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Press Coverage

Below are just a selection of the press articles written about City Gateway recently - if you're a journalist looking to write about City Gateway please visit the press release section of our news pages, or contact anne.macdonald@citygateway.org.uk

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.

Apprenticeships are helping school-leavers without skills

East London Advertiser, March 2009

CHARITY workers helping school-leavers in London’s East End who don’t have skills or jobs to go to have signed up deals with City firms to take on apprentices.

City Gateway, a charity which celebrates its 10th anniversary, has managed to reduce the numbers of jobless school-leavers in the deprived Tower Hamlets district from 15 out of every hundred to under seven in its first decade.

Ten years of high achievement...

East End Life, 23rd March 2009

Andy Burnham, secretary of state for media, culture and sport, attended the 10th anniversary celebration for City Gateway, the charity provides training for local young people.

Hundreds of people attended the tenth anniversary celebratoins of a charity that provides training, skills and opportunities for women and young people in Tower Hamlets.

Tasty enterprise offers jobs for the girls

East End Life, 23rd March 2009

A NEW catering enterprise was launched at the City Gateway celebrations.

Based in Tower Hamlets, Flavour Gateway has been developed by the charity's Enterprise Hub. It is a social enterprise providing training and employment opportunities and high quality catering.

Menus will reflect the local area, with dishes ranging from South Asian specialties to traditional British cuisine.

Flavour Gateway will also be opening a community cafe at its premises in Poplar.

Charity marks 10th birthday with all-star showcase

The Wharf Newspaper, 19th March 2008

ITS been 10 years since City Gateway started putting down roots in Tower Hamlets.

And the charity celebrated its first decade with a showcase event in Canary Wharf last Tuesday.

City Gateway was set up by local business people to help develop skills among disadvantaged residents of the borough.

Its annual showcase featured an appearance from secretary of state for media, culture and sport Andy Burnham, financial secretary to the Treasury Stephen Timms and Canary Wharf Group's Howard Dawber.

Charity's Birthday Knees-Up

East London Advertiser, 19th March 2008

A CHARITY which helps people develop skills for work celebrated its tenth birthday in style.

City Gateway launched its new catering company at the bash (below) at the East Wintergarden which was attended by guests including the Secretary of State for Media, Culture & Sport Andy Burnham, the Financial Secretary of the Treasury Stephen Timms and Howard Dawber from Canary Wharf Group, who all made speeches praising the charity.

Serving The Community With Style

Alan Craig's Blog, March 2009

Last night I attended the 10th anniversary celebrations of City Gateway a Tower Hamlets-based charity that works with deprived and disengaged youth and women with low aspirations and low language abilities, bringing them skills, motivation and ambition. ‘Ten Years of Bringing Hope to Tower Hamlets’ was the theme of the event.

All The World's A Stage

John Plummer, Third Sector, February 2009

Actor Sir Ian McKellen encouraged young people in east London to use Shakespeare to develop their creativity, at an event organised by training and mentoring charity City Gateway to help launch the Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company.

Actor tries his hand at Hip-Hop

BBC London News, 18th February 2009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7898203.stm

Cameron's Praise For Docklands Project

East London Advertiser, February 2009

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