06 April 2009, East London Advertiser
FREE English language classes are being run for Bangladeshi women in London’s deprived East End to help them integrate.

The classes are organised by City Gateway with role play to create basic situations to learn simple phrases.

Around four-out-of-10 people in Tower Hamlets are Bangladeshi, the charity points out.

By Laura Wileman, Community Newswire

EDUCATION Language Tower Hamlets, 06 Apr 2009 - 09:30

A charity has launched a free English language class for women with little or no English skills in the Tower Hamlets area.

City Gateway's Women's Project gives women the chance to role play basic situations and learn simple phrases. The group said the idea was inspired by the large number of women looking to fill the limited places on their long term ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) courses.

East London Advertiser, March 2009

CHARITY workers helping school-leavers in London’s East End who don’t have skills or jobs to go to have signed up deals with City firms to take on apprentices.

City Gateway, a charity which celebrates its 10th anniversary, has managed to reduce the numbers of jobless school-leavers in the deprived Tower Hamlets district from 15 out of every hundred to under seven in its first decade.

BBC London News, 18th February 2009

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

East End Life, 23rd March 2009

Andy Burnham, secretary of state for media, culture and sport, attended the 10th anniversary celebration for City Gateway, the charity provides training for local young people.

Hundreds of people attended the tenth anniversary celebratoins of a charity that provides training, skills and opportunities for women and young people in Tower Hamlets.

East End Life, 23rd March 2009

A NEW catering enterprise was launched at the City Gateway celebrations.

Based in Tower Hamlets, Flavour Gateway has been developed by the charity's Enterprise Hub. It is a social enterprise providing training and employment opportunities and high quality catering.

Menus will reflect the local area, with dishes ranging from South Asian specialties to traditional British cuisine.

Flavour Gateway will also be opening a community cafe at its premises in Poplar.

The Wharf Newspaper, 19th March 2008

ITS been 10 years since City Gateway started putting down roots in Tower Hamlets.

And the charity celebrated its first decade with a showcase event in Canary Wharf last Tuesday.

City Gateway was set up by local business people to help develop skills among disadvantaged residents of the borough.

Its annual showcase featured an appearance from secretary of state for media, culture and sport Andy Burnham, financial secretary to the Treasury Stephen Timms and Canary Wharf Group's Howard Dawber.

East London Advertiser, 19th March 2008

A CHARITY which helps people develop skills for work celebrated its tenth birthday in style.

City Gateway launched its new catering company at the bash (below) at the East Wintergarden which was attended by guests including the Secretary of State for Media, Culture & Sport Andy Burnham, the Financial Secretary of the Treasury Stephen Timms and Howard Dawber from Canary Wharf Group, who all made speeches praising the charity.

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.

East London Advertiser, February 2009