Shaal Karim, a former City Gateway Apprentice now working with Gateway Media, reflects on some of the ways his life has changed as the result of the training he has taken.

Zoe Millard, a freelance drama facilitator, reveals the insights she's found as she, and her friend Jules Marshall, launched a new 'Creative English' course. The free course at the Lansbury Lodge Women's Project aims to help women of East London intregate in the community with confidence.
 
The free two hour class is run by, myself, Zoe Millar and Jules Marshall, two freelance drama facilitators and current volunteers at the City Gateway Women's Project. It takes place every wednesday and will run for 8 weeks.

James Linforth, Partner at international law firm Denton Wilde Sapte LLP, reflects on the voluntary work his team does and how, in particular, their partnership with City Gateway is impacting the local community.

In the first external entry to our 10 year Blog Vic Grimes, Director for Apprenticeships at the LSC, weighs up the real benefits apprenticeships have to offer, with a little help from Sir Alan Sugar.

With The Apprentice TV show well underway again, it seems like a good opportunity to look at the real life apprenticeships on offer.

As part of our 10 Year Blog we'll be publishing case studies of those who've come through our projects in the past 10 years - written by them and telling their stories in their own words.

Here Josh Silverman, who graduated from our apprenticeship course, talks about the journey from the streets of Tower Hamlets to the Reebok Gym at Canary Wharf where he now works:

City Gateway is delighted to announce the forthcoming launch of its '10 Year Blog' which will officially begin on the 20th April 2009 with new posts added, from a real variety of commentators, every week for three months.

Blog entry by Jerry Daykin, Marketing Manager at City Gateway

Whilst the headlines these days are grabbed by multi billion pound bailouts of the banking system there’s a growing view in politics that a more ground up approach might actually be the best route out of the credit crunch.

Speaking at the Voice 09 conference, the Conservative party leader said Britain needed to open up its training system to third sector alternatives and social enterprises so that standards can be raised: