Leap stands for the leap of creativity, the leap into the unknown and the leap of change that we all have to make in confronting conflict.

Leap Confronting Conflict is a UK specialist in youth and conflict.

Leap is an organisation which aims to promote understanding of the causes and consequences of youth conflict; to share skills in handling and transforming conflict; to prevent escalation of everyday conflict into violence.

We are:

• A national youth organisation
• A registered charity
• A limited company (by guarantee)
• An LSC registered adult training provider
• An academy of youth and conflict

And our ‘Training and Consultancy for Organisations’ operates as a social enterprise

The main areas of charitable activity are:

• The provision of structured training projects for young people that enable them to manage conflict positively and contribute in their communities.
• The delivery of training and consultancy to adult practitioners and youth organisations to increase their confidence and skills in working with youth and conflict.
• Design and dissemination of publications, training courses, resource packs and manuals created from proprietary action research.

Leap works with young people aged 11-25, with a focus on the 13 to 21 year age group.

The organisation aims to promote understanding of the causes and consequences of youth conflict; to share skills in handling and transforming conflict; to prevent escalation of everyday conflict into violence.

Leap works across the spectrum of conflict activity and offers interventions from universal education and prevention work to more focused projects aimed at changing behaviours in target groups.

Young people who are experiencing disadvantage and exclusion are prioritised for places on the targeted projects and we actively seek to work with communities and schools suffering from youth conflict, tensions and crime.

The work is delivered through community and school based projects and always in local partnerships. Leap has three regional bases and over 40 specialist trainers.

Our core beliefs are:

• Conflict is inevitable in the lives of young people.
• Managed creatively it can be a force for personal development
• All young people have potential to contribute positively in their own community.
• We know conflict has to be understood and explored.
• We know projects have to be trialled. Thoroughly.
• We know young people are capable of profound change.
• We know the best people to deal with conflict are those involved in it.
• We know that outcomes and impact count
• We know theories and frameworks have to come from experience.
• We know learning should be shared, not kept to ourselves.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Take a Leap.

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