
Bethan Hill, Community Newswire, 3rd March 2010
A new City Gateway ‘Perspectives’ project, launched at the Canary Wharf Shopping Centre this week, will challenge over 1 million people to rethink what Tower Hamlets really means to them. The project challenges them to sum up their feelings on just a Post-It note and is run by charity City Gateway, which has been linking the local community into the opportunities and resources found at the Wharf for over 10 years.
Tariq Tahir, The Sunday Times, 28th February 2010
Executives in the Square Mile can not only put something back into the community but also profit from giving time to charity.
Every six weeks Nigel Bromley leaves his City office to spend time with a local charity. Though it is a short walk for the chief executive of Gemserv, a consultancy, he might as well be going to a different planet.
Last night teams from 8 Wharf or City firms took each other on in East London charity City Gateway‟s new community shield "Futsal‟ competition – the final saw bankers from Credit Suisse taking on the regulators from the Financial Services Authority with the bank eventually getting a 2-0 victory.
John Hill, The Wharf, 9th November 2009
John Hill, The Wharf Newspaper, 5th November 2009
Jobs: Plaudits for businesses which demonstrate their social responsibility.
LEADING politicians gave their backing to a scheme designed to put young people into work.
John Hyde, Docklands Newspaper, 4th November 2009
Big businesses have been told they have a duty to support disadvantaged youngsters into their top positions.
East London charity City Gateway brought together more than 40 firms in Downing Street last week to spell out their responsibilities to the local community.
They heard how the charity has set up mentoring and apprenticeship schemes with some of Canary Wharf's biggest institutions.