About Visit Portishead
Visit Portishead is our town's online residents' resource and tourist information centre.
On this page please read:
- About us
- Our mission
- Our principles: environmental, inclusion, continuous improvement
- Who we are
- Where we are
- Please get in touch if you'd like to help or have an idea to improve the website
About Us
The idea of creating this website came from a group of like-minded Portishead residents, keen to promote the town and what it has to offer, to visitors as well as members of the local community. All credit must go to our editor, forever-resident and local journalist, Tracey Fowler, who nurtured the idea for many years and provided the drive and enthusiasm to persuade the rest of the team to give it a go. Rest assured, we're now all committed to the cause!
Two members of the group run Blue Tree Web Design Ltd, and it is thanks to them we have managed to produce this informative website. Local PR professional Tracey Fowler, graphic designer and promotions expert, Tracie Fry, work together to gather information, and help us present it in a user-friendly way.
Other group members include volunteers involved in community organisations and business owners, all of whom are keen to see Portishead continue to thrive both socially and economically. We have also received support by way of a grant from Portishead Town Council to assist in the development of the site.
To contact any member of the team, please get in touch using the contact form below.
Our Mission
Visit Portishead CIC is a community interest company, started and funded by businesses and individuals in and around Portishead. Our aim is to promote Portishead as the go-to destination for tourism and business, to encourage visitors, once here, to use the amenities we have, and to encourage people who live here to use what they have on their doorstep.
How it Works
We promote Portishead, online, in print and in any way we can. We welcome ideas, information, photographs, copywriters, plus a little money when offered to cover the overheads.
Individuals, charities and other organisations, all with an on-going interest in Portishead contribute to the website. Businesses benefit from an advertisement and editorial content in relevant sections on the website. Everyone who contributes hours, photos and content, gets a mention, should they want it.
Our Principles
We want to promote Portishead and its surrounding areas to the best of our ability, along with everyone who's prepared to help. We want to do things properly, so we have adopted attitudes and policies covering the environment, inclusivity and continuous improvement.
Privacy Policy
We ask for contact details if you want to publish an event in our calendar, or an entry in our business directory or organisations list, or so we can reply to you if you ask us a question. If you give us permission, we will publish your details on our website. Your details are also held in the database that drives our directories and lists and in our email records.
We will never use them for any purpose other than that which you provided them, neither will we share them with anyone outside our organisation. However, we cannot stop people from reading them online.
If you'd like to know what information we hold on you, or would like us to delete it, please use the form below to send your request.
Environment
We all have families so, for the sake of our descendants, we have major interest in how our BS20 community embraces the future. This controls how we work, develop and present information and accept suggestions from our local community.
Inclusivity
We're happy to work with, and will publish, history, articles, advertisements, events and club information, from any person, business or organsation within the BS20 post code.
We're apolitical. We won't publish anything remotely political, including party or election material. We will publish political events submitted close to, and before, a local or national election where BS20 post code is involved.
Continuous Improvement
We strive to get everything right first time, but acknowledge we won't always succeed, so if you spot an error, or have any ideas for improvement, please let us know using the form at the bottom of this page.
Who We Are
We are a small group of residents who are passionate about Portishead. All of us have lived here for a long time and have seen the town grow. It's an amazing place to live, work and visit. A combination of old and new, it has a wealth of history for those who seek it, in a modern world of excellent restaurants, great shopping and things to do. It's the perfect place in which to live, work and bring up a family.
With a growing business community and the lowest unemployment in the area, Portishead is a great place to start a business, get a job, or commute to Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucester.
Promotion, Advertising and Editorial Content
Tracey Fowler
Tracey grew up in a family run newsagents on the Cabstand and has had shops in Portishead High Street. She worked as a local reporter for many years and has, over the years, enjoyed the role of editor of several local magazines, including Gordano Living and Portishead and Clevedon Resident. Tracey also runs a small PR and marketing company working with designer Tracie Fry and volunteers with many local events and organisations.
Promotion, Advertising and Design
Tracie Fry - Creative Solutions
Tracie grew up locally and lives and works in Portishead. With a background in graphics design, sales, marketing, and promotions,Tracie liaises with local businesses to bring them into the Visit Portishead fold and ensures their presence on this site is promoted in the best possible way. Tracie is an artist, graphic designer and freelance creative consultant. She also works with Tracey Fowler on local marketing and promotional events and projects.
Worldwide Webbers
BlueTree Website Design Ltd and christopherfielden.com
Dave and Mark Fielden at BlueTree have've been working on the internet since before the turn of the century. After some big development projects and providing digital marketing for global corporations, they now help local small businesses stand out on the worldwide web. They're particularly pleased when they help a Portishead sole trader, a professional, or business start-up to build their online presence.
Chris Fielden (@ChrisFielden) writes a popular, international, short story blog that helps authors find their way to market. On it, he runs a short story writing competition and flash fiction challenges, aimed at improving the knowledge and abilities of his readers, as well as raising money for charity.
Chris also owns a Harley Davidson Fat Boy, and you can join him for a ride through Portishead's world-famous Christmas Lights.
Market Researchers
Original research was carried out with the help of Kate Ward, Avon View Bed and Breakfast
Photographers
Bob Cartwright, Mark Harris, Alan Harrison and Nick Church.
Other photos supplied by photography students, Chloe Wall, Ben Edwards and Skye Fowler and local organisations who submit events and club details to our events diary and organisations pages.
Movies provided by:
Portishead History
Sandy Tebbutt was a historian, author of the Posset Pieces local history books, and an active member of the Gordano Society, who contributed enormously to the recorded history of Portishead and we're delighted to include some of her pages on Visit Portishead.
Peter Milsom, who has a very keen interest in the history of Portishead, is now becoming a major contributor to the history section on the website.
Nigel Coombes is a long-time resident of Portishead and played a significant part in the last flourish of paddle steamers and excursion steamships visiting the Bristol Channel.
Walkers
Some of our walks have been provided by Michael Watts of Portishead Strollers and Mike Johnson.
Where We Are
We are a Community Interest Company, Visit Portishead CIC, company number 14439431, registered in England and Wales,
Our volunteers all live in Portishead. We don't have an office, we all work from home and meet in each other's houses. This is our address for correspondence:
Visit Portishead CIC,
16a Beach Road West,
Portishead,
BS20 7HR
How to Get in Touch
If you'd like to comment or contribute, please send us a message using the form below.