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

Press Release From Moorhouse Consulting

Event date:  12-14 June 2009

Title: London consultants hold special two-day event for charity

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.

Iain Duncan Smith, chairman of the Centre for Social Justice, opens the debate with on what can be done to make the voluntary sector more effective and impactful with his own experiences of the subject.

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.

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell MP highlights the efforts being made to ensure the 2012 Olympics bring more than great sport to the East End of London.

As you look across London you can see the impact of the Olympics on the East End through its’ rapidly changing skyline as venues like the Stadium and the Aquatics centre take shape. 

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."

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.

HSS Hire’s Marketing Director, Fiona Perrin, discusses why they often get involved with the third sector.

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.