Alan Craig's Blog, March 2009

Last night I attended the 10th anniversary celebrations of City Gateway a Tower Hamlets-based charity that works with deprived and disengaged youth and women with low aspirations and low language abilities, bringing them skills, motivation and ambition. ‘Ten Years of Bringing Hope to Tower Hamlets’ was the theme of the event.

Blog entry by Jerry Daykin, Marketing Manager at City Gateway

Whilst the headlines these days are grabbed by multi billion pound bailouts of the banking system there’s a growing view in politics that a more ground up approach might actually be the best route out of the credit crunch.

Speaking at the Voice 09 conference, the Conservative party leader said Britain needed to open up its training system to third sector alternatives and social enterprises so that standards can be raised:

Last night Tower Hamlets charity City Gateway marked 10 years of working to bring hope to Tower Hamlets by partnering with City Firms through an event hosted by the Canary Wharf Group, please find attached the original event's press release.

650 guests, from corporate supporters, community partners and some of our service user's families, signed up to join us in the evening of March 10th to celebrate our 10th Anniversary in style. We packed out the East Wintergarden, kindly provided by Canary Wharf Group, with a crowd three times bigger than our last Annual Showcase.

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On the evening of March 10th at the East Wintergarden, Canary Wharf, local charity City Gateway will host its annual showcase, this year being extra special as it marks a decade of work with disengaged young people and women in the borough of Tower Hamlets.

See the team in action in November here.

Check out our final video eNews of 2008 here.

Catch up with February's eNews video here.

Response Source, January 2009