Transforming people & places through skateboarding.
Skate Nottingham is a non-profit place-making, sports development and alternative education organisation rooted in Nottingham’s globally significant skateboarding community. We use skateboarding as a tool to unlock learning and creativity, with an aim to raise the profile of skateboarding as a positive, healthy and creative activity that contributes to Nottingham's social, cultural and economic development.
News & events
Stapleford skatepark consultation session
Saturday 17th May, 12:00 - 16:00
Pasture Road Recreation Ground, NG9 8GS
(Pegasus Youth Football Club car park)
See the first designs for the new Stapleford skatepark!
Join Skate Nottingham, Broxtowe Borough Council, and Canvas Spaces on Saturday 17th May for a pop-up skate coaching and consultation event, and share your thoughts on the designs for Stapleford's new skatepark coming to Pasture Road Recreation Ground this summer.
12:00 - 13:30: Free skateboard coaching (ages 7+)
13:30 - 16:00: Open skate session (all disciplines welcome!)
Since the summer of 2023, Broxtowe Borough Council and Stapleford Town Council have been working with local skatepark campaigners and non-profit community group Skate Nottingham to fundraise and plan for a new skatepark in Stapleford, following the removal of the ageing facility at Hickings Lane.
In November 2023, more than 200 local donors and supporters successfully crowdfunded over £12,000 towards the new skatepark, including match-funding from Sport England and donations from County Councillors. These funds provided match-funding in subsequent applications for larger capital funding sources for this skatepark.
This event is kindly funded by a grant from Sport England's 'Movement Fund', and follows a previous consultation session in November 2024. We will be set up with movable ramps and obstacles in the car park of the Pegasus Youth Football Club, off Peatfield Road, with a marquee in case of any bad weather. This is adjacent to the site where the new skatepark will be built. See you there!
Joshua Dale skatepark consultation session
Saturday 24th May, 12:00 - 16:00
Rectory Playing Field, Colwick, NG4 2DW
Are you in favour of further redevelopment of some kind of skatepark space at the site of the former Joshua Dale skatepark in Colwick?
Join us at Rectory Playing Fields on Saturday 24th May to share your views, which Skate Nottingham will present back to Gedling Borough Council & Colwick Parish Council.
This is another important milestone in developing skateable spaces for Nottingham!
12:00 - 13:30: Free skate coaching (ages 7+)
13:30 - 16:00: Open skate session
12:00 - 16:00: Open consultation throughout
Following Skate Nottingham’s pilot ‘Skate and Regenerate’ workshop in February 2024, and the creation of the curbs for meanwhile use, we’re stoked to continue working with Gedling & Colwick to explore opportunities for a new Joshua Dale skatepark.
We encourage all skatepark users (inc. BMXers, skateboarders, quad/inline skaters, etc) and local residents to stop by, have a chat, share views & ideas, and stay for a skate!
This event is kindly funded by a grant from Forever Notts.
New spring sessions at Southwell skatepark!
From Saturday 26th April
Southwell skatepark, NG25 0LW
We have more free sessions at Southwell skatepark this spring, thanks to Friends of Southwell Parks & The Co-op Local Community Fund!
Join us for two more skateboard coaching sessions for all abilities and all ages 7+, followed by a Skate Hive women & girls’ session. Special extras include a Creative Club workshop and a skate jam - full times below:
Sat 26th April, 13:00 - 15:00. With Creative Club workshop from 15:00 - 17:00!
Sat 10th May, 13:00 - 15:00. Followed by the Southwell Slamma jam, 15:00 - 17:00!
Sat 31st May, 13:00 - 16:00 - Skate Hive women & girls' session
Skateboards & helmets available to borrow, simply book a free ticket below. If you have your own, no ticket needed - just turn up!
Forty Two 2011 - 2025
We wish Rob, Scotty & the Forty Two fam all the best as their doors close. See our Instagram for a few images and thoughts on how important places like Forty Two are for our city.
Here’s the huge group photo from the Forty Two send-off jam that Nay organised down at Sneinton Market - with the biggest turnout of any skate event in Notts in recent memory!
Photo: Tom Quigley.
Donate to get lids on kids!
Help fund new helmets and receive a free skateboard
£20 or more will help us invest in new equipment
Our free coaching sessions throughout the year allow up to 30 of our skateboards & helmets to be borrowed by participants of all ages at no cost, so that they are protected when learning to skateboard with us.
After many years of events, engaging around 1,000 unique individuals each year, we need to invest in a few more helmets, to replace some missing or broken ones, and to ensure we have a good range of sizes to fit kids, young people & adults.
We also have more skateboards than we need! Thanks to some kind donations of complete setups, we can give some away as a thankyou for those who can support our investment in helmets.
If you can make a donation of £20 or more through our old Crowdfunder campaign page, we will save a full complete skateboard setup* for up to 10 individuals to collect from our city centre office or an upcoming session.
100% of your donations will be invested in equipment, to be used for free by anyone joining our sessions!
6 skateboards still available
*While stocks last - we have put aside 10 complete skateboards to be given away. Your donation is not a purchase. Skateboards have had some minor use, we will be selecting the ones in best condition. Limited to one per donor. We will contact you via Crowdfunder/email to arrange collection.
Skate Nottingham T-shirts
Last few available!
New for 2024 - a range of premium Skate Nottingham photographic tees!
We’re stoked to release a limited number of tees, one black, one white - both featuring a different screenprinted photographic print, with handwritten details and Skate Nottingham logos.
Available for just £22 each, while stocks last! All profits help support our work for Nottingham skateboarding.
Road to Tram Line Spot
Watch our short documentary now!
This 16-minute documentary about the creation of Nottingham’s landmark, skate-friendly space, Tram Line Spot, was completed in 2023 by talented filmmaker and long-time Skate Nottingham collaborator, Georgianna Scurfield.
Now available online, this follows several international screenings, in which Skate Nottingham were invited to share the Tram Line Spot & wider Nottingham skateboarding story in cities such as Budweis, Czech Republic; Tampere, Finland; and Bordeaux, France; as well as a UK international premiere at the Mansfield Town Film Festival in the summer of 2024.
Watch the film, skate TLS, and be inspired about what you can do for your city!