Youth workers on City Gateway’s (www.citygateway.org.uk) training courses, aimed at disengaged young people in Tower Hamlets, estimate that more than 70% of their trainees smoke, well above the 30% national average. The charity is partnering up with stop-smoking charity Quit (www.quit.org.uk) to tackle the problem in a way that promotes all round health for the young people involved.

Working together at Poplar HARCA’s Limehouse Youth Centre the two organisations are offering free street dance courses to young people, the twist (or should that be the body pop?) is that they’re also offered complementary advice on how to give up smoking and improve other aspects of their health.

The courses are free to take part in and are running on Monday nights, 8pm to 9pm, at the youth centre on Limehouse Causeway, 2 minutes from Westferry DLR (E14 8BN), initially until the 9th March.

For more information on these (or other Quit dance classes) contact Ed Newman - e.newman@quit.org.uk.

-ENDS-

Notes for Press:
City Gateway looks to connect with local women & disadvantaged young people, and runs programmes which engage them, train them and provide them with the skills and opportunities they need to enter the workplace. It run a women's project, a youth centre, a youth training facility and a social enterprise hub - offering disadvantaged individuals everything from community events & drop-in youth clubs through to apprenticeship schemes and the chance to develop their own business ideas.


jerry@citygateway.org.uk
www.citygateway.org.uk