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Apprentice Pushes for a Fresh Start at Reebok Gym

1st May 2009, John Hill, The Wharf

Former DJ Josh Silverman is pushing for a fresh start at Reebok Gym after enduring tragedy and injury in the last few years.

The 21-year-old became a fitness coach at the Canada Square gym last month through an apprenticeship with Limehouse charity City Gateway.

Cafe Launch has a new Community Flavour

City Gateway Women’s project today launched a unique new cafe project in Poplar, East London. Part of the Well London initiative, it targets the local community and offers a range of healthy options at subsidised, affordable prices.

10 Year Blog Project To Tackle East End's Problems

23 April 2009, Lorraine Connolly, Community Newswire

Rapping The Bard

12 April 2009, East London Advertiser

TEENAGERS will be rapping the works of Shakespeare this week following Hollywood star Sir Ian McKellen's visit earlier this year.

Shakespeare's Back To Connect With East End Kids This Easter

9th April 2009, Lorraine Connolly, Community Newswire

Social Enterprise Magazine Tries out a New Flavour

07 April 2009, Social Enterprise Magazine & Newsletter

Rachel Claydon is manager at Flavour Gateway Catering and incubator manager at City Gateway Enterprise Hub:

Shakespeare's Back to Connect This Easter

With the arrival of the Easter holidays the Hip-Hop Shakespeare master class, which launched with Sir Ian McKellen and MOBO award-winner Akala earlier this year, is coming back to City Gateway’s youth centre in the East End.

Role play used to help immigrant women integrate

06 April 2009, East London Advertiser
FREE English language classes are being run for Bangladeshi women in London’s deprived East End to help them integrate.

The classes are organised by City Gateway with role play to create basic situations to learn simple phrases.

Around four-out-of-10 people in Tower Hamlets are Bangladeshi, the charity points out.

English Language Class Launched For Women

By Laura Wileman, Community Newswire

EDUCATION Language Tower Hamlets, 06 Apr 2009 - 09:30

A charity has launched a free English language class for women with little or no English skills in the Tower Hamlets area.

City Gateway's Women's Project gives women the chance to role play basic situations and learn simple phrases. The group said the idea was inspired by the large number of women looking to fill the limited places on their long term ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) courses.

Creative English Class gets the Borough's Women Talking

City Gateway Women's Project, inspired by the number of women looking to fill the limited places on their long term ESOL courses, this week launched a Creative English class aimed at getting local women talking.

Language barriers remain one of the most difficult to overcome obstacles for the multicultural population of Tower Hamlets and those who do not speak English often struggle to confidently make use of basic services such as their GP or library, even if these centers offer translators to them.

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