Welcome to City Gateway's Website.
We provide training and events for young people and women in the Borough of Tower Hamlets working in partnership with a range of other organisations and firms.
Looking to get qualifications or build confidence? Young People Click Here, Women Click Here to find out what we offer.
We provide training and events for young people and women in the Borough of Tower Hamlets working in partnership with a range of other organisations and firms.
Looking to get qualifications or build confidence? Young People Click Here, Women Click Here to find out what we offer.
Enterprises
Since 2006 our social enterprise hub, now based at the Davenant Youth Centre of Excellence, has been offering training, creating jobs, developing business sustainability and driving economic regeneration in Tower Hamlets. The enterprises offer fully professional commercial services on a par with mainstream providers but bring to the table an added social impact and a way for firms to support the local economy.
Our enterprises start in our 'incubator' as separately funded, social projects with an aim to serve and empower local people and create experience and employment opportunities. Service users get trained, mentored and supported, learning to apply best practices from our business development framework to real world situations. Eventually we aim to develop all our enterprises into sustainable commercial ventures and develop them through the start-up business phase to a point where they can continue long after funding runs out.
Our team has now taken the skills and knowledge gained in establishing our own enterprises and made them available to other organisations and individuals through our Business Support Service. The team offers training, business plan writing, fund raising support, consultancy and a range of other services to help other enterprises and charities develop.
Yvette Elkana, Enteprise Director
"I see a really important role for social enterprises, like City Gateway in Tower Hamlets, which takes young adults from local estates and trains them in the skills our economy will need in the future like web design. These social enterprises have the local knowledge, the human touch, and sensitive understanding of the complex and interconnected problems of educational failure and worklessness and I want to see more City Gateways come in, take this recession by the scruff of the neck and help get people into work."
David Cameron MP, Leader of the Opposition
