Overall Winner

Leap Confronting Conflict  

Supporting young mentors and mediators

Leap Confronting Conflict supports and trains over 1,300 young volunteers who mentor fellow young people involved in gangs and violence through its PeerLink project.

It started in 1991, when Leap noticed a small number of young people were involved in conflict resolution in pockets across the country, but found they were largely isolated and that the work was poorly supported locally.

In 2002 Leap formed the Young Mediators Network which quickly grew to 300 members and led to the development of the larger PeerLink project.

 

 

The project tries to be youth-led as much as possible and delivers ongoing support and training to young volunteers in schools and communities.

Now there is a network of over 1,300 young people dedicated to preventing or reducing conflict in the lives of their peers.

A steering group of around 30 to 40 young people across three regions meet regularly to review the project and plan events around the country. In 2008 they gave over 4,000 hours of voluntary time.

They help deliver and plan large-scale national events such as conferences, residential events and the PeerLink awards, a recognition of the mentors.

PeerLink also provides training to young people and provide learning resources to schools and youth centres.

Myrtle Finley, a PeerLink award winner from Lesbian and Gay Youth Manchester, says: “I was just so pleased to see our very challenging but rewarding work being recognized and to know LGBT Youth’s contributions to society were being celebrated in their own right.”

Mrs Jennifer Rogers
Chief executive
Wells House (Unit 7)
5-7 Wells Terrace
Finsbury Park
London N4 3JU
020 7561 3700
www.leapconfrontingconflict.org.uk
Reg no: 10272376

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