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Family Gateway
Family Gateway is an award-winning North East charity that is committed to using local people to deliver enterprising community-led solutions to family and child poverty.
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What we do
We provide bespoke support to families with complex lives who need help to improve the life chances of their children and we help them design enterprising solutions to community problems.
How we do it
We employ local parents who have experienced the same or similar issues as those we support and we help families acknowledge, accept and address their underlying issues.
Where we do it
We work across North Tyneside, South Tyneside and parts of Northumberland in the areas of highest deprivation and where children’s life chances are lowest; in time we will move to new areas too.
Who supports us
We are lucky to be supported by a range of grant funders, commissioners, donors and local people who give their time to help us achieve our outcomes.
DISCOVER MORE ABOUT FAMILY GATEWAY
.
What we do
We provide bespoke support to families with complex lives who need help to improve the life chances of their children and we help them design enterprising solutions to community problems.
How we do it
We employ local parents who have experienced the same or similar issues as those we support and we help families acknowledge, accept and address their underlying issues.
Where we do it
We work across North Tyneside, South Tyneside and parts of Northumberland in the areas of highest deprivation and where children’s life chances are lowest; in time we will move to new areas too.
Who supports us
We are lucky to be supported by a range of grant funders, commissioners, donors and local people who give their time to help us achieve our outcomes.
HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT FAMILY GATEWAY
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HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT FAMILY GATEWAY
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Get involved
Make a difference in your community
Get started straight away by sharing news about Family Gateway on social media.
THE FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT FAMILY GATEWAY
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Our Social Impact
We have a solid evidence base for our work and are proud to have achieved the following:
%
of children supported have improved attendance and/or achievement
vulnerable families are supported by us every year – and that number is growing.
%
of the hardest to engage parents have moved into training or employment.
%
of children on a Child Protection Plan have been removed from it.
%
of families engage with us.
%
of parents and 95% of children report improvements in their lives.
parents take part in our accredited training and buddy groups each year.
previous service users are now employed by us.
NEWS ABOUT FAMILY GATEWAY
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The latest articles from the Family Gateway blog
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Family Gateway features in Professor Green BBC3 poverty documentary
We are thrilled to be able to share that we were invited to take part in a recent BBC Professor Green documentary ‘Living in Poverty’ which serves to highlight the growing concern over families who struggle to make ends meet because of a range of circumstances and...
read moreNew Premises
Finally and very importantly we are excited to announce that we are hoping to take over the management and running of the Howdon Community Centre with plans to develop it onto the Howdon Family and Community Enterprise Hub. We are very keen to hear from the people of...
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Moving into Northumberland
We are very excited to be ready to launch the extension of our successful improving Futures programme in Northumberland, funded by Big Lottery Reaching Communities. The programme will see us working with schools in South-east Northumberland to reach and support those...
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