27th April 2009 for event on Thursday 30th April
MP Sees Barclays’ Volunteers Paint The Town Orange
Local MP Jim Fitzpatrick will this week visit City Gateway’s Limehouse Youth Centre in Tower Hamlets. 18 volunteers from Barclays Commercial Bank will be taking over the centre for the day in a decoration project which sees them brightening up the reception areas, opening up a new studio space and clearing up an outside area.

City Gateway is a charity which links big businesses into community projects and itself runs a Women's Project, Youth Centre, Youth Training & Apprenticeships and a Social Enterprise Hub. A new initiative at their Women's Project is giving women with little or no English skills the chance to role play basic situations and learn simple phrases - later in the month volunteers from State Street Bank will help them launch a new community cafe at the site where individuals will get further opportunities to have practice conversations.

City Gateway, a Tower Hamlets charity working with disengaged and low-skilled young people which celebrated it’s 10th Anniversary earlier this month, has this week launched the first of a range of new partnerships aimed at having an even bigger impact on the area in the next 10 years.

The charity’s work has already seen NEET (not in education, employment or training) young people figures for the Borough fall from a shocking 15% down to 6.7%. By working closely with City firms the charity aims to bring their skills and resources to bare on the local community.

An exciting and innovative new catering enterprise called Flavour Gateway is being launched on Tuesday 10 March at the annual showcase event for local charity, City Gateway.  Targeting organisations across East London with their high quality and professional catering service, Flavour Gateway’s menus will be reflecting the multi-cultural tastes of the area with dishes ranging from South Asian specialities to traditional British cuisine.