In Jersey, the skateboarding facilities are limited to only two parks and one mini-ramp. There is one in St Helier and one in St Johns, the one is St Helier is the main park which is usable for skateboards, scooters and BMX’s, and the one in St John’s is mainly for skateboards and occasionally scooters. Although to some people this might seem like a good number for an island of this size, in reality it’s not very much as the parks are quite a small size and don’t feature things that proper skateparks feature. For example, there are no bowls that you can skate, and this limits people learning transition tricks as the only vert equipment is the quarter pipe and mini-ramp in St Ouen’s, Because of there being limited facilities, a campaign has been set up on Facebook to gain funding for more facilities in Jersey. 

The project has been set up to be a way to gain funding from the public for skateboarding facilities, as it usually costs a large sum of money to build equipment. The first thing that is being funded is a portable 8ft mini ramp, so that they are able to have vert competitions all over the island and raise even more money for more projects. The project has gained a large following by the skateboarding community, as they all want to see a change in Jersey and have more facilities produced. It has even been picked up by the Facebook page of popular international skateboarding magazine Sidewalk.  This shows that the community is really wanting new facilities as the following for the project is growing larger and larger each day.

In my documentary I am going to be showing the project, and the whole theme of the documentary will be about wanting and needing the new facilities.