For councils, community teams and local government
YOU BUILT THE SKATEPARK, THE TRACK AND THE BEACH ACCESS. WE'LL HELP FILL THEM.
Councils spend serious money on skateparks, pump tracks, trails, mountain bike tracks, and beach access. HORNGRY helps turn those spaces into regular sessions, events and a local crew that turns up week after week. We reach the young people and adults who don't join traditional sports clubs, and we get them outside, active and together.
Why action sports
No trials. No kick off time. No membership fee.
Plenty of people will never join a football or netball club. Action sports reach them anyway. You don't need a team, a fixed time or a coach to start. A 12 year old and a 45 year old can ride the same park in the same session. That's why skateparks and trails pull in people other programmes struggle to reach.
Hard to reach young people
Teenagers who've drifted from school sport often stay with skating and riding for years.
All ages together
Parents, kids and older riders share the same space, which is rare in organised sport.
Low cost to start
A secondhand board or bike is enough to start, so cost stops fewer people than in most sports.
Spaces that get used
A regular crew means the facility you paid for is busy, looked after and feels safe.
The problem
Screens are winning.
What young people are doing instead
25%
UK 10 to 15 year olds online seven or more hours a day at weekends
Source: Office for National Statistics, 2026
4h 9m
Daily screen time for Australian 15 to 17 year olds, not counting study
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2026
18.3%
Australian 5 to 17 year olds getting 60 minutes of activity every day
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2026
The numbers councils already use
Community sport pays back.
£4.38
Returned to the economy and society for every £1 invested in community sport and physical activity in England
Source: Sport England, 2023/24
£122.9bn
Annual social value of community sport and physical activity in England
Source: Sport England, 2023/24
£20bn
Yearly cost to society of inequalities in activity levels in England
Source: Sport England
$7
Returned for every dollar spent on sport in Australia
Source: Australian Sports Commission Clearinghouse for Sport
$18.7bn
Annual social capital value of community sport participation in Australia
Source: Australian Sports Commission Clearinghouse for Sport
The people with the most to gain from being active are often the least likely to be. That's who HORNGRY was built for.
How we help
Pick what your town needs.
Opening days and launches
New or refurbished skatepark, pump track or trail? We bring the riders, run the day and make sure people come back after it.
Regular community sessions
Weekly or monthly sessions open to everyone, with beginner time and gear to borrow for first timers.
Consultation with real riders
Designing a new facility? We connect you with the local people who'll actually use it, so you build what gets ridden.
Promotion that reaches the right people
We put your events and spaces in front of the local crew through HORNGRY channels and the app when it launches.
Photos, film and stories
Our Culture Contributors document your events properly, giving you material for reports, funding bids and your own channels.
Numbers you can report
After each event we send you attendance, first timers and age ranges, ready for your reports.
Three steps. No red tape from our side.
- 01
Tell us about your space
What you've got, what's not working and who you want to reach.
- 02
We agree what success looks like
A call or a site visit. We work out the format, the dates and what you want to be able to report.
- 03
We show up and report back
We run it with you, then send you the numbers and the photos.
Why HORNGRY exists
Built by someone who needed it.
HORNGRY was founded by Brian Smithies, who grew up in the UK care system with a board and a park that didn't ask any questions. HORNGRY is the Home of the Uninvited: a global action sports community for the people who get left out, across Street, Surf, Dirt, Snow and Sky. We work across the UK and Australia.
Safeguarding comes first.
Many of the people at our sessions are young. Every HORNGRY event follows our safeguarding policy, and we work to your council's own requirements for public events on your sites.
Read our safeguarding approachTalk to us about your town.
Every enquiry is read by a real person and answered within 48 hours.