City Gateway
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| location = The Pavilion, Import Building, 2 Clove Crescent, E14 2BE, London
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| area_served = Greater London
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| services = Youth work
| focus = Employment, women's project
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| revenue = £3.1 million (2011)
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| homepage =https://citygateway.org.uk
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City Gateway is a charity that provides training for disadvantaged young people in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets{{cite news|url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/career_and_jobs/article7043535.ece |title=The City slickers sharing talent |newspaper=The Times |date=28 February 2010 |accessdate=26 September 2012 }}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} and other boroughs of Greater London.
Services
City Gateway works with disadvantaged individuals through community events, drop-in youth clubs and apprenticeship schemes, and gives them the chance to develop their own business ideas.
It runs women’s projects, youth training, a youth centre and a social enterprise hub.
It is one of the most popular youth projects in the area, and has successfully trained many young people who were formerly not in employment, education or training ("NEETs").{{cite news|title=In east London – a model which could transform society|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/08/city-gateway-project-centre|accessdate=27 September 2012|newspaper=New Statesman|date=14 August 2008|author=Alyssa McDonald}} City Gateway's support for young people was described as "incredible" following several awards at the ERDF and ESF London Awards 2011.{{cite web|title=ESF project inspires Evening Standard apprenticeships campaign|url=http://www.esf-works.com/resources/news/324-esf-project-inspires-evening-standard-apprenticeships-campaign-|work=ESF Works|publisher=European Social Fund|accessdate=27 September 2012|date=26 September 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122053548/http://www.esf-works.com/resources/news/324-esf-project-inspires-evening-standard-apprenticeships-campaign-|archive-date=22 January 2013|url-status=dead}}
{{As of|2012}} it employs 120 people, and has about 60 corporate partners who provide apprenticeships, work experience or mentors.
History
City Gateway was established by a group of people who worked in the City of London and wanted to support the local community. In 2003 it was a small organisation on the point of being wound up when Eddie Stride, a local man who had recently graduated from Cambridge University, joined as a youth outreach worker. Having secured approval from the trustees to keep it going for a year, he raised £40,000 from two corporate sponsors, and began training 15 "NEETs" in job-seeking skills. He was shortly promoted to CEO; by 2008 he had developed the organisation into one with an annual turnover of £1 million, reaching £4.5 million by 2012.{{cite news|title=Human dynamo who turns young tearaways into valued City workers|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/work/human-dynamo-who-turns-young-tearaways-into-valued-city-workers-8167448.html?origin=internalSearch|accessdate=26 September 2012|newspaper=Evening Standard|date=24 September 2012|author=David Cohen}}
In July 2012 City Gateway won the Prime Minister's Big Society Award.{{cite web|title=Tower Hamlets charity City Gateway wins Prime Ministers Big Society Award|url=http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/city-gateway-big-society-award/|work=number10.gov.uk|date=19 July 2012|accessdate=26 September 2012}}
The Evening Standard selected City Gateway as the partner in its "Ladder for London" campaign, launched in September 2012, asking commercial companies to take on more apprentices.{{cite news|title=Ladder for London: The Evening Standard's campaign to help the young and unemployed|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/work/ladder-for-london-the-evening-standards-campaign-to-help-the-young-and-unemployed-8167606.html|accessdate=26 September 2012|newspaper=Evening Standard|date=24 September 2012|author=David Cohen}}{{cite news|title=Evening Standard partners with London charity to increase apprenticeships|url=http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/news/content/13434/standard_partners_with_london_charity_to_increase_apprenticeships|accessdate=26 September 2012|newspaper=Civil Society|date=25 September 2012|author=Kirsty Weakley}}
References
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External links
- {{EW charity |1078360}}
{{Schools and colleges in Tower Hamlets}}
{{Universities and colleges in London}}
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Category:Further education colleges in London
Category:Charities based in London
Category:Youth charities based in the United Kingdom