Skateboard Scotland is a fully constituted body, and we're not for profit – any money we make is put directly back into benefiting the Scottish skateboarding scene.

Who we are

		Ali Menzies, Chairman Ali is 30 and has been skating constantly since 1988. He is currently a Assistant Pricing Manager for a corporate bank. Fairly dull but does pay the bills. He is married to Beki and has three kids which keep him busy. He can be found skating Livi two or three times a week with his son Kieran. He also spends a lot of time trying to organise events such as War of the Thistles for Skateboard Scotland.
		Neil Currie, Vice Chairman Neil has been skating for 16 years, right through all the baggy troosers and tiny wheels. He started after seeing some kids in France doing ollies over boards. When he's not skating, he's updating the Tractor Factory, going to the volume of council skatepark meetings that sunny Fife seems to have, doing a spot of rock climbing and hill walking.
		Beki Menzies, Secretary
		Rick Curran, Vice Secretary Rick is 35 and started skateboarding after watching 'Future Primitive' in 1985. Rick has been actively involved in skateboarding since then and helped design and build The Factory skateparks that have been in built in Dundee since the late 80's. His main skatespot is the concrete park in Dudhope Park (Check out www.dundeeconcrete.com). Rick's day job is running his own digital media company. He's married to Annie and has a daughter Natalie who are both interested in skateboarding.
		Alex Smith, Treasurer Alex is 28 and her involvement in skateboarding is so far limited to being an avid spectator, although she is keen to get her three year old daughter skating before the fear sinks in. As a qualified accountant, Alex takes care of the finances, merchandising and general admin, as well as trying to drum up as many female members as possible.
		Sam Paterson, Vice Treasurer Started skating in Glasgow in 1987, a Church regular and worked in Clan for 2 years. Moved to Edinburgh to study and then work - still here with a while in between in Ireland. Been trying to get Edinburgh Council to build a skatepark since 2001 and still on the case - determined to see it before I'm 40.
		Stu Hill, Committee Member Stu has been skating since he was 14 and recently spent most his days in Fife till relocating to Edinburgh, he miss's having Kirkcaldy skatepark as his local. He's was involved in the process of getting Kirkcaldy skatepark built and even tried making a living from skating when he took over DB Boardstore. To eager to skate than make money, the shop closed its doors for good in 2006. Stu has also been helping run comps in his hometown and around Fife. Now Stu can be found teaching kids to skate and sessioning any given spot on any given day.
		Sean Mcabe, Entertainment Manager Sean's been skating off and on since 1976 (mostly falling off), been involved in trying to get a skatepark built in edinburgh way back in 1989 and setting up the first ESP which started the bristo jam the same year. He's done workshops teaching people to skate mini's (he reckons he can even teach your granny how to skate) and made several skate videos. When he's not on his board, Sean produces hip hop and drum n bass, and has had several releases over the years.
		Craig Mitchell, Committee Member
		Paul Sylvester, Committee Member
		Ian Young, Committee Member
		Kenny Omond, Committee Member
		Joe Tree, Committee Member

Mission statement

For skateboarding to become a widely accepted, properly facilitated and managed mainstream sport throughout Scotland. For Scotland to produce and retain the next generation of professional skateboarders, and attract international interest in Scottish skateboarding through the development of world-class facilities.

Key aims

To enthuse and nurture current and successive new generations of professional Scottish skateboarders. To stimulate international interest in Scottish skateboarding through the development of world-class facilities.

Key objectives

To:

• develop and maintain a wide ranging membership of participants.
• encourage and develop proper skateboarding facilities, accessible to all of Scotland
• promote associated commercial enterprises
• represent and promote the interests of Scottish skateboarders
• provide advice on safety and best practice to skateboarders and skateboarding facilities
• publicise and promote the sport to the general public
• provide structure and management to the sport
• create a safe, productive and rewarding skateboarding environment in Scotland
• organise and regulate a programme of local and national skateboarding events
• widen appeal and take up amongst groups underrepresented in the sport
• establish a network of local representatives throughout Scotland

Secondary objectives

To:

• provide an accessible forum to members for debate on all matters relating to skateboarding in Scotland
• encourage healthy lifestyle choices in relation to eating, exercise and drugs
• promote positive relationships with figures of authority and adults
• promote positive peer interaction and influence, character development and self-esteem
• establish nationally recognised standards of ability
• encourage older adult programmes
• encourage deeper community involvement in local skateboarding developments