Our MissionXLP stands for ‘The eXceL Project’. In 1996, in response to a stabbing in a school playground, the school’s headmaster invited Patrick Regan OBE, a local youth worker at the time, to come into the school, work with their students and teachers, and help with difficult behavioural issues. After 22 years running XLP, Patrick left to set up the charity, Kintsugi Hope and Brighter Days, which helps to improve mental wellbeing.
XLP now operates in nine inner-city boroughs around London, and the City of London, working with over 4,000 young people each year through education, mentoring, employability, community youth work, sports and the arts. We fight for the young people that fly beneath the radar. Those who have been written off and ruled out; whose hope for the future is waning. We see the young people that others forget. Not only do we see their struggle and their circumstances, but we see their potential. In them, we see talent, we see skill, we see courage. |
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Journey of Change
We think of young person's journey through our projects in terms of four distinct stages: TRUST - BELIEVE - CHANGE - CONTRIBUTE
For those who we work with long-term, our hope would be that the journey could be described like this:
For those who we work with long-term, our hope would be that the journey could be described like this:
