New year, new school: City Year London starts service in Shacklewell Primary School, Hackney
On 10 January 2011 a new team of City Year London corps members started serving in our sixth partner school, Shacklewell Primary School. City Year London now has three partner schools in Hackney.
Fifteen new corps members joined us after the winter holidays, with ten forming the Power team at Shacklewell and the rest joining our existing school teams. (more…)
Calling London’s 18-25s to help transform children’s lives in Tottenham
8 November, 2011Young people are being urged to join one of London’s most dynamic ‘start-up’ charities – City Year London – to help transform the aspirations and life chances of children in Tottenham.
City Year London is expanding by developing a partnership with a Tottenham-based school. We are looking for inspirational young people to join our team to help children make the right choices and inspire them to develop a love of learning. Read More »
Private Equity Foundation launch powerful ‘Luke’s World’ film
Sadly, it is still the case in Britain – as in lots of countries all over the world – that if you are born into poverty, you are more likely to die in poverty. We all know about the “cycle of deprivation” in which people get trapped in circumstances that they find impossible to escape.
At the Private Equity Foundation and City Year London we believe young people can help transform the lives of children like Luke. Read More »
City Year London features in Every Child Update
City Year is built on the belief that young people can change the world.
We are convinced of this ideal because we see it happening everyday in the inner London schools we work with.
We believe that through hardwork, passion and a commitment to community spirit, young people can breakdown social barriers and have a transformative effect on children’s behaviour and academic progress.
Our model is very simple. Read More »
City Year London CEO responds to ICM poll on young ‘animals’
3 November, 2011
A new Barnardo’s poll discovers that 49% of UK population agree that children today are beginning to behave like animals.
Commenting on the poll, our Chief Executive of City Year London, Sophie Livingstone, said:
“This paints a depressing picture of the divide between young people and adults. From our experience, there are thousands of positive young people that want to serve their community and engage in projects such as City Year London, despite all the challenges they face growing up today. We all need to work together to support young people who want to break down these negative stereotypes and who are working hard in difficult circumstances to fulfil their potential.”
New research features City Year London case study
13 September, 2011
The independent think tank, the Centre for Social Justice, today published research into school exclusions called No Excuses: A Review of Educational Exclusion. The report features a City Year London case study showing how our corps member volunteers are supporting children by being positive role models, mentors and helping children being ‘ready to learn’. Read More »
City Year London Graduation 2010/11
6 July, 2011
On 30 June we celebrated the graduation of our 2010/11 corps at the British Museum in an event sponsored by Barclays Capital. City year’s corps members have spent over 65,000 hours volunteering to support children, schools and communities across London, and they have worked with more than 2,000 children in classrooms, playgrounds and after school clubs. Read More »
Summer Fete 2011
6 June, 2011
With every service day our focus is always supporting and enriching the schools and the communities in which we live and work. As we approach the end of our first year journey we wanted to celebrate our successes and bring together the families, teachers and staff across all six schools for the first City Year Summer Fete. Read More »
