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SkateMCR

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About Me

SkateMCR is Manchester's Skate Collective. See www.skatemcr.com for the latest news and information.
CELEBRATE
SkateMCR celebrates skateboarding in Manchester. We aim to to this by creating skate competitions and jams, organising a skate film festival and a Manchester skate festival.
OPPOSE
SkateMCR opposes the byelaws banning skateboarding in Manchester's City Centre . We will oppose the byelaws by public protest, petitions and efforts to educate the council and public about the true positive nature of skateboarding. We believe skateboarders have an equal right to use public spaces responsibly, along with other citizens.
DEMAND
We demand that any Council in Greater Manchester consults with us whenever they attempt to create future skate facilities. Too often has public money been wasted on badly designed and un-usable skateparks. We will form advisory groups consisting of skaters to design and oversee the building of any skate facility.
ENHANCE
We want to see the skate scene in Manchester enhanced by gaining a concrete skate plaza and an extension to the Pump Cage under the Mancunian Way. We will lobby the relevant groups or people to get such a plaza built either at the gasworks, or at the new media city development at salford quays. We will also support efforts to get funding for the extension to the Pump Cage.
URBIS Skate Interviews

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Go Skateboarding Day, Manchester

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ASBO at Projekts

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ASBO at CAST

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ASBO at Central Skatepark

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My Blog

Go Skateboarding Day 2008

This year's Go Skateboarding Day is fast approaching (it's June 21st in case you didn't know). And this year SkateMCR is planning to organise another protest skate at URBIS.Last year it got rained off...
Posted by SkateMCR on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:01:00 PST

Save SkateMCR Co-op Meeting - 3rd March

As you may know, SkateMCR needs to become a Co-operative to keep going. The poll www.skatemcr.com currently suggests that 85% of you want SkateMCR to continue. So it's time to do something about it.On...
Posted by SkateMCR on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:35:00 PST

SkateMCRs Future Depends On You

SkateMCR is at a crunch point in terms of it's future.The HistoryI (Ben Gibbs) founded SkateMCR in Novemebr 2006 as a result of talking to skaters for a few months about what they thought of the Manch...
Posted by SkateMCR on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:39:00 PST

SkateMCRs Christmas Doo Part 2

Yes, it's true, we have another Christmas Party organised for you&and it's a gudd'n.Central Skatepark will be hosting the 2nd part of our Christmas Doo with a Nativity themed Fancy Dress Skate Jam! Th...
Posted by SkateMCR on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:57:00 PST

SkateMCR’s Christmas Doo Part 1

To celebrate Christmas this year, SkateMCR has arranged not 1 party, but 2! "Tell me more!" I hear you say...The first party will also be the premiere of Dan Cintra's new Skate Film "everyone" which p...
Posted by SkateMCR on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:44:00 PST

Sign SkateMCR Petition To Remove Byelaws

SkateMCR has set-up a petition on the Governments petition website asking the Prime Minister to Remove the Byelaws which ban skateboarding in Manchester's City Centre.Click here to go to the petition ...
Posted by SkateMCR on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:29:00 PST

SkateMCR on FaceBook

SkateMCR is now a group on Facebook so if you're already on, join the group! And if you're not already on, join Facebook, then join the SkateMCR group!You can add photo's, video's, link's, messages, a...
Posted by SkateMCR on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:48:00 PST

New SkateMCR Podcast

Welcome to the new SkateMCR Podcast!The podcast will consist of interviews with people (mostly skaters) about the skatescene in Manchester and about their own history in skateboarding. It aims to expl...
Posted by SkateMCR on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:53:00 PST

BBC Poll about Skateboarding in Manchesters City Centre after 6pm

The BBC Manchester website has written an article about the Public Meeting about Skateboarding which took place on Tuesday night - The Skate Debate.It includes a Poll asking whether you agree skateboa...
Posted by SkateMCR on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:47:00 PST

Go Skateboarding Day In Manchester

The protest we planned for Go Skateboarding Day at URBIS was unfortunately rained off, but it didn't stop plenty of Skaters getting out to skate. Most seemed to be found at the Pump Cage during the af...
Posted by SkateMCR on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:53:00 PST