Gateway Family Services
Changing Lives, Changing Services.
We work to improve health, develop skills and opportunities and fight inequalities. We change the way public services work.
About Us
Gateway Family Services is a Community Interest Company. It was established in 2006 and operates in Birmingham and across the West Midlands.
A non-profit organisation, we use any surplus to invest in the education, employment, health and wellbeing of the communities we work with.
We understand how health and social care systems work. We work in partnership with Primary Care Trusts, the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority, Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Partnership among others, to support their strategic decisions whilst empowering people in the community to break social, cultural and economic barriers that can cause deprivation.
Our team is led by Chief Executive, Vicki Fitzgerald who has worked for the past 11 years on regeneration in Birmingham, with a particular focus on the development of people in local communities.
Our Board is Chaired by Pat Hackett, who has worked in the NHS for 24 years, and who has been involved with Gateway from the start.
We have been chosen as a Flagship Social Enterprise by Social Enterprise West Midlands - the development agency for this sector in the region. The only enterprise in Birmingham to be selected.
We have been awarded the Social Enterprise Mark for our work.
Aims, Objectives and Values
Strategic aims We aim to make a difference to the experience and outcomes of those people whose relationship with health and social care services is consistently poor. We will raise the level... Read more
Vicki Fitzgerald, Chief Executive
Vicki has worked for the past 15 years on regeneration in Birmingham, with a particular focus on the development of people in local communities. Vicki led the development of new qualifications to... Read more
Lisa Cruice, Programme Manager
Lisa will shortly join Gateway as Programme Manager for the Lighten Up service, her role will involve managing the team to deliver Lighten Up across Birmingham and Maternal Lighten Up for expectant... Read more
Gary Hillyer, Programme Manager
Gary Hillyer e.mail Gary.hillyer@gatewayfs.org Gary Hillyer is the Manager for the Employment Access, Skills and Training (EAST) department. His role involves managing the learning department and its quality assurance across the region.... Read more
Danny Dhadda, Programme Manager
E.mail daninder.dhadda@gatewayfs.org Danny joined the team in April 2010 as Programme Manager supporting the Pregnancy Outreach Worker Service (POWS). Danny has since moved to managing the Health Trainer Service. His previous work... Read more
Justine Ennis, Programme Manager
Justine Ennis e.mail: justine.ennis@gatewayfs.org I am a Programme Manager in the Pregnancy Outreach Worker Service. Before working at Gateway Family Services I worked in a mother and baby unit. I am... Read more
Michelle Bluck, Programme Manager
e.mail: michelle.bluck@gatewayfs.org Michelle’s role consists of supporting the Pregnancy Outreach Workers (POWs), to reflect the needs of the communities, that are most at risk of infant deaths.She manages the Sparkbrook and Springfield... Read more
Joanne Harper, Operations Manager
Email address: joanne.harper@gatewayfs.org Jo is responsible for overseeing the day to day running of all our services, so this includes all that goes on in both health and wellbeing as well as... Read more
Katherine Hewitt – Deputy Chief Executive
Katherine Hewitt e-mail katherine.hewitt@gatewayfs.org Katherine’s focus is on generating new business and ensuring our current services continue to be recommissioned. Before joining Gateway in 2011 she worked in local government in the... Read more