The results of the 2025 edition of the Survey of Social Skateboarding Projects Worldwide by Skateistan and the Goodpush Alliance are now published!

Throughout February and March 2026, we received answers from 116 skateboarding projects working in 64 countries worldwide, who collectively reached a total of 66,951 participants in the past year alone.

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This annual survey aims to better understand and document the goals, activities, impact, and evolution of skateboarding for social change globally. The findings provide valuable data that social skateboarding practitioners can use for program planning, organizational development, fundraising, capacity building, advocacy, and long-term strategy.

This year also marks an important milestone: we have now collected eight years of data on the global social skateboarding sector!

When the first survey was launched in 2018, the term “social skateboarding” was not yet widely used. Although many impactful projects already existed around the world, they were concentrated in fewer countries (often in more developed contexts) and operated in a much more isolated way. At that time, fewer than 40% of projects reported regularly connecting with others internationally.

The 2025 survey results paint a very different picture. Today, more than 80% of projects say they frequently connect with others globally, reflecting the rapid growth, collaboration, and strengthening of the worldwide social skateboarding movement.

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One of the clearest trends in the 2025 survey results is the continued growth of leadership pathways within social skateboarding projects. More young people are stepping into active roles in program delivery through volunteering, formal leadership training, and employment opportunities within projects themselves. Increasingly, former participants are becoming staff members, facilitators, and community leaders.

At the same time, representation of women and girls in leadership and staffing continued to rise, with half of all surveyed projects now reporting women and girls in leadership roles. Together, these trends reflect a growing commitment across the sector to creating long-term, meaningful pathways for participants to shape and lead the communities they are part of.

The survey’s optional participant feedback section, based on the Goodpush “Collective Theory of Change”  also offers important insight into the shared impact of social skateboarding worldwide. Across projects, participants reported high levels of fun, safety, confidence, friendship, wellbeing, and opportunities to learn new skills.

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Comparing results from 2024 to 2025, projects maintained exceptionally high scores in both safety and enjoyment (above 90%), while also seeing significant growth in participants reporting they learned useful new skills. There was also a 4% increase in participants saying they are more likely to continue skateboarding or participating in sports in the future.

These annual survey findings continue to shape how the Goodpush Alliance supports and strengthens the global social skateboarding community. We also encourage projects, researchers, and advocates to use this data to help position their own work as part of a growing worldwide movement using skateboarding as a tool for social change.

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A big thank you to all the projects that completed the 2025 Social Skate Survey:

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#WeUprising Movement

100% Skate Club

Affinity Skateboarding

Além do Skate

Alma Skeittaus 

Artplus 

Asphalt Sirens

Associação Cini Skate Social

Associação Esportiva e Cultural Pró Esporte (AESPE)

AYNI Skate Project

Beginner Bumps

Black Girls Shred

Boarders Not Borders CIC

Boobiebrettler

Bangladesh Street Kids Aid (BSKA)

Canada Skateboard

Chicas en Llamas Perú

Closecall Skateboarding

Coletivo Adelante

Coletivo Skate Maré

Concrete Jungle Foundation

Cultura Skateboard

Daibai Skateboarding

Dream House Uganda

Eau Claire Skateboarders Association

Emaswati Skate

Engorile Skateboarding

Escola de skate espírito livre

Ethiopia skate

Exposure Skate

First Push/Get On Board

Formiga de skate

Forquilha Skate Crew (skate nas escolas)

Free Movement Skateboarding

Freedom Skatepark Foundation

Fundação Maputo Skate E Educação

Galapagos Skateboarding Club

Galapagos Skateboarding School

GirlSkate Nairobi

HIGH FIVE e.V.

House of Skate Foundation Aruba

Instituto Jiquitaia/ Escolinha de skate ajudar para transformar

JM Court

JRSkates School Of Skateboarding

Keep Rolling Project

Killer's Skate KS

Local skatepark organization

Look Back Library

Love CT Inclusão e Resgate

Love Dojô

Make Life Skate Life

Make SB

Mamelodi Skate Club

Nations Skate Youth

Niña Skates

Olivella Skate Club

Pirkanmaan Kaarikoirat Ry (Ramp Dogs Skateboarding Association)

Portland Sun Schools (IRCO) Immigrant Refugee Community Organization

Pro radical Skate - CEU Centro de Estudos Universais

Project Elimu

Projeto Base Dois Skate Social

Projeto Demorô Skate é Vida

Projeto SKARTE

Projeto Skate Cidadão

Projeto Skaterapia

Projeto Social Limo Skateboard - LSK

Push To Heal

Rampalimpia

Respect is Rad / Consent is Rad

Right to Skate

Salad Days of Skateboarding

SAN SKATE

Shoobyduby

Shred.Co

SIT'N'SKATE

Skate & Beyond Foundation

Skate Colaborativo

Skate Laramie

Skate Like a Girl

Skate Nottingham CIC

Skate Solidário Canoas

Skate World Better z.s.

Skateboarding is Positive

Skateboarding PNG

Skateboarding.ps

Skateducate

Skateistan gGmbH

Skateistan Afghanistan

Skateistan Cambodia

Skateistan South Africa

SkatePal

Skaters Nepal Funpark Pvt Ltd

Skatesencia - Chile

Skatesencia e.V

Skating Unlocked

SOA Paris

SOCIAL VIDA NO SKATE

Solwezi Skateboarding

Soulful Skate Co.

Square State Skate

Super Skate Posse

Surf Ghana

Surf Skate Science

The Boarding School

The Lodge Indoor Skatepark

The Skate School

Tifrkhin Skate

Timor Skate

Tytöt Shreddaa

U Can Skate

WallRide PT

WeSkate Mongu

Women Relief Aid

Youth Workshops - Build Your Own Skateboard

Yuwa For Change

Zona Skate Social Project

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