“I GET to go home at night and feel like I have made a difference and know I have helped somebody.

“I enjoy all aspects of the job. I enjoy the sense of achievement of helping a family or someone to overcome something and make an effective change,” says Steve Leach, team leader and acting centre manager of The Relationships Centre.

Steve started at The Gateway, Sankey Street, charity as a volunteer in 2005 and has never looked back.

A typical week for Steve involves applying for funding for the charity, dealing with referrals from the police about young people who have run away and managing the organisation’s Talk Don’t Walk project and What’s Up, which is based in Halton.

Talk Don’t Walk aims to reduce the risk of a young person becoming a runaway, or preventing those who have run away from continuing to do so.

Steve said: “Most young people want to be happy.

“The young people that don’t want to be happy are the ones to be concerned about.

“There are many issues as to why people run away.

“It is our role to support the whole family and establish why they run away and tackle problems.”

Steve speaks to the individuals at their schools.

His work also involves giving presentations in assemblies about the services offered by the charity and providing training for other professionals, including the police.

Steve delivers sessions for the perpetrators of domestic violence as well as the victims.

“It is my role to find out the triggers, where the behaviours have come from.

“For the most part the men have an understanding of their behaviour and are willing to change.”

The acting centre manager also designates time to ensuring his colleagues well-being.

He is working towards the charity’s main campaign of moving to an academy, which will see all the services located in one central base.

If you want to make a donation to help the centre, call them on 246910.