join slack what is a leaper?

we're a community
that supports anyone
who wants to work
differently.

Join Us.

Why do we
exist?

Work is changing - we have more options than ever before of how we work, where and when we work.

When you step away from the traditional structures of the 9-5, there's a gap in the support you get - no career development, no emotional support, and often no way to build trust with a team.

We're here to try and offer each other that support - to offer a community of people who understand the unique challenges we face, and just be there.

We're mostly an online slack group where non-judgemental conversation takes place, but we're also creating products and tools to help fill the gaps created by the new ways of work.

We also work with organisations who want to better support their people, especially ad-hoc teams and external talent.

Come and say hello.

Am I a
Leaper?

We define a Leaper as anyone who is making an active change to the way they work.

Work shouldn't be a passive journey where you take what is offered, but rather something you aim to actively design.

That might be a small change in how you work during your current role (flexible working, remote working, new job, new team); it might be a huge change in what you do for work (startups, SME owners, self-employed and freelancers) - and everything between.

You might be at the start of your journey and need advice, you might have already made change and want to share advice - or you might be in the middle of your journey, and just need reassurance.

If you see yourself in this definition, or want to help those who do - you're a Leaper.

some of the
ways we help

Community

Join our slack group, the active heart of our community.

Book: How you doing?

We've published a guide to looking after yourself when working for yourself.

Huru

Our project dedicated to supporting the mental health of independent workers.

Manual of Me

The first product from Leapers - a tool to help others work better with you.

Little Wins

A daily activity to help you reflect upon how much you've achieved today, and celebrate it with others.

Welcome

A tool to welcome freelancers to your site. Onboarding has never been so welcoming. Get people off to the best possible start.

Friends

We're building a network of like-minded groups and organisations who share our ambitions to create a better supported future of work. Meet our friends.

Organisations

We work with organisations who want to better support their external, ad-hoc and flexible workers. Contact us to have a chat about how we can work together.

recent content

opinion

the five foundations of freelancing

Designing how you want to work requires thinking about the foundations for being able to work, and doing good work. Not just finding the work.

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conversation
from the
community

#theweeklyquestion

How was your start to the year?

Every week we ask #theweeklyquestion - designed to prompt and provoke conversation, and look at topics which you might not have even thought about.

This is #theweeklyquestion for Feb 1, 2019 - but you can scroll back and read all the previous ones in Slack.

#askanything

Can I back out of this contract?

#askanything is the space where no question is too stupid - it can be the first time for everything, so we share our wisdom and experience between ourselves. It's also the channel which inspires our podcast, to share the challenges our community face.

#brainfood

We're featured in Courier Weekly This week's courier weekly talked about Leapers' mission.

#brainfood is the inspiration, interesting and just down right useful content that we've found and post, all around topics related to our conversation.

We also post this regularly to our twitter feed, and anyone can post things they've found.

medium

When is it time to switch off? It can be incredibly hard to know when you've done 'enough' as a freelancer.

We also regularly share content via our Medium site, which aims to be a repository of conversations which have been written up in some way.

You can join the conversation over there too, if perhaps Slack isn't for you - or subscribe to our upcoming podcast, as another way of exploring the topics and themes we cover.