Originating in the US, in Boston, in 1988, the City Year model has seen thousands of young people across 20 US cities and more recently in Johannesburg, South Africa, undertake voluntary work in local schools and communities.
Currently recruiting volunteers to its three-year pilot programme in the capital, City Year London is set to hit schools and communities in the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Islington.
Bringing with her both the business acumen she inherited from her time as deputy chief executive of the Private Equity Foundation, and armed with experience from frontline charity work, including managing public relations at the Foyer Federation, Livingstone is raring to get the project off the ground. "I wasn't intending to leave the Private Equity Foundation, but I completely fell in love with City Year," she says on her job move last November.
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