 This is Project Skate Park in Manchester, one of the largest concrete skate parks in the country. The Hive helped us to expand the skate park. The project was set up back in 2004. We've managed to transform disused land under a flyover into a space that is a hive of community activity. We set up as a cooperative because it seemed to be suitable for a group of people that all had a shared purpose. The community that we have down here is so strong, honestly. We put as much effort as we can into getting people into skateboarding and developing them and just being there for them and creating a safe environment for people to learn. So we do adults coaching, we do girls night coaching, we do weekend beginner classes for mainly under-16s and we also go into schools and run after-school clubs and lunchtime clubs and just expose children to skateboarding a lot more than they would otherwise. We're here to serve people and to support people and care for people and welcome people regardless of their background. When I came here I feel like it was a big change for me. It kind of helped my anxiety, I guess, by coming and speaking to people and making more friends. It gives me confidence that I didn't have before I started doing this. We set up as a community benefit society because we wanted to invite people to join what we were doing and purchase shares so that we could raise the capital to expand the skate park. As part of issuing community shares, the Hive commissioned a consultant to work closely with us to make sure that the share offer was as good as it possibly could be. We want people to be a part of what we're doing, a part of the decisions that we're making. There's so many different ways that this expansion project is going to benefit us. It's expanding spectator space, we're going to have a larger cafe space but one of the biggest things is that we're going to be building more ramps, more space for skateboarding. We've been coming for four years now with my two boys which is why I've just got involved recently with the crowd funder. We spend so much time here, it's really important to us. This place is really unique, it's really special, it does work that not a lot of people are doing in the country and I'd like to see expand and go further because the work it's doing is really valuable and I think it's changing people's lives. It's just a beautiful place, it's good, this is good for the soul.