Help! Each other over everything

Hi everyone

I'm on a journey to help educate and redirect young under privileged people who maybe getting involved in crime and street gangs by using my old negatives as a platform to motivate and inspire them to do better. I really was bad but now I'm enlightened enough to be able to shape a future for myself that I can empower young people to help them not to make the same mistakes I have made or even enter along that rocky path!

As you can see by my CV I have been resilient and determined as one can be to change my life from a criminal to a legitimate author. I published my autobiography myself under my own publishing company and have several other books by other aspiring authors on the way too. It is a true testimony the new me. My book is available on amazon (paper back and kindle) Apple iBook world wide, in selected WH Smith's stores and will be in Waterstones 30 days from now. I have worked really hard to change my life around and turn my past negatives into positives and would like to be able to help others to do the same. I go around to local schools, colleges and universities to explain to young people that crime really doesn't pay by using my life as a cautionary tale, I volunteer most of my week to do this and get sense of pride and purpose in doing so. I am committed and passionate about helping the youth of today to not repeat the same mistakes I have made. I feel because it is a life I have lived I am more relatable to them and find that on my talks the pupils really engage with me and enquire about information they wouldn't be able to source unless you had walked that path. I am one step away from a full circle all I need is mainstream publicity to make that circle complete. I would like help to raise money so am able to get a public ad campaign on ITV, Sky and Channel 4. A ad campaign for national TV costs £10,000. With the ad campaign it will generate more sales for my book and provide me with the revenue to be able to fund a play about my life. This play is intended to enhance young people from underprivileged back grounds who have a passion for the arts but haven't been able to peruse their dreams because of circumstance or chance. I will also be able to fund start up programmes for anyone looking to change their life and think Out Of The Box.

I would like you to help me to help the youth of today and anyone who's lost their way so they don't have to enter along the same path i have, by giving them the opportunity to do positive and inspiring things with their lives. So if you could donate anything to my cause even if it's 50p I would be very grateful and very thankful .

Lots of love

Leroy Smith x

Author
Out Of The Box