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
Find out about all of our upcoming skateboard coaching sessions and other events!
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!
Special offer: 3 for £20 until Sun 27th July only!
Gedling Summer Skate 2025
6 free events from June - August
The Gedling Summer Skate is back for 2025! Get involved in a variety of different free events at skateparks around the borough of Gedling, hosted by Skate Nottingham and funded by Gedling Borough Council. For ages 7+.
Sat 21st June at Arnold Bowls, Arnot Hill Park, NG5 4HZ
12:00 - 14:00 & 14:30 - 16:30: Free skateboard coaching
Sun 6th July at Newstead skatepark, Newstead Village, NG15 0BU
13:00 - 15:00: Skate jam! “Out with the old, in with the Newstead”
An informal skate jam with best trick challenges, product & cash prizes!
Sat 12th July at Standhill skatepark, Carlton, NG4 1JS
11:30 - 14:00: Free skateboard coaching
14:00 - 15:00: Creative Club workshop
Sat 19th July at Standhill skatepark, Carlton, NG4 1JS
11:00 - 12:30: Free skateboard coaching
12:30 - 16:30: Skate and Regenerate ramp building & skatepark repair
Sat 2nd August at Jubilee Park skatepark, Burton Road, NG4 2QG
11:00 - 12:30: Free skateboard coaching
12:30 - 13:30: Skatepark design workshop
Skatepark consultation focussing on Lambley Lane skatepark throughout
Sun 17th August at Arnold Bowls, Arnot Hill Park, NG5 4HZ
13:00 - 15:00: Skate jam! Prizes & details to follow.
“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.
Adult skate coaching & Curb Club in Colwick
Sunday 27th July & Sunday 3rd August
Curb Club is back and this time it’s headed to the Joshua Dale skatepark in Colwick, for two weekends of low impact action and hanging out with mates.
Whether you already spend your Sunday afternoons at the service of the curb, or want to come hang out with new people - our aim is to bring adult skaters together in the outdoors for a chilled afternoon.
We’re also hosting an adult skate coaching session beforehand, for those who want to try something new, and build their confidence in a comfortable environment. Our trained coaches will be on hand, and skateboards & helmets are available to borrow. For anyone aged 18+.
11:00 - 12:30: Adult skateboard coaching session
12:30 - 16:00: Curb Club
This is kindly funded by a Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Mental Wellbeing small grant. A priority of this funding is addressing the challenges of mental health and social isolation amongst adult males and reducing the risk of suicide.
Book free tickets for the adult skateboard coaching session if you need to borrow a skateboard & helmet:
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:
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.
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.
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!