations into the 13th Century hospice that was known to have existed where today we see Governor's Green. The 3 day exercise (yes, they really do dig for just three days) answered a lot of the questions the Friends has asked the team to investigate and you can see the results in the Time Team episode to be broadcast by Channel 4 in August 2010 (postponed from 13th June). A summary of the visit is available at our sister site at www.history.inportsmouth.co.uk/events/time-team.htm
 

You may have heard of Freecycle, but like us may not have known how to get involved locally. Portsmouth Freegle (Free Giving, Locally and Easily) is a local community recycling group - and is part of the UK based Freegle Network. You join if you have an item that you no longer want but that still has life left in it and which can be used by someone else. You send in your offer and other members of the group request it. After an exchange of emails you choose a recipient and they come and collect the item. All items have to be free and legal. You can find your local group at www.ilovefreegle.org or go to the Portsmouth group at http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Portsmouth_Freegle
 

For those of you not already aware, the InPortsmouth and InSouthsea websites are but the most prominent tip of a growing stable of sites produced by Community Internet Services. The company set out in 1998 to create a local Portsmouth community of sites on the net and has now reached the sum of 40 local sites. InPortsmouth remains as our flagship but, as ever, we are aware that it is continually going out of date. We apologise if this has caused any inconvenience. We review of our listings on a regular basis, but some sections may be a couple of years old. Its not too difficult to weed out the obsolete references but we still need to know of new businesses opening in their place.
 

In common with many of our fellow website designers we are certainly feeling the effects of the financial downturn. But no matter how bad it becomes we will not allow it to affect the services we bring to you via the InPortsmouth and InSouthsea websites. In fact we look on this as a time to build up the non-profit making websites we run, most notably our History in Portsmouth and Memorials in Portsmouth websites. In other areas we have recently revamped two sites for the City Council's Health Improvement & Development Services and are continuing to develop sites for Albert Road Traders and Portsmouth & Southsea Hoteliers.
 
One of the ongoing projects that has given us most satisfaction is our work with the various Mental Health organisations in Portsmouth which is expressed through the thinkingAHEAD website which has recently had a thorough makeover. Through building this site we have been able to watch the Mental Health Services at work and we're rather impressed by the support that is currently offered people with mental heath problems.