As a community focussed School and a social responsibility node, LEAP builds and continually works on strengthening broad-based local and international partnerships. The positive experience of LEAP in providing a values-based holistic educational experience for young people from the poorest areas is built on partnerships across a broad front, most especially on partnerships between:
- The disadvantaged communities served by LEAP (including public schools in those communities). LEAP works closely with community leaders to strengthen initiatives and projects working in these communities, often serving as a bridge between these communities and more privileged ones. LEAP provides extra lessons on community schools and works with community school teachers through mentoring and resource sharing programmes.
- Foundations, corporates, international friends and schools, and private donors, who are the core providers of funding to LEAP. LEAP operates in a totally transparent and fully accountable manner in all its interactions with funding and sharing partners.
- Independent Schools Association of South Africa (ISASA), with whom LEAP is registered, and its schools such as Diocesan College (Bishops) and Redhill School . LEAP is an integral part of the ISASA Maths and English programme and a forerunner in the teacher training programme that is focussed on training new teachers (especially in the Maths and Science fields). Bishops and Redhill have set the benchmark as twinning schools through a generous sharing of facilities with LEAP, firm support in the set up of the first LEAP schools in Cape Town and Johannesburg respectively, and constant working to create opportunities for sharing and interacting across many areas of school life.
- The national and provincial education departments. The provincial education departments have been firm supporters of LEAP and its objectives, and provide a subsidy to LEAP as a low-fee charging Independent School. LEAP has been actively engaging the national department, specifically around how LEAP may contribute to the Dinaledi framework.
- From the outset of the Historic Schools Restoration Project , John Gilmour, Executive Director of LEAP, has been an active member of the advisory committee and has committed to being directly involved with the Historic Schools Restoration Project for the duration of 2009 and 2010.
