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
Find out about all of our upcoming skateboard coaching sessions and other events!
We’re at the Midlands Makers market!
Sun 20th September, 11:00 - 18:00 at the Sneinton Avenues
Coinciding with Art Fest, the Midlands Makers crew are in Nottingham and hosting loads of creatives selling their wares on stalls in the Sneinton Avenues. We’ll be there with our merch: art prints, framed photography, pins, skatepark patches, postcards, T-shirts, and more!
You can also find out more about our upcoming ‘Skateboarding in the City III’ festival, which will be the following week!
Workshops at People’s Hall
6 events throughout September
Introducing People’s Hall! A new (old) venue in the heart of the city, People’s Hall is an 18th century townhouse - with a 19th century public hall extension - used for a variety of community & educational purposes throughout the years. Now set to be revamped, Nottingham Historic Building Trust are working with organisations such as Skate Nottingham to bring community back to People’s Hall!
We’re pleased to present a series of 6 creative, construction, and video-based workshops, rooted in skateboarding and free to attend.
Our different collaborators & workshop leaders will explore themes around skate-friendly cities, design, urban planning, making fun skate edits, and construction of both concrete and wooden skate obstacles!
These will be great experience for anyone aspiring to study or work within these areas. All ages are welcome, with a guidance age of 11+ for the two construction workshops.
Thursday 18th September, 16:00 - 18:00
Designing a new community skate obstacle
Sketch ideas for a new wooden skate obstacle to be built & skated during our ‘Skateboarding in the City III’ festival at the end of the month.
Sunday 21st September, 10:00 - 16:00
Filming a serious stupid skate edit
Storyboard a film, create stupid characters, and film yourselves skating Nottingham spots! This workshop will also cross over with a free skateboard coaching session at Tram Line Spot, which all aged 7+ are able to join.
Workshop suitable for all ages, young children should be accompanied by parents/carers.
Thursday 25th September, 14:00 - 18:00
Building a community skate obstacle
Construct the wooden obstacle that was designed in the previous workshop, and give it a test skate outside!
Suitable for ages 11+.
People’s Hall is situated on Heathcoat Street, Hockley, NG1 3AA, just down from Jamcafé & Ice Nine. Workshop programme kindly funded by Forever Notts & The National Lottery Community Fund, with support from the Nottingham Historic Building Trust.
Free skateboard coaching session
Sun 21st September, 12:00 - 13:30, Tram Line Spot
We’re hosting another one-off skateboard coaching session at TLS this Sunday, in tandem with a video-making workshop we’re doing at People’s Hall. First, join us at People’s Hall at 10:00 to watch some videos and learn about filming. Then we’ll head down to Tram Line Spot for the session at 12:00, working together do some filming whilst also learning to skate, and then afterwards head back to People’s Hall to review our clips!
These sessions & workshops are part of a National Lottery and Notts Forever funded programme, that lead right up to our skate festival.
Skateboards & helmets are available to borrow, simply book a free ticket below. The video-making workshop is suitable for all ages (young children to be accompanied by adults), the skateboard coaching session is for anyone aged 7+, due to the terms of our insurance.
Skateboarding in the City III festival
25th - 28th September
We’re stoked to be hosting a new ‘Skateboarding in the City’ festival over 4 days at multiple venues around Nottingham city centre!
It’s been a tough first half of the year for Notts, so we’re stoked to put together a programme and invite guests to celebrate the fact that Nottingham is still one of the best places to be a skateboarder in the UK.
Skate Makers’ Market
Saturday 27th September, 12:00 - 17:00 at People’s Hall
As part of our 4-day ‘Skateboarding in the City III’ festival, we’re hosting a makers’ market with a whole bunch of talented UK creatives coming to Nottingham to share their work and connect with our scene.
Stop by People’s Hall (Heathcoat Street, NG1 3AA, near Ice Nine/Jamcafé) on the Saturday of the festival to see what’s on offer, for one day only!
Nottingham skatepark patches
Out now!
We’ve designed 3 embroidered patches depicting Nottingham’s Lady Bay, King Eddie’s, and Arnold Bowls skateparks - ready to be sewn onto your bag, jacket, hat, suitcase, or just collected as a souvenir!
Inspired by the American tradition of National Park patches - cloth badges that became souvenirs in the post-WWII boom of tourism around parks that were protected solely for leisure, recreation, and the enjoyment of people.
Rep your local Nottingham skatepark or start a collection of them all… which Notts skatepark should we release next?
Limited numbers available!
Joshua Dale skatepark consultation report
Our published survey results regarding the future development of the Colwick skatepark
Find out what everyone’s views are from our recent in-person consultation event and online survey:
“Nottingham’s forbidden skaters are repaving the city’s landscape”
Read the article via Huck Magazine
Skate Nottingham co-founder Chris Lawton and creative programmes director Tom Quigley were recently interviewed for a Huck Magazine article about Skate Nottingham, our city, its struggles and achievements.
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!