About us

Illustration by Silvan Zweifel

Mission and vision

Forever Playground is documenting skateboarding socials projects for underprivileged youth around the world and giving exposure to inspiring solidarity initiatives and unknown skateboarding scenes to highlight the inspirational work from various organizations dedicated to the same cause : sharing the passion of skateboarding to those who can benefit from it the most.

To do so, we are editing and publishing quality print magazines once a year and running an online platform with monthly updates about international social projects.

Forever Playground is supporting social community projects by distributing funds and equipment for skatepark builds and skateboard programs where it’s most needed.

To be able to finance such projects, we sell our magazine as well as merchandise online and organise fundraising events such as release publication parties, exhibitions, video premieres, skateboarding animations, workshops and more.

Forever Playground is researching and classifying skateboarding cultural knowledge in various fields that range from social change, education, mental health and lifestyle ethics to urbanism, politics, self empowerment and community development.

For this, we are editing A Skate library, an online platform dedicated to cultural knowledge within skateboarding where books, academic research, articles, documentaries, conferences & talks are classified by theme and directly linked, if public.

Impact

Forever Playground is an international non profit organisation that documents and funds social projects in the realm of skateboarding.

All our proceeds are directly invested in supporting skateboarding social projects carrying a social impact on the youth and the community.

2020-2021 Annual Report

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Ethics & values

At Forever Playground we deeply believe in playgrounds and want to see more of it growing around the world. Skateboarding playgrounds, because they are open, free and non discriminatory of gender, race, age or social and cultural background. Also because they are fields that encourage solidarity instead of competitiveness, freedom and initiatives instead of obedience and mimicry, creativity instead of conformism. They are places that teach how failure is a necessary step towards success, they are homes of mistakes tolerance and skills generosity.

Skateboarding and the inherent positive values at its core bring new experiences to emulate self expression, engage cross cultural connections and build up resilience among individuals. We believe skateboarding has a unique potential to connect people together no matter their differences and as a result creates strong communities of eclectic individuals who engage in society with the will to make it a better place for all.

We also believe in playing as the purest act of love, a way to express our love for life. Skateboarding is a playful activity shared among all generations allowing everyone to interact on a deeper level. Playing is and will be the purest social interaction we will ever have. When there’s no other interest than having fun, when there’s nothing at stake that would compromise our social status or our finances, we’re most likely to be ourselves and let the others be themselves. That is how we will, genuinely, create real social bonds that would go beyond personal interest, and therefore give rise to inspiring community initiatives and carry social change. That is why we feel the need to create and encourage those hubs, second home for new families of friendships and community growth, land of experiments and self development and of course, forever playgrounds.

Picture by Mohamed Ahsan

Who are we?

Lisa Jacob

• Founder and Publishing Director

Clément Taquet

• Administration

Tom Critchley

• Copy-Editor

Silvan Zweifel

• Illustrator

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