Seaside Siren Roller Girls are based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex and are the first and only bouting roller derby team in South Essex.
The Seaside Siren Roller Girls was founded in November 2009 by General Leigh, Geek Le Chic, Mother Mercy, Wilma Breakbone, Wham Paige, & Hell de Jour. The founders had previously skated with another derby outfit, but they quickly realised there was nothing like it in their local area and wanted to bring the sport closer to home.
SSRG skaters come from all walks of life; they’re professionals, mothers, students, and wives from all ethnicities and all backgrounds. The league practices together every week, with all skill levels being encouraged and catered for. All skaters are also committed to educating themselves about derby and practising on their own several times throughout the week, whether it be on skates or off.
Although not currently a member of Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), Flat-Track Roller Derby’s most prestigious governing body, part of the SSRG 5 year plan is to become an apprentice league and subsequently a full member of WFTDA. For this reason SSRG strictly follows WFTDA rules of play and every member of SSRG must pass the WFTDA Minimum Skills practical, endurance, and theory exams in order to be eligible for interleague scrimmaging and bouts.
Like most other roller derby leagues around the world, the Seaside Siren Roller Girls are an amateur roller derby league that is run on a not-for-profit basis. We are 100% female skater owned and operated and the derby motto ‘for the skaters, by the skaters’ runs through the heart of everything we do.
SSRG also supports local charities close to it’s members’ hearts, and endeavours to donate a proportion of proceeds from SSRG fundraising events to these deserving organisations.
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Mission
“Our mission is to support and train our members to a high standard, and provide them with the tools and knowledge they need to be the best they can be within the league as well as their own personal lives. We empower our skaters so that they may take responsibility for their own accomplishments by managing their own fitness, knowledge, and their contribution to the league’s success. We endeavour to take an active role in supporting our community through volunteer work and fundraising, and place particular importance on safety by ensuring our members have the required skills and equipment to be as safe as possible, and to play safely with others.”
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If you would like more information about roller derby in general, please take a look at our What’s Roller Derby? page.
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