We're very pleased to announce that our translation agency, which we're calling 'Speaking Your Language', has launched - and our interpreters are already out working with clients. As you may...
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Opening up about domestic violence
We know that around 10% of the women our Pregnancy Outreach Workers Service works with are, or have recently been, experiencing domestic violence (DV). For many women, becoming pregnant means that...
Creating cooking mentors to help new mums
We reckon our POWs could help new mums even more if they were able to show them how to cook a few quick and easy things. So we're training our staff to do just this. Gateway regularly works with...
Birmingham gets ready for Pop Up Talent
Pop Up Talent is a brand new, exciting, youth-led concept, aimed at tackling the unacceptably high levels of youth unemployment in key areas across the country. We're very pleased that Gateway will...
Gateway’s “skills escalator” takes Farzana to the top
We were thrilled to find out this week that two of our Pregnancy Outreach Workers have been accepted to begin degree courses in Nursing. For both Lynette and Farzana this has been a long term...
Supporting Birmingham’s B&B families
PLEASE NOTE: this story is from 2013 and the Temporary Accommodation Support Service has now closed. If you are affected by the issues in this story, please click here to see a list of links and...
Join our Tiny Knit club
We are knitting (or crocheting) - Our lovely staff are busy knitting squares to put together to make blankets for some of our new moms. If you want to join in you can Knit a 13cm x 13cm square - or...
A first step into a career in care
Gateway has always been about helping people overcome barriers, whether that is to work, to learning or to good health. We have never been interested in quick fixes for long-term issues. We are...
The importance of investing in maternal mental health
Our staff support pregnant women with complex social factors but why are the POWs needed? Simply put...our clients are vulnerable, but not vulnerable enough to get statutory support. An NSPCC...






