Episode 43 with Chris Lawton, skateboarder, co-founder of Skate Nottingham and Community Development Officer at Skateboard GB. 

Together we discussed him growing up in Boston, Lincolnshire, moving to Nottingham in 1996 to study history and connecting with the thriving local skate scene, working in academia at Nottingham Trent University for a few years, traveling to Malmö and Copenhagen with his skate friends and drawing much inspiration from there to launch Skate Nottingham, a non-profit which uses skateboarding as a tool to unlock learning and creativity, participating in a talk about « skate friendly cities » at Pushing Boarders 2018 in London, recently taking the position as Community Development Officer at Skateboard GB, the National Governing Body for skateboarding for the UK…   

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