Our Vision

XLP’s mission statement is: ‘To engage in long-term relationships that empower young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to complete their education, avoid anti-social behaviour and ultimately become independent and confident contributors within their communities.’

XLP stands for ‘The eXceL Project’. In 1996, in response to a stabbing in a school playground, the school’s headmaster asked a local church-based youth worker to come into the school, work with their students and teachers and help with difficult behavioural issues.

XLP now operates across nine inner-city boroughs around London, working with 3,000 young people each year through education, mentoring, sport and the arts. Below you can see our theory of change, as well as the journey on which we hope to take each of our young people.

Journey of Change

At XLP we think of the journey of a young person 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: