Congratulations to the 28 LEAP Companies who took part in the LEAP Merrion Centre Trade Fair on Saturday 8th February 2025. All the companies did a fantastic job and 10 judges were circulating to judge the Companies as part of the Marketing Compatition.

On the day Charles Newman, from TCS and The Merrion Centre also spoke to all the companies and he awarded The Merrion Centre trophy and some generous cash awards as follows.

1st place Boxful
2nd place Adorn
3rd place Darya and Relight

Congratualations to the 29 companies who made the LEAP Merrion Centre Christmas Trade Fair a resounding success.
Our thanks to The Merrion Cetre and to the Lady Mayoress of Leeds Cllr Abigail Marshall-Katong who presented the Awards and spoke to all the students.

1st place : Boxful
2nd place : Wrapify
3rd place : Copper Rise Design

Thank you also to all the judges who spent their Saturday scoring the Companies.

Today at the Merrion Centre in Leeds we celebrated young Entrepreneurs from across Yorkshire.
Congratulations on winning the centres prize.

1st place : TouckLink
2nd place : Kreate
3rd place : Kliklak

With 14 Judges also today all contributing to the overall Marketing competition which is just 1 of 16 categories.
Watch out for more information on this years Annual Awards.
Www.leapenterprise.co.uk

Congratulations to our overall winners Planet A

But also congratulations to all our winners in the other 14 categories too.

All photographs will be available via the Gallery and can be downloaded at anytime.

From the LEAP Board, we would like to say "thank you to all our Students, Teachers, Mentors and Sponsors for all your commitment and dedication to LEAP".

We look forward to working with your schools/Colleges again in September.

Have a great Summer term and summer holidays.
Donna @LEAP

We just want to thank you for all the time that you put into leap and allowing us to have this opportunity. We have truly enjoyed the experience and have learnt so many new skills that will be applied later on in life.

Thank you again,
Beyond Vintage

Unfortunately the Presentation Competition on 11 March had to be cancelled because of snow and ice problems. The Presentation Competition is still taking place - but via video.
Please film your 5 minute Presentation as a continuous live performance, with the Powerpoint visible, and send it to milesmount@yahoo.com via wetransfer.com [allowances will be made for missing team members and lighting conditions, as long as we can see the Powerpoint].

The new deadline is 5 pm on Saturday 18th March 2023.

Congratulations to all the LEAP Companies who exhibited at the Merrion Centre Valentine Trade Fair on February 4th 2023.

Thank you very much to all the judges for the Marketing Competition, and particularly to Christine Talbot [TV Presenter] and Darren Brookes [Merrion Centre] who judged the Best Company on the Day to be awarded the Merrion Centre trophy.

1st place : Green Lead : QEGS
2nd place |:The Giftery : Coop Academy Priesthorpe
3rd place : Inicio : Allerton High School

Thank you to all the students that attended the What's Next Seminar on Tuesday 17th January 2023.

If you want to review the contents of any of the seminars then go to the resources section of this website where the presentations have been uploaded.
https://www.leapenterprise.co.uk/presentations-january-2023

Congratulations to the 25 Companies who took part in the Merrion Centre Christmas Trade Fair.

The Merrion Centre judged the Companies on the day and Awarded the following prizes.

1st prize Sweet N' Treat
2nd prize Leaping Lobsters
3rd price Green Lead