BBC London News, 18th February 2009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7898203.stm

City Gateway, a Tower Hamlets charity working with disengaged and low-skilled young people which celebrated it’s 10th Anniversary earlier this month, has this week launched the first of a range of new partnerships aimed at having an even bigger impact on the area in the next 10 years.

The charity’s work has already seen NEET (not in education, employment or training) young people figures for the Borough fall from a shocking 15% down to 6.7%. By working closely with City firms the charity aims to bring their skills and resources to bare on the local community.

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.

28 students from the City Gateway charity will celebrate their graduation from the relaunched Export Course at Denton Wilde Sapte LLP's London office on 13 February. City Gateway, which mentors and trains young people in the borough of Tower Hamlets, and international law firm Denton Wilde Sapte have been working together on a number of projects for two years.

Legendary Shakespearian actor, Sir Ian McKellan and MOBO award-winning Hip Hop artist Akala will launch the Hip Hop Shakespeare Company at City Gateway youth club on 17 February, 6pm.  

It's a question that's been on all our minds for a while... what is City Gateway?

Here a group from our Export Media course do their best to answer the question from their own experiences coming through our training. Check it out on Youtube here.

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