A first-of-its-kind survey just launched to explore how leaders from community-led skateboarding projects view skateboarding and the Olympic Games.
We are looking for people aged 18 or over who identify as leaders of grassroots and community-focused skate groups and organisations.
The purpose is to explore perspectives on how your work promotes equity, the freedom to play and skateboarding as a social good and the role the Olympic Games can play (including strengths, limitations and improvements that can be made).
The research is led by @goodwillinghunting , in partnership with Skateistan and the @sydney_uni . Head to the website (link in bio) to explore the survey and other ways (interviews and videos) you can volunteer to participate.
'It showed me what true feminist solidarity feels like.'
What happens when you center women and gender-diverse leaders in skateboarding? You don’t just fund projects, you build a movement.
From skatepark takeovers to systemic change, ROLL Models is breaking access barriers and redefining who belongs in skate spaces.
Check out our recent blog post celebrating six years of ROLL Models in Europe and the gender-just movement that’s reshaping skateboarding. Link in bio!
Photo: Women Skate the World
Another project which we absolutely love - Mamelodi Skate Club in South Africa.
Based in Mamelodi township, @mams_park links skate sessions with gardening, food security, and neighborhood clean-ups. Young people earn skateboard parts by spending time in the community garden, where they learn to grow nutritious food and care for the land.
This simple but powerful exchange connects skating with long-term sustainability and resilience.
Check them out and if you want to read more about how skateboarding can tie into climate justice work, check out our blog post - link in bio!
Check out our latest resource on the Goodpush Library 🛹📚
Skate Instruction Manual: Beginner to Advanced, created by Charl Jenson from Skateistan South Africa.
Link in bio!
In 2020, @skateistan and @women_win came together to support the feminist movement in social skateboarding in Europe. Six years and two successful cohorts later, we conducted a detailed evaluation of the program to take stock, see what we'd achieved, and what steps to take next.
ROLL Models 2020-2026:
🌍 Supported 86 leaders across 14 countries
💰 Distributed €204,000+ in seed funding
🤝 Strengthened 62 organizations creating safer, more inclusive spaces
📈 Helped launch 14 organizations that are still thriving today
ROLL Models has helped shift skateboarding culture - challenging who feels welcome in public spaces, building confidence in underrepresented skaters, and creating a resilient, peer-led network grounded in solidarity and gender justice.
🛹 What's next for ROLL Models?
In the years to come, we are very interested in going global with ROLL Models.
With social skateboarding growing around the world through more than 1000 projects in 115+ countries, we believe there is huge potential to expand the ROLL Models community beyond Europe.
Two regions where we see huge potential to support women-led skateboarding projects are Africa and South America. The regional focus of this model is particularly impactful because it helps ROLL Models to connect based on similar contexts and challenges.
If you’d like to support or collaborate on running the ROLL Models program in a new region, connect with us over the following email: [email protected]
📸: Nora Lou Handsley (@spaceinvaders_hamburg )
This week we've been gathering photos to include in the published results of the 2025 Annual Survey of Social Skate Projects Worldwide. 🛹
We couldn't help but share a few of them because we received so many beautiful photos from skate programs around the world!
Skate & Beyond are Skateistan's amazing partner in Gulu, Northern Uganda, empowering the local youth through skateboarding, education and creative activities. They run programs every day and in 2025 they reached an incredible 450 participants!
Keep up the amazing work @skatenbeyond ✨
The IOC’s new ban on trans women athletes is a step backwards for inclusion, human rights, and the future of sport.
This decision doesn’t make sport 'fairer’ or ‘safer’, it makes it exclusionary and reinforces existing inequalities, especially for trans women and athletes from the Global South.
It has long been recognised that sex and gender are not simple binaries. Biological sex is bi-modal, with natural variations in chromosomes, hormones, and anatomy. There is no single way to ‘measure’ womanhood and policies that try to do so end up policing and excluding women who don’t fit narrow, Western norms.
Sport should be a place where people feel safe, welcomed, and able to show up as their whole selves. Instead, this policy reinforces harmful stereotypes, encourages policing of women’s bodies, and pushes already marginalized athletes out of the spaces they’ve fought to be in.
If you want to learn more about sex, gender, and how to build inclusive environments in your skate programs, you can check out our e-course on Queer and Trans+ Inclusion, where we cover:
👉 understanding queer identity
👉 the history of queer and trans+ skaters
👉 how to create safer and welcoming spaces
👉 what true inclusion in skateboarding looks like
(link in bio)
We stand with trans communities, trans skaters and with all athletes who have been affected by this unjust policy 🏳️⚧️
Photo by @sissiphoto at the @gnarathon_vienna 2025 (not related to this text, just a nice photo)
At Dream House Uganda, our skateboarding program is more than just riding. It’s about building inclusive leadership and unity.
Every child is given a voice, a chance to lead, and an opportunity to support others. We encourage teamwork, respect, and lifting each other up, no matter the background.
Through skateboarding and other programs/activities, we are creating safe spaces where everyone belongs, grows together, and learns the power of moving as one community.
#skateboarding #dreamhouseuganda #girls #boys #fitforallages
