Engage
ENGAGE is a short capacity building course, aimed at engaging & motivating young people aged 15-18. The course offers a mixture of job preparation, life skills, literacy, numeracy and various tasters for accredited qualifications.
110
Trainees on the City Gateway Engage course in 2007
71%
Trainees receive at least one unit of a level 1 qualification
We aim to tap into the interests that young people already have and broaden their horizons to help them see the opportunities that might be available to them in the future. We want them to realise that they can achieve regardless of what they have done in the past. This year has seen us expanding the course across London through partnerships with agencies in other Boroughs.
2007 was the first year in which over 100 trainees took the Engage course.
"Engage is better than school and easier. At school I made life difficult, my peers were afraid of me; I now wish I could change that! Doing Engage is helping me to think about what I would like to do with my future, as without a future I don't have a life."
Aktar Hussain
