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For ten years our team has strived to work in partnership both with other community organisations and with the local business community. Our emphasis on this comes from a simple realisation that the issues affecting Tower Hamlets are too great for any single organisation to tackle but that together we can start to make a real impact, not only on individuals but on the community as a whole.
Having been founded purposefully to link the skills of professionals into local needs, corporate support was vital to our work long before corporate social responsibility became as commonplace as it is today. Several of our projects have been directly funded by company giving and all of our work has benefited from pro bono support through volunteering, consulting, business development and other donations. Many of our greatest success stories have only been made possible by partnerships with the business community both in Canary Wharf and the City.
Our development has seen us partner with a range of community organisations both in Tower Hamlets and increasingly, as part of our efforts to share best practice and experience, across the whole of London. By working together we ensure that individuals get the best possible help and not just a generic solution that might not meet their needs. As well as connecting through referrals at the start and end of our progression chain we have built partnership support into the heart of all our programmes. Much of our success would have been impossible without it.
Jerry Daykin, Marketing Manager
"The apprenticeship scheme is without doubt the most successful and worthwhile link we have developed with our local community and we are delighted with the whole experience. The attitude of the individual involved has been first rate so much so that he has become an integral member of the team. I would highly recommend other company’s to seriously consider the scheme both from a community spirited point of view and from a commercial perspective."
Ian Mahoney, Reebok Gym
"It’s been great working with City Gateway, I feel comfortable referring people and receiving referrals. I’m very satisfied with the courses you offer, find working with the team easy and think the relationship is mutually beneficial."
Tom Jones, Connexions