Europe's First Women of Colour Longboarding Crew | UK's First WoC Surf Crew | Multi Award Winning | Sport For Social Change | Created by @heygirldreamer_
Welcoming this new incredible surf crew to our Boarders Without Borders fam! ๐
We're on a mission to create better access, more opportunities and increase inclusion in adventure sports for women of colour so ..
Here's the UK's First WoC Surf Crew ๐ #samemissiondifferentboard
IT'S LIVE ๐ง
This awesome @Womeninsport_uk podcast episode features our founder @amnaakhtar14 of @heygirldreamer_ & the amazing @thebrownhijabi of @Maslaha discussing barriers Muslim girls & WoC face accessing sport.
It's a DOPE episode, tune in!๐๐ฟ
https://t.co/ewgp3smt38
Big shout out to @thebrownhijabi for inviting our co-founder @amnaakhtar14 to join her on the @Womeninsport_uk podcast talking all things sport for young Muslim women, how GD & @Maslaha support our communities & wider societal barriers to successfully access sport! Stay tuned ๐
New branding, who dis?! ๐
It's all about rewriting the rules & flipping the script on sport here at BWB & thanks to @newe023 & her incredible design skills, we're now able to say all of that through this super sleek branding!
Spot that @heygirldreamer_ style gradient too ๐๐
I'm also down to teach some longboarding. I'm head coach at @BoardersWB. It's cold I know. But a Sunday morning in your local park learning something new is actually what dreams are made of + that's how I started.
@poornabell @KiranNotKeiran@guardianopinion Yasss, we love this, thank you for writing this! We're so grateful @amnaakhtar14 decided to go against the grain, start longboarding and then use her hobby to set up this movement! Now you can't miss us, we're so visible and growing by the day. It's the best feeling ๐
From morning till night, our incredible @BoardersWB and founders @amnaakhtar14 & @KiranNotKeiran have spent the day braving the freezing weather to shoot something special for an advert that we can't talk about just yet ๐๐คญ
Big s/o to the crew for being so epic! We ๐ y'all!!
๐น Find out how a group of women in #Birmingham decided to reshape the current narratives around representation by using sport as a tool for social change! #BackHerBusiness
๐ช Raised ยฃ30,624
๐ 463 supporters
๐ ยฃ5k #ExtraFunding from @NatWestBusiness
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Huge thank you to @thenorthface for hosting the GirlDreamer team at the Birmingham launch event! Super special to have our co-founder @amnaakhtar14 on the panel talking all things exploration, adventure & @BoardersWB ๐
Oh & the gifts bags are EPIC! They hooked us UP y'all! ๐
We've got visitors! ๐ Amna and Kiran, founders (and complete #girlbosses) of @heygirldreamer_ and @BoardersWB came and spent some time with us this afternoon. It was great to catch up- come back soon! #TeamQCT
We were so gassed to see our GDs from @BoardersWB plastered all over the place @UKHouseofLords yesterday & so grateful to talk all about them/our work! Big shout-out to @queenscomtrust & @Marthalanefox for inviting us along & sharing important spaces with us! #AllyshipInAction ๐๐พ
๐จ EPIC GIRLDREAMER ALERT ๐จ
One of our badass @BoardersWB members @SophiaJGriffin has only gone and got her show "Fathers, Families & F*ckboys" fully funded and now performing @BirminghamRep, twice! ๐
Learn more, show your support & book tickets here - https://t.co/y0wSftrVF6
More action from our surf crew ๐
This is Elyssa and she's a total badass! Why you ask? Well, after getting in the water, being injured by her board, ending up in A&E with a fist-sized bump, she took a little rest, got right back in the water & just continued to be cool af ๐๐ฅ
Our #GirlDreamer@emkayhaytch is out in Amsterdam this week with @Women_Win representing us and all things @BoardersWB ๐
It's all about digital storytelling & as someone who works in the digital space as a motion graphics animator, we're sure Malikah is going to be great! ๐๐พ๐ฅ