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	<title>LEAP &#124; Local Employment Access Projects &#187; News</title>
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		<title>India Gary-Martin is the new Chair of LEAP</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 15:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ We are pleased to announce that India Gary-Martin has joined the LEAP Board as the new Chair of the charity.
India took over took over on 24th March 2010, replacing Steve McCoy, who stood down after being in office since the charity’s inception.
India’s background in Financial Services spans nearly twenty years and three continents; North America, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIG PUSH: in Aid of LEAP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 4th November 2009, LEAP held our very first charitable fundraiser, at the Waldorf Hilton Hotel. BIG PUSH was an event that aimed at raising further awareness about the work we do, as well as to generate funds so that we can continue helping those that are disadvantaged, unemployed, who are finding it difficult to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case Study: Abukar Awale</title>
		<link>http://leap.org.uk/?p=1455</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abukar Awale came to the UK, from Somalia, in 1997 as a young man full of energy wanting to learn and earn.  He was looking forward to a bright new life, but these hopes were dashed when he associated himself with the wrong people.  Abukar frequented a place where people took a drug called Khat, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case Study: Elizabeth Tommy</title>
		<link>http://leap.org.uk/?p=1405</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a stay at home mother, Elizabeth Tommy had been out of work for a number of years, but eventually made the decision to try and find a full time job.  She soon found that things had evolved from when she had worked previously and competition in the job market was steep, and she simply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case Study: Franchescia Byam</title>
		<link>http://leap.org.uk/?p=1397</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many ways, 19 year old Franchescia Byam is typical of the young people that LEAP access through its community activities.  Talented, bright and full of potential, Franchescia found herself caught up in a world that would have seen all that promise wasted, she was living a life where just getting through the day was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV star Kwame Kwei-Armah on why he supports LEAP</title>
		<link>http://leap.org.uk/?p=917</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kwame Kwei-Armah is well-known as an actor, writer and singer. He first came to prominence as paramedic Finlay Newton in ‘Casualty’ (from 1999) and for his outstanding performances on &#8216;Celebrity Fame&#8217; Academy&#8217;. He is a regular on ‘Newsnight Review’ and is a presenter of ‘the Culture Show’. Amongst many accolades, he won the Evening Standard&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News: Attitudinal training finally reaches the mainstream</title>
		<link>http://leap.org.uk/?p=694</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LEAP can feel a sense of quiet satisfaction, as a result of a report launched in February by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
The report, The Employability Challenge, was written in response to employer’s concerns about why, after years of discussion about employability skills, far too few candidates for recruitment have these skills.
It calls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News: LEAP win prestigious commission</title>
		<link>http://leap.org.uk/?p=710</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LEAP are proud to announce that we have won the tender to develop a new employability and career-planning training programme for the Scottish careers service.  LEAP will design and develop the brand new programme that will be delivered by Skills Development Scotland advisors and partners throughout the country.  The 10 module course will be created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News: LEAP in the news</title>
		<link>http://leap.org.uk/?p=286</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rod</dc:creator>
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		<title>News: Funding Urgently Needed</title>
		<link>http://leap.org.uk/?p=965</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With confusion surrounding a number of Government funding programmes for employment and skills, the economic crisis in Britain is having devastating consequences for long-term and ethnic-minority unemployed people asthe voluntary organisations that support them into employment, like LEAP, face closure due to lack of funding.
At a time when the jobless total of 2.1 million is [...]]]></description>
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