Get On Board South Yorkshire CIC has a mission; to encourage and ensure participation in skateboarding for females and young people.

This CIC is founded by Emily Jones, a female skateboarding coach. Emily is studying a PE with Outdoor Education degree, researching skateboarding positive impacts, and writing a dissertation based on identifying the impact of skateboarding from a physical, social, psychological and lifestyle wellbeing perspective in poverty affected areas of the UK. It is has become evident through research that taking part in Outdoor Adventure Education can positively improve young people’s lives.

Our vision to create a community where females and children gain confidence to improve skills at a safe space, enabling them to go to skateparks outside out lessons feeling confidence, comfortable and finding it easier to make friends.

The 2020 Olympics sparked lots of young people to try out this thrilling form of exercise with more opportunities than ever before and since lockdown; over 70,000 people have started skateboarding according to recent statistics. Skateboarding has since grown into a professional and well-respected sport.  It’s an important ethos to Get On Board South Yorkshire C.I.C that within our local area we can ensure young people are active, safe, and happy and access to more opportunities to improve their social and interpersonal skills.

 
 A study was conducted in a poverty affected area of South Africa and is written by Katherine Sorsdahl (2021)

’’Experiences and perceived benefits of a youth skateboarding program in South Africa: From the physical to emotional and beyond’’ confirms that skateboarding programs has the following positive benefits:
-Experiencing a sense of belonging
-protection from gang recruitment
-community violence
-physical and emotional benefits of exercise
-mentors as positive role models
-learning lifestyle skills.
 
This is just one study that starts to outline the perceived benefits of skateboarding and it’s exciting to see what research and information Get on Board South Yorkshire C.I.C can provide for skateboard coaching within sessions and across the UK.  Our vision to create a community where females and children gain confidence to improve skills at a safe space, enabling them to go to skateparks outside out lessons feeling confidence, comfortable and finding it easier to make friends.  
 
Learning Outcomes of the Program
 
-Social connectedness
-Build Resilience
-Use Self-Determination
-Develop self-esteem
-Improve Skateboarding Skills