Abbots Bromley Sports Association (ABSA) is a registered charity borne out of a vision by villagers, to provide a beautiful, 13 acre, sports and recreational space to facilitate football, cricket, tennis and netball for residents of Abbots Bromley and the surrounding areas.
The Reader Organisation works to bring about social change by sharing great literature, making it possible for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to engage with reading, improve wellbeing and build community. Through their ‘Get Into Reading’ project, where prose and poetry are read aloud in groups that meet each week, The Reader Organisation brings the pleasure of great literature to people of all ages across the UK. They have found that shared reading provides an appealing and holistic service to those most in need - the elderly, people suffering from mental ill-health, offenders, looked-after children - enabling them to develop the emotional apparatus to improve their personal happiness and social functioning. The Reader Organisation is an independent national charity. Its head office is in Liverpool and they have projects running across the North West, North East, London, the South West, Scotland and North Wales. They work with local health, education and social care authorities, as well as library services, community organisations, care home providers and the criminal justice sector to deliver over 200,000 hours of reading each year. Their Read to Lead training course has also enabled over 700 people (from nurses and librarians, to fire fighters and probation officers) to deliver shared reading groups in their part of the country.
Venture Outdoors offers more than 400 outdoor recreation programs to the public each year, from cross country skiing and snowshoeing, to hiking, biking, and more. We also operate three locations of Kayak Pittsburgh, providing kayak rentals throughout the summer in Pittsburgh.