News from Family Gateway
Helping Children and Families Living in Poverty in the North-East of England
Family Gateway calls for charity donations as stats show that poverty in the North-East is on the rise. 1 in 4 children are reportedly living in poverty in Britain, and a recent report published by the Institute of Fiscal Studies suggest that things are only going to...
Donate Gifts and Trees to Help Light Up Christmas for Disadvantaged Families
Family Gateway is appealing to the local community to help light up Christmas for children and low income families living in poverty in the North East. Most charities need help at Christmas, and Family Gateway is no exception. The charity is urgently asking for...
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...
New 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...
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...
Job Opportunity: Research and Operations Manager (P/T)
Job opportunity Poverty and Cancer: Community based action-research project Local award winning child poverty charity Family Gateway (formerly Tyne Gateway Trust) has teamed up with national charity Macmillan Cancer Support to launch a new community-based project to...
The local alternative to giving to charity shops – donate directly to families in need?
Do you look at the increasing number of charity shops in your local high street and wonder how local people benefit? The presence of charity shops on the high street is increasing, and in some cases they almost take over the street, so you could be led to believe that...
Why do we talk about Child Poverty when children aren’t poor?
I’ve always found it very frustrating that we talk about reducing ‘child poverty’ which is clearly a very emotive term. How on earth can children be poor in the conventional sense of the word? They aren’t poor they are simply living with the dire consequences of their...
What’s in a name?
We have recently changed our charity name and re-branded which is a massive step for a relatively small organisation and as you can imagine the process was exhausting in terms of energy, creative thinking and compromise. But why bother? What’s in a name? Everyone...
Tyne Gateway wins National Award
Tyne Gateway Trust has recently been awarded the Charity Times Charity of the Year 2016 (income of less than £1m) award at a glittering ceremony in London. Having won the Charity Times Best New Charity Award back in 2012, the staff team decided to apply again in a...