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FREE admission for young people with Leisure Cards

FREE admission for young people with Leisure Cards

Jul 25th 2018 | General Information

Southsea Skatepark since becoming a charity in 2011 has continually strived to be a place where people of all ages can be active and get creative taking part in skateboarding, BMX, scootering and more in a safe space in the heart of Southsea in Portsmouth. As a...

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Southsea Skatepark
Clarence Esplanade
Southsea
PO5 3NZ
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023 9229 5360
mail@southseaskatepark.org

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SOUTHSEA SKATEPARK TRUST

Southsea Skatepark, Clarence Esplanade, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO5 3NZ
02392 295 360
/ mail@southseaskatepark.org
Charity registration number: 1141066
/ Company registration number: 6679416

Following an unsuccessful attempt to put the skatepark out to tender in 2005/06, Portsmouth City Council proposed reducing the opening of the park to the summer months only. This was widely seen by the users and others as a step towards closure and provoked a vociferous campaign of objection. In response, the Leader of the Council threw out a challenge to the park’s supporters to come up with a new body to take over the park operation.

A number of individuals came together, registered as a not for profit company and subsequently as a charity and negotiated the transfer of the park on 1st April 2011.

The Southsea Skatepark Company (working name Southsea Skatepark Trust), has a 60 year lease on the park at a peppercorn rent. In the first five years of operation the Trust received year-on-year reducing revenue funding from the Council. This funding ceased on 31st March 2016, since when the Trust has been wholly self-funding.

As an additional income stream, the Trust opened its own onsite shop in 2014, selling scooters, skates, helmets and spares, as well as a range of own branded goods.

The Trust also owns a catering unit within the park, which is rented to an independent operator and yields a rental to the Trust as well as providing a service to users, parents and spectators.

The Skatepark is open all year round and caters for beginners to professionals, with some 90% of users being under 16.

For more information, contact us at the email address shown above.