John Haines



Projekts mcr


United Kingdom


The Business


Projekts MCR is a unique, well designed, high capacity and safely managed skatepark with comfortable spectator areas and a cafe with great coffee.


Projekt MCR offers a range of skateboarding lessons for all ages and abilities in a variety of formats, from group lessons to individual one-to-one classes. In addition to this, Projekt MCR also provides lessons for schools, universities and pupil referral units. 

MISSION


Projekt MCR’s mission is to make skateboarding accessible to everyone. The business has spent the last 18 years redeeming dead urban spaces into lively, safe community spaces, and helping staff and customers reach their potential, caring for them, and trying to engender in them the kind of attitudes that are changing the skate community for the better.

Faith/Leadership


John shapes the organization around Jesus and influences positive change in him. He models the organization’s values and attitudes on the church, training the team to be welcoming, supportive, non-judgemental, charitable and gracious not only towards the customers they like, but those they find difficult, too. Many of Projekt MCR’s staff are not believers, but these attitudes resonate with them. John doesn't pin the values to the walls of the facility, so it's especially heartening and reassuring to read the feedback from customers on Google Reviews, many of which describe the welcoming nature of the skatepark staff and coaching team and how they felt supported and cared for in their first steps into skateboarding.

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