The Home of UK Surf History
added to the website on Dec 16, 2011
The Museum of British Surfing’s first event in North Devon was a sell-out UK film premiere that raised £900 for the Charity. The big wave movie night was organised and run by volunteers, led by Tom Sharpe and supported by the local surfing community. More than 100 people packed out Croyde Village Hall last night, ……»
added to the website on Nov 16, 2011
We’d like to say a massive THANK YOU to all the volunteers who joined the Museum of British Surfing and our friends at Surfers Against Sewage for the first two events in the 2011 North Devon Beach Clean Series this weekend – what a great turn out, and superb job! 100 people came to Saunton ……»
added to the website on Sep 05, 2011
Naomi Perkin from St Ives won the 9th annual World Bellyboarding Championships at Chapel Porth in Cornwall yesterday. The contest, organised by our friends at The National Trust, is a celebration of the traditional art of surf riding – surfing prone on a short wooden bodyboard. It now attracts a truly international field of entrants ……»
added to the website on Aug 08, 2011
The newly painted Braunton Bowl hosted the final leg of a truly amazing 24 mile skateboard marathon on Tuesday, August 9th. The Four Parks Tour 2011 was organised by Lampard Skate Club – Lampard is a school for students aged 7 to 16 with complex needs including autism, speech and language difficulties. The skaters pushed-off ……»
added to the website on Jul 29, 2011
More than sixty volunteers worked flat out for 10 days – often in searing summer sun – to successfully complete the mural painting project at Braunton skate bowl. Led by artist Conor Wilson, young volunteers, staff from Devon Youth Services and the Museum of British Surfing, parents and members of the surfing and skating communities ……»
added to the website on Jul 22, 2011
We’re stoked that the mural painting project with young people is now getting underway at Braunton skate bowl. Last night youth volunteers from Braunton Youth Centre, along with staff from Devon Youth Services, ourselves and other volunteers, joined artist Conor Wilson to sketch out the new designs on the walls. The work is funded by ……»
added to the website on Feb 04, 2011
Volunteers from the Museum of British Surfing spent Wednesday afternoon litter picking at Braunton skate bowl. The team worked for more than two hours filling 10 sacks of rubbish from the site in the village centre and took them to the recycling centre in Barnstaple. A spokesman said: “Braunton Bowl is really popular, but it’s ……»
added to the website on Oct 09, 2010
We’re working flat out at the moment putting together the design & build contracts for our new exhibition & event space at The Yard in Braunton, finalising all the legal stuff and getting stuck in to some serious fundraising to add to our existing Leader 4 grant. So while we’re bashing away at the laptop ……»
added to the website on Sep 15, 2010
Work is set begin to create the UK’s first surfing museum following confirmation that a £250,000 core funding package and building has been out together. The Museum of British Surfing, the national registered charity, will be based in Braunton, North Devon and will open soon. The museum has a vast collection of surfboards and memorabilia ……»
added to the website on Sep 06, 2010
The skies may have been leaden, the rain driving, but the main ingredients of pumping waves and stoked competitors kept the chill at bay and delivered a truly wonderful & typically British seaside day of surf and smiles. Jack Johns wowed the crowd with his accomplished ply riding to be crowned 8th World Bellyboard Champion ……»
added to the website on Jul 19, 2010
The Museum of British Surfing is on target to open in North Devon, following the news that its major grant application has been approved and an agreement reached on a building. The funding through Leader 4 will allow the museum to start recruiting staff from October this year, begin work to design new exhibitions, and ……»
added to the website on Jul 15, 2010
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Dick Pearce, who shaped traditional wooden surfboards in North Devon for the last fifty years. Thousands of British surfers got their first start on one of Dick’s famous ‘surf riders’, and it’s a fitting tribute to him that they’re now going through a revival ……»
added to the website on Jul 09, 2010
Britain’s surfing history always continues to delight and surprise – just check out the two photos from our archives with this story of surfers in the mid 1920s. In a snapshot it shows how much has changed over the last century, but again how little. You can tell they’re stoked to be surfers, proud of ……»
added to the website on Jun 02, 2010
We are stoked to launch our new branding and website for the Museum of British Surfing – part of our development work funded by Leader 4. We hope our new identity will let the world’s surf community know how proud we of our surfing and heritage here in Great Britain. The emphasis on the ‘wave’ ……»