Ryan Swain (presenter)

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Ryan Swain
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Swain DJin at an event in 2019
Born (1990-02-24) 24 February 1990 (age 31)
Malton, North Yorkshire
NationalityBritish
EducationNorton College, Scarborough TEC
OccupationPresenter, DJ, Artist, Philanthropist, Activist
Years active10 Years
Known forPresenter
Spouse(s)Crystal Barquinha [1]
Children2
AwardsNEA People's Choice Award
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Ryan Swain (24 February 1990) is an English television and radio presenter, DJ, motivational speaker, philanthropist, comedian, skateboarder and artist.[2][3][4][5][6] He was born in Malton, North Yorkshire, England.[7][8][9]

He is known for hosting live events and festivals nationwide. He was runner-up for the Yorkshire Media Personality of the Year Award in the Yorkshire Choice Awards, losing out to ITV's Gaynor Barnes.[10][11] Swain currently presents his Party Mix Show every Saturday night on YorkMix Radio.[12] He formerly presented The Saturday night show on York's Minster FM[13] which is now Greatest Hits Radio and Saturday Afternoon on Coast & County Radio.

Career[]

He started his career a resident host at Flamingo Land Resort. Hosting the parks Party in the park concerts when they first started. He has hosted for Clubland at the Clubland Weekender at Blackpool Pleasure Beach[14] and Clubland On The Beach[15] event at Redcars Majuba Beach[15] supporting Cascada, Basshunter, Scooter, The Venga Boys, Ben Nicky, DJ Sammy, Sash!, Ultrabeat, N-Trance, Lasgo, Special D. and Micky Modelle.[16]

In 2018 he hosted The Only Fools and Horses Annual Convention which came to Hull for the first time.[17] Swain was on hand to interview the cast of the show.[17]

In February 2020 Swain hosted for multi platinum, west coast rapper The Game at Rainton Arena in Houghton Le Spring. After the show he was invited backstage to meet him.[18]

In March 2020 he went on a UK tour with the newly formed supergroup Boyz On Block[19] consisting of 90's boy band members Abz Love, Dane Bowers, Shane Lynch and Ben Ofoedu hosting for them across Mecca Bingo halls around the country.[20][21]

During the lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic Swain hosted his own version of the popular TV gameshow Play Your Cards Right[22] online which was initially set up to entertain NHS staff and keyworkers.[23][24] He would broadcast daily on Instagram live and be joined by a different celebrity guest everyday some of the special guests included Michael Barrymore, Jenny Powell, Natasha Hamilton, Cascada, Antony Costa, Lee Ryan, Marcel Somerville, Jorgie Porter, Tamer Hassan and Keith Duffy on his show.[25]

Personal life[]

He is from Malton, North Yorkshire. Swain had to have major heart surgery at the age of 4 to save his life due to cure a Patent Ductus Arteriosus which is a condition in which a structure called the ductus arteriosus, normal in fetal life, remains into infancy and onwards, when it should have disappeared.[9]

He did his schooling from Norton Community Primary School and later he did his secondary education from Norton College. He was expelled from school at the age of 15 due to his ADHD and behaviour.[9] After school he went on to study musical theatre and drama at Westwood Performing Arts campus at Yorkshire Coast College, in Scarborough.

He is a vegan and has been since 2020.[26] Swain is a father, he has identical twin daughters Ivy-Kay and Isla-Yasmin who were born in April 2015. He is a visual artist.[27] A piece of his artwork titled "Carnivore Of Colours" was entered in to the Ashurst Emerging Art Prize 2021 in London.[28][29] In March 2021 it was announced he was a finalist in the Uni-ball Posca Artist Of The Year Awards.[30][31]

Skateboarding[]

Swain is a skateboarding enthusiast.[32] In May 2012 he skateboarded a record breaking 54.4 miles in 5 hours raising money and awareness for a charity called Louby's Lifeline.[33][34]

In March 2021 a global campaign was set up by Swain in a bid to repair and save the "iconic" half-pipe at his local skate-park.[35][36] Appealing to the two town councils that co-run the skate park on Norton Road in Malton to invest in repairing other parts of the local amenity, which is "in a state of disrepair."[36] He also managed to get famous skateboarder Tony Hawk, Danny Way, Bucky Lasek and Pro BMX star Jamie Bestwick to support the campaign.[37][38][39]

The ramp is one of only nine of its kind in the UK and it is the only one in the north of England which is outdoors and free to use.[40]

In June 2021 Swain and his campaigners led a team of volunteers to the skatepark to carry out works which they had already been given permission to carry out by Norton Town Council by vote at their last meeting.[41] Members of the scheme which was named #RescueTheRamp, successfully stripped back the structure in preparation for a sanding down and repainting refurbishment in the next stage of the project.[42][43] Swain managed to secure a major sponsorship deal with Habito mortgage brokers for £15,000 they were also the sponsor of Team GB in Skateboarding at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games.[44][45]

The second phase of the scheme, which would see work carried out to resurface the structure, was rejected by the council on 19 July, prompting outrage from campaigners.[46]

The town council voted five-four against the project, allowing community activists to rebuild the equipment, citing health and safety concerns, despite Habito offering to pay £15,000 of the cost in return for a sponsorship deal. Councillors concluded the meeting by threatening to call the police on protesters, only to find themselves at the center of an international media storm involving the skateboarding community.[47]

A petition was set up by Swain to help save the regeneration of the Malton, and Norton skatepark, following uncertainty about the plans going ahead.[48] In August 2021 the skatepark was temporarily closed due to concerns about the condition of some of the equipment on the park.[49]

In December 2021 Swain was asked to meet Keane Duncan to discuss supporting a motion which was getting submitted to Ryedale District Council calling for councillors to support Norton Town Council to reopen the skate park and renovate the half pipe. It was due to be discussed at a full council meeting (Thursday, 2 December) but was cancelled hours before the meeting was set to take place due to Covid-19 concerns.[50]

If successful, it would see Ryedale District Council provide a grant of up to £50,000 to Norton Town Council, which manages the facility.[51]

ADHD & Mental Health Awareness Campaigning[]

Swain is also a Mental health campaigner, advocate and fundraiser. He has Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and has campaigned for more awareness of the condition.[52] when he was 18 he was diagnosed with the disorder.[53][54] Since his diagnosis he has focused on raising both money and awareness and creating content and videos about ADHD and its effects across social media and has racked up over 50,000 shares and three million views his videos on his Facebook and YouTube.

In March 2017 he was a special guest on The Chrissy B Show to speak about ADHD and how he had channelled it into his career as a comedian and entertainer.[55]

During ADHD Awareness Month in October 2021 he announced that he was planning a countrywide motivational tour to raise awareness of ADHD.[56] The tour, called 'ADHD & Me', is mainly aimed at young people. Swain is sharing his personal story, as well as encouraging others to share theirs: appealing to schools, universities, arts centre's and youth clubs both locally and nationally.[57]

Swain's brother Trent is Autistic a neurodevelopmental disorder which he sometimes sees behavioural traits within himself.

Charity work[]

In December 2019 he raised more than £1,750 for the York charity SASH and Simon On The Streets in Leeds by re-enacting a rough sleep.[58][59] He also sold personal artwork, spending 24 hours on the streets without life's luxuries, authentically portraying what sleeping rough is like.[60]

During the pandemic he live streaming events of[61] his entertainment and DJ sets across charity pages and groups on Facebook helped to raise over £20,000 for NHS Charities Together.[62][63][64]

Swain was once a youth worker.[65] He has taken part in various fundraising events for the charity Louby's Lifeline which is a charity supporting Brain Tumour Research and Children with Cancer. He has also organised and taken part in The Fully Monty and skateboarded from Malton to Scarborough for charity.[66]

In July 2007 Swain was one of ten youths worldwide crowned a Huggable Hero with Build-A-Bear Workshop. They received more than 1,300 nominations for the fourth annual search for Huggable Heroes, a program that rewards kids for their outstanding acts of generosity and volunteerism and encourages other kids to do the same.[67] He won his title and prize for his philanthropy from a young age.[68]

Awards[]

  • Huggable Hero Award - Build A Bear Workshop - Winner (2007)
  • Phoenix Newspaper Award for People's Choice - Winner[69][70] (2018 and 2020)
  • Yorkshire Gig Guide Grassroots Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution - Winner[71] (2018)
  • National Choice Award -Winner[72] (2019)
  • NEA People's Choice Award - Winner (2020)
  • Yorkshire Media Personality Of The Year - Nomination[73] (2018)
  • Posca Artist Of The Year - Finalist (2021)
  • NEA National Choice Award - Finalist (2021)

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