For those that aren't sure, The Boarding School is just one of the projects run by our parent charity, 'The YOU Foundation' aka The YOUF....

Despite me catching covid and having to cancel our Sunday session this week, The Halloween Jam went ahead as planned, thanks to our...

Our Halloween jam was amazing last year. We'd only been running the skateboard sessions about 6 months and already had a great group that...

Finally! The wait is over! The Boarding School is opening for three sessions a week! It feels like it taken an age to do all the needs...

Last weekend we took a group of young skaters on The Boarding School's first road trip away. Some poor planning meant the date didn't get...

August 22nd saw the second of our annual collaborative community skate jams with Creative Youth Network. Last year we supported the jam...

Back in November 2021 we were approached by a few of our under 15 skaters to see if it was possible to have a time solely for girls to...

Following on from our 'Difficult topic' blog post of 31st March we have been busy behind the scenes to bring you this! A workshop for...

Skate jams and comps can be a great way for skateboarders to get together and celebrate this thing that we love. It can also offer some...

Wow! What a busy week! The boarding School took a mini road trip last week to offer skateboarding workshops at a couple of Jubilee...

Why shouldn't Skateboarding be part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Celebrations? She's definitely, probably tried or had a go right?!...

At the first Skate Committee meeting the group of young skaters had a modest budget to spend on a new obstacle. The group took...

9th to 15th May 2022 is Mental Health Awareness week, with the focus this year being about loneliness. It's long been talked about how...

A group of young skaters met this week for the second Skate Committee meeting. Skaters caught up on actions from the previous meeting...

All this week a friend of mine, Johnathan 'Willsy' Wills, has set himself the challenge of Skating 372 miles, which is the equivalent...

We've had an amazing year at The YOU Foundation, and especially The Boarding School project. Below is a quick video that recaps on out...

In 2020 with the world thrown into lockdown the youth centre had to close its doors. Over that following year we tried to find ways to...

*Reader discretion is advised, this blog post discusses sexual assault and may be distressing to some. If you've been affected by any of...

Recently we asked for your thoughts on a possible new session at The Boarding School; Our Sundays Sessions! We want to open up the park...

Today is young carers action day! And to celebrate the Young Carers support service hired the YOUF Centre to run a day of activities,...