A youth charity that made redundancies as part of a restructure last year has now merged into the Coram Group of children’s charities.
Leap Confronting Conflict, which had reported an operating deficit for the last four years, will now be called Coram Leap Confronting Conflict as part of the group.
Nine Leap staff members have transferred as part of the merger, including chief executive Jo Broadwood, who will be the new organisation’s managing director.
The new organisation will aim to support young people to be equipped with the skills to manage conflict and help reduce violence in their communities.
It will also work with fellow group member Coram Life Education in its work developing personal, social, health and economic education resources for schools.
Broadwood said: “"The trustees and leadership of Leap have put young people first and made a bold and strategic decision. In this fractious and divided world we want the skills of conflict navigation to be available to all young people.
"Coram's knowledge, infrastructure and networks will provide us with a platform to scale our reach and impact. Something which would not have been available to us if we had remained as a stand alone charity."
“Being part of the Coram group will enable us together to reach many more young people and realise our pledge to the next generation.”
Recent restructure
Broadwood announced Leap’s staff cuts last year, weeks after becoming CEO, saying that a challenging fundraising climate had led to the charity’s decision to restructure.
“It very quickly became apparent after joining the team at Leap that we urgently needed to restructure in order to strengthen our delivery team and to cut costs,” she wrote at the time.
“This means that today we’re losing some exceptional and talented members of the Leap staff team.
“I draw some comfort from the knowledge that although this has been a painful decision, it’s been an absolutely necessary one.
“As all of those across the civil society sector will be aware, it’s become much tougher to raise funds.
“And Leap, like many others, has been affected by this.”
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