Help us send a group of Nottingham skateboarders to Skate Malmo Street 2018 that best represent the diversity and culture of our community
Skateboarding is incredibly good at opening doors for young people to travel, make worldwide connections and meet people from all sorts of backgrounds: however, since the crash in 2007, young people's incomes have fallen sharply - especially in Nottingham, which has the lowest income in the UK according to the Office for National Statistics. Skate Malmo Street 2018 is an amazing competition that takes place between the 17th and 19th of August, and encourages teams of skateboarders from all over the world to explore Malmo - a very similar city to Nottingham - to help make the city a more vibrant, youthful and inclusive place.
Skate Nottingham will be delivering a free, open competition on the 28th of July at the small, award-winning community-designed skate facility at King Edward Park, Nottingham, within one of the most disadvantaged wards in the UK. As prizes for the winners of this comp, we will select a group of 3-4 young people and adults, plus a filmer, to go to Malmo - not on the basis of whether they can afford to travel and stay in another country, but on the basis of who skated the hardest on the day, who has the best style, and who best represents our diverse, weird and wonderful city. As many skaters in Nottingham come from lower income backgrounds - which shows the power of skateboarding to connect communities and raise aspirations - it also means that many young people, and adults, could never realistically afford to go to Southern Sweden to this incredible event.
With your kind help, we would like to raise a relatively small amount of money (£800), which will cover flights for the 3-4 local skaters and filmer plus hostel accommodation in Malmo from the 17th-19th of August - to enable anyone to go, regardless of whether or not they have a job that pays OK, or parents who are able to fund them. We already have a bit of funding from our own activities this year to cover some of the total costs - but its important that we are able to fund 100% of each of the winners' travel and accommodation costs - otherwise we risk the young men and women who most earned the opportunity not being able to take it up.
Taking opportunities to travel and pursue what you love and excel at shouldn't be restricted just to those few who are luck enough to be able to afford it - and with your help we can make sure Nottingham can send a team who truly represent our community and that helps build links between Nottingham and Malmo - the world's premier skate-friendly city.
This project successfully funded on 2nd August 2018