Do you guys have any projects you are
working on at the moment?
We’ve got some ideas for the pool. There’s
a room on the side we call the Boiler Room,
and bizarrely, it’s about 4ft in width shorter
than our original skate park.
So you could almost replicate your
original old park in there.
That’s kinda what we’re thinking. We’ve
had volunteers clean it out and we’re at the
point where we can paint and graffiti the
internal walls, add a wooden mini-ramp,
and try and mimic our original skate park in
there. We’d like to add a pool table in there,
some sofas, it’s quite exciting.
We’re also looking at transforming the
boys’ changing rooms into a mixed-use
hot-desking space for professionals in the
skate industry. We’d handpick companies
that would work well for us, and one of the
clauses in our agreement will be to provide
some in-kind work with the young people.
It’d make the building busier and shorten
the link between a young person desperate
to be involved in the industry but doesn’t
have a clue on how to do it. It’s about
making skate industry careers attainable
to kids.
That’s a great idea. Are you guys content
with two parks? What’s the dream for
you?
Personally, I don’t’ think we’ll ever be
content. I’d love to put another Campus
Skate Park somewhere else in the country
where kids don’t have an indoor park and
are struggling to find somewhere to skate
when it’s raining. Honestly, I’d love nothing
more than the coffee shop and online store
to be so successful that people could just
come and use the skate park for free and
completely remove any barriers that might
stop a struggling kid from coming here,
skating, and feeling like this is a safe place
where they can just hang out.
Good stuff. Thanks for the chat, man. I
love what you guys are about and I wish
you all the best for the future.
It’s a pleasure. Thank you!
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