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The 10 Year Blog

The 10 Year Blog is a collaborative blog project giving a wide variety of people the chance to voice their opinions and suggestions on the issues affecting inner City London.

We'll be asking how partnerships & corporate social responsibility can bridge gaps in the community, how volunteering is impacting individuals' lives & businesses, what the real issues affecting East London are, if the third sector can evolve to meet new needs, how the 2012 Olympics can build a lasting legacy, whether social enterprises do offer the answers some hope they do and ultimately what we should be aiming to achieve in the next 10 years?

For more information on the background to the project and how you can get involved read the article here. The comments and opinions included in this blog represent those of the individual's involved and do not represent City Gateway's official opinion - we encourage challenging entries from every side of the story.

48 Hours later... Bikes, runners, painters, gardeners and a lot of sausages!

Anna Chatfield, Moorhouse Consulting talks about the special fundraising event held by the team of management consultants last  month…
 

Community event at the Women's Project  The 'Bike Runners' return

BBC Blast - Hip Hop Shakespeare Competition

Ellie Fry, from BBC Blast, introduces the competition they're running together with the Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company that City Gateway helped launch earlier in the year.

Iain Duncan Smith - A Freer Voluntary Sector

Iain Duncan Smith, chairman of the Centre for Social Justice, opens the debate with on what can be done to make the voluntary sector more effective and impactful with his own experiences of the subject.

A History of Verse

In the first video entry to our 10 Year Blog, the Hip-Hop Shakespeare company present a decidedly East End take on A History of Verse.

Coming out of a series of Hip-Hop projects the company has run at City Gateway's Limehouse Youth Centre, the video is an example of a bold new way of getting young people engaged with the history and culture around them. Previous workshops have included one session in which Shakesperean actor Sir Ian McKellen spat lyrics against Ms Dynamite and Akala.

Tessa Jowell - An Olympic Legacy for the East End

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell MP highlights the efforts being made to ensure the 2012 Olympics bring more than great sport to the East End of London.

As you look across London you can see the impact of the Olympics on the East End through its’ rapidly changing skyline as venues like the Stadium and the Aquatics centre take shape. 

Why It's Nice to be Nice

HSS Hire’s Marketing Director, Fiona Perrin, discusses why they often get involved with the third sector.

Case Study: Shaal Karim

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.

Helping Women Find New Confidence

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.

A Law Firm Engaging With The Community Around It

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.

You Don't Have To Be Alan Sugar To See The Value Of Apprenticeships

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.

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