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Consultant News.com - Two-Day Charity Event

The London based ‘APM Project Management Company of the Year’ Moorhouse Consulting is holding a special event this weekend to raise vital funds for two major charities.

What a delightful Sunday Launch!

This Sunday sees the launch of two new City Gateway projects... with the help of a team of volunteers from Moorhouse Consulting!

Gateway Media - May eNews

 

May eNews - Volunteers Special

 

Women's Trip to the Tower

Last week a group of women from City Gateway's Women's Project went on a trip to the Tower of London in partnership with Goldman Sachs.

Charity Calls for 2012 Legacy to Reach Everyone

Wednesday May 20th 2009, John Hyde, The Docklands Newspaper

A leading Docklands charity boss has called on Olympic chiefs to deliver the community legacy he believes Canary Wharf has not yet provided.

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell last week re-iterated her desire to see East London benefit long-term from the 2012 Games.

Eddie Stride, chief executive of Limehouse-based charity City Gateway, said lessons had to be learned from the mistakes of the past.

Relax and Tuck in at New Cafe

11-17th May 2009, Jessica Odubayo, East End Life

Social enterprise offers tasty fresh food, a place to socialise and training opportunities.

A new community cafe is serving Poplar with healthy, fresh and affordable food, training opportunities and space for people to socialise.

Cafe Relax, run by social enterprise Flavour Gateway Catering [part of City Gateway's social enterprise hub], employs three staff and eight trainees who are learning skills in cooking, customer service and finance.

Fresh brush-up by Barclays

7th May 2009, The Wharf Newspaper

BARCLAYS volunteers slapped a "fresh and funky" new look on the City Gateway Youth Centre.

Centre manager Jo Read praised the "incredible difference" made to the Limehouse centre, after 15 volunteers repainted the entrance hall, chill-out areas and one of the training rooms.

Jo said: "It's not dark and gloomy when you come in but fresh and funky.

"It'll go a long way towards transforming the atmosphere here at the centre."

Bankers get their Hands Dirty

6th May 2009, The Docklands Newspaper

Barclays volunteers got messy as they gave Limehouse's City Gateway Youth Centre a spring makeover.

Fifteen people helped to repaint areas of the clubhouse as well as litter-picking on the football pitch.

The centre helps young people who have not benefited from the area's wider economic development to access employment and training.

Centre manager Jo Read said: "It's an incredible difference, it's not dark and gloomy when you come in but fresh and funky.

Thanks to Barclays, the Writing's on the Wall for NEET Young People

15 volunteers from Barclays at Canary Wharf came down to the City Gateway Youth Centre, in Tower Hamlets, yesterday and painted the centre in a radical new colour scheme with four neon shades representing the four stages of progression the charity offers disengaged young people.

The simple model of Connect (orange), Engage (purple), Train (light blue) and Work (green) helps NEET (not in education, employment or training) young people take small steps from where they are at to the point where they are able to take on apprenticeships and ultimataly permenant work.

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