Travel Experiences That Set You Apart.

The Leap combines adventure, friendship and real-world experience to help young people build confidence, transferable skills and meaningful evidence for university applications, CVs and future careers.

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Why The Leap Matters

Today, universities and employers are increasingly looking for young people who can demonstrate leadership, teamwork, communication skills, resilience and initiative, not just talk about them.

How We Help

The Leap combines adventure with real-world work experience, giving young people tangible evidence of transferable skills for UCAS applications, CVs and future careers.

Challenge

Every Leap is built around three core elements: challenge, culture and contribution, turning travel into something far more meaningful.

Culture

Travel deeper by connecting with people, traditions and communities, gaining a richer understanding of the world around you.

Contribution

Work on meaningful conservation and community projects that create real impact while developing real-world experience and transferable skills.

Gap year students play tug of war with the locals in Cambodia with The Leap's life-changing travel adventures

For Gappers: The Smart Start To A Gap Year

Beaches and bars? Easy.

But if you want a gap year that adds real value, unforgettable experiences and friendships for life, The Leap is your launchpad.

Our 4-week programmes combine adventure, contribution and real-world experience, helping young people build confidence, independence and meaningful evidence for CVs, university applications and future careers.

Along the way come sunsets, safaris, road trips, shared challenges and the kind of experiences that make gap years so special.

Then, with greater confidence, maturity and direction, students can continue their travels independently.

Come back with more than memories, come back with stories, skills and experiences that genuinely set you apart.

For Schools & Under 18s: Adventure With  Academic Value

The Leap combines adventure with meaningful real-world experience, helping students build confidence, resilience and transferable skills through challenge, culture and contribution.

From coral reef restoration and community projects to safaris, team adventures and cultural immersion, students grow through exciting shared experiences far beyond the classroom.

Alongside unforgettable memories and friendships, students gain tangible evidence for university applications and future careers, with the opportunity to earn an International Volunteering Diploma worth 16 UCAS points.

A teenage girl on her gap year in Kenya dancing with kids in the local community.

For Midlifers: Rediscovery & Renewal

Midlife is your moment—not a crisis, but a crossroads. The Leap offers purposeful adventures that reignite your spark, fuel clarity, and connect you to something bigger through meaningful, off-grid projects. Step out of the routine, and come back recharged.

Two solo travellers on a group trip to Peru, sat at a view point laughing together.
Solo travellers on a group trip to Jordan, sat in a pick-up truck on a scenic tour of the desert.

For Tailored Experiences: Something Different, Together

Whether you're a group of friends, a club, or a company team, why not make your next adventure count?

We design one-of-a-kind journeys with purpose - combining shared challenges, off-grid escapes, and meaningful projects that create real connection and unforgettable memories.

three camels in Diani, Kenya, walking along a white sand beach.
A safari land cruiser approaching a herd of Zebra in Tsavo National Park, Kenya.
An adult green turtle underwater in Watamu Marine Park, Kenya
A man playing the drums in a traditional ceremony in Peru, surrounded by women dresses in Bright pink traditional wear.
the gap year, solo travelling team's view of the Lost City in Colombia
Three Ladies standing on the edge of the Lake of Gold in Peru. Wearing traditional cultural clothing.
The view of a waterfall in thick jungle in La Fortuna, Costa Rica, on our Costa Rica gap year programme.
Traditional fishing boats in Sri Lanka, a photo from the point of view of one of our Solo travellers on a group trip
an old man sat at a market in Sri Lanka, selling fresh veg
A dramatic photo of a chapel in Peru, with snow covered mountains behind. Taken from the point of view of one of our Gap Year teenagers on a group tour.
two young girls and their llama in Peru wIth dramatic valleys and hills behind
A photo of the Salt fields in Peru. Taken by a solo traveller on her gap year with The Leap.

Every journey leaves a mark. Read about the experiences that changed lives.

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This trip has left me with a group of life long friends from around the world, experiences that will affect me forever and skills to help me through life. Everyday was a new adventure, from building hatcheries for turtle eggs to teaching English at a local school to playing volleyball with the Costa Rican coast guards to watching a turtle lay eggs. I would highly recommend this trip.
jessica - Costa Rica GAp
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Five Stars to Milly and her team for organising a wholly wholesome and colourful time in Sri Lanka for our Midlife Leap. The blend of work and play suited me very well. Each bit of volunteering taught me a great deal about myself and my own strengths: it turns out I can do more and be more than I had realised. Thank you.
Emily - Sri Lanka Midlife
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Our personalised itinerary had everything we asked for and more; we wanted our pupils to really immerse themselves in the local community and complete acts of service which would be genuinely meaningful and the Leap, who partnered with Ocean’s Alive more than delivered. I cannot recommend the Leap and the Kenya experience more highly.  They have given us memories to cherish for a lifetime.
Genevieve Ford - Kenya School Leap
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This isn’t ordinary travel. It’s challenge, culture, and contribution, woven into journeys that push you further, connect you deeper, and leave something better behind.

Our Bestselling Leaps

Costa Rica Gap Year Leap

Community development & turtle conservation.

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Kenya Under 18 Leap

Combine academic value with outside classrooom learning.

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Peru Midlife LEAP

Embrace ancient culture, community & challenge.

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