<h4><strong><span><span><span><span><span>Challenges Faced by Social Skate Projects</span></span></span></span></span></strong></h4>

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Led by Joest and Kim from Drop In e.V., two of our workshops focused on the collective challenges faced by NGOs/social skateboarding projects. From mental health and wellbeing to expansion, accounting and fundraising, finding the perfect team members who balance ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skills, and the transition from a grassroots project to a registered organization. It was comforting to find that we had all struggled with similar experiences just in different contexts. The main challenge for all being the difficulty of gaining funding in order to allow long-term sustainability and growth. With limited time and resources, it is extremely hard to be running the skate programs on the ground while doing the accounting and measuring impact in order to satisfy the needs of the grant makers. Not to mention the research to find the grants available, completing the application forms and trying to ensure people actually get paid for the hard work they do. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

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