A narrowboat holiday on the UK canals and rivers is the perfect way to explore the beautiful countryside of England, Wales & Scotland. Enjoyment of the holiday depends upon the sustainability of the canals, the towpaths and the countryside itself.

Below are detailed some of the things our employees are involved in and have asked us to support in 2007.

Supporting
Bromsgrove Rugby Football Club	A full set of playing shirts for the Junior team
Guide Dogs for the Blind	Doggy Paddle' 19 Miles from Leamington to Stratford in a canoe
Tardebigge First School	Three boats for a half-day trip to school for year two.
Race for Life	Cancer research
Money for Electric Wheelchair	Vouchers donated for raffle to raise money for Rachel Wood who has cerebal palsy.
Mikron Theatre Company (Canal Based)	Donation for performing at the Weighbridge Pub
Birchfield School	Holiday voucher for auction prize
Ten Point Cruise	Sponsoring waterways awareness
Inland Waterways Association	Prize holiday for Annual Festival

At ABC Leisure Group we are proud to endeavour to reduce our impact on the environment. We consider all aspects of our operations and are undergoing a process of environmental impact minimisation throughout the organisation.

A narrowboat holiday is a very low carbon holiday and we try to ensure we improve this even further with environmentally friendly activities.

• All our holiday brochures, documents and information are available on the UK Boat Hire website electronically. The information booklets that are sent out with holiday confirmation are recycled (hirers are invited to return the booklets to the marinas at the end of the holiday for recycling ).

• Our hire boats are fitted with long life oil filters requiring only one oil change each year, reducing waste oil quantities.

• We use efficient modern diesel engines.

• A plentiful supply of hot water produced as a by-product from the cooling system of the engine.

• Boats are all provided with Ecover washing up liquid and our cleaners use a Diversy Leaver cleaning system. These reduced packaging waste and are completely and immediately biodegradable which has minimum effect on aquatic life.

Our boat building operations use as many materials as possible from recycled and sustainable sources and we try to fit low energy equipment where possible. We are able to build Eco hulls which limit wash that erodes banks and increases fuel efficiency.

ABC Leisure Group donate a percentage of the profits each year to support it's staff in charitable works and local activities.

We endeavour to recycle as much of our waste as is practically possible and constantly look for ways of improving our impact on the environment.

Narrow boats … … wide horizons