Leap Confronting Conflict

PEF Contribution

PEF is helping Leap to establish an education and training business to upskill other practitioners and create broader mainstream impact with young people

Introducing the Charity

Leap Confronting Conflict is a national voluntary youth organisation providing opportunities for young people and adults to explore creative approaches to conflicts in their lives.

Since 1987, Leap has been:

Raising awareness of conflicts facing young people in the community
Helping young people to find possible solutions to the issues they face
Training adults who work with young people to confront conflict

Each year about 2,400 young people and 500 adults participate directly in Leap’s programmes. Around 3,000 more young people are reached through network organisations and the professionals Leap has trained.

Changing lives

In January 2005 I was 17 years old and was homeless and penniless. Life wasn’t going to plan and was not treating me well at all. I was frustrated, hurt and bitter at the whole situation that I was in.

I visited Connexions to get some advice and that’s where I heard about Leap. I started the course in February and at the risk of sounding cheesy that’s when things started to change!

From getting so wound up and angry to managing my emotions. I started getting it together. I became a volunteer after I finished.

2 years on in January 2007 from when I first applied to do Quarrel shop and look how far I have come…I was 19 years old, I had become a Youth Development Worker for Leap Confronting Conflict, I had begun to earn a living doing what I love and I am helping young people who are going through what I went through 2 years previously. I’m trying to help them make a difference in their lives and see that there are so many more ways to deal with the madness that life throws at them and I am helping them make a change.