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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.

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.

Case Study: Josh Silverman

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:

Can The Third Sector Get Us Out of a Tight Squeeze?

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:

The 10 Year Blog - Launching 20th April

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.

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