Leap looks back at 2015
'Leap Confronting Conflict' releases its 2015 impact report
Leap Confronting Conflict, the national youth charity founded and supported by Friends, has published its 2015 impact report.
The charity reported that last year it ‘not only worked directly with 1,027 young people, offering them intensive training and support, but also trained 521 of the adults who work with them, like teachers, youth workers and prison officers’.
Highlights in 2015 included the addition of four graduates to its pool of thirty-eight trainers and an initiative that helped 426 young people from five schools in Lambeth to understand peer mediation and conflict resolution.
Collaboration with other organisations was also an important theme in 2015. Leap worked with Fight for Peace and Worth Unlimited to deliver three-day leadership training courses for young people. The charity also began working with Lambeth Youth Offending Service last year in providing conflict resolution training for sixteen young people over six weeks.
Mark Spelman, chair, and Thomas Lawson, chief executive, said the young people they work with had inspired them through ‘their spirit and courage’.
