Coaches can now access participant care and safeguarding information directly in the Abler app. View medical details, support needs, and emergency contacts instantly.

Care & Safeguarding Information Now in Abler App | Abler

We're excited to announce that coaches can now access care and safeguarding information directly in the Abler app, ensuring they have essential participant details at their fingertips during every session.

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Care & Safeguarding Information Now Available in the Abler App

Since launching our new shop experience, we've been impressed by how quickly organisations have embraced the customisation features to create unique booking experiences.

Abler Shop in Action: How Organisations Are Making It Their Own

These are just a few examples of the many ways organisations are utilising the new shop features:

Creating Visual Variety: Sunderland's Foundation of Light 

Foundation of Light is using different images for each program to help participants instantly identify activities. Whether it's showing the specific age group in action or highlighting the venue, each program card tells its own story while maintaining brand consistency.

Brand-First Design: Sheffield Wednesday FC Community Programme 

Sheffield Wednesday FC Community Programme has gone all-in on brand colours, creating a bold, unified look across their entire shop. Using strong club colours for program cards while keeping supporting elements neutral creates a professional, cohesive experience that's unmistakably theirs.

Aldershot is combining both strategies brilliantly by using distinct red branding for their Shots Foundation programs while applying blue club colours to their Academy offerings. This creates clear visual separation between different program types while maintaining professional presentation throughout.

Comprehensive Program Display: Norwich City Community Sports Foundation 

Norwich City Community Sports Foundation showcases the power of the new filtering system with their extensive program range. From Football Development and Soccer Skill Centres to Disability programs and Girls United, their shop demonstrates how organisations can effectively present diverse offerings while maintaining easy navigation through clear categories and visual organisation.

These are just four examples among many creative approaches we're seeing across the platform. The new filtering options are proving particularly valuable for organisations with diverse programs. Participants can now quickly filter by program type, age group, and location, making it easier to find exactly what they're looking for among dozens of options.

The ability to pin featured programs at the top means important offerings or new launches get the visibility they deserve, while standard programs remain easily accessible below.

Ready to customise your shop? Your participants will love the difference.

Some of the UK’s most high-profile football club charities including the Chelsea Foundation, Newcastle United Foundation, Sunderland’s Foundation of Light, and the Norwich City Foundation have moved their operations to Abler, the all-in-one platform that is transforming community sport delivery.

Leading Football Club Community Programmes Switch to Abler to Power Service, Data and Strategy

From the Premier League to the Championship and National League, football charities are increasingly choosing Abler to unify bookings, communication, payments, and reporting. The result: better customer service, real time registers, advanced data capture and live reporting that allows strategic decision-making and unlocks potential sponsor and funder support.

Modern booking systems with instant confirmations, reminders and in-app updates all create a smoother experience for participants and families.

Centralising scheduling, communication, and attendance tracking. Abler allows staff to RSVP to events with a single tap, receive real-time updates via in-app messaging and push notifications, and enables administrators to monitor attendance in real time.

Every attendance record, payment, safeguarding note, and outcome is securely stored in one place replacing fragmented spreadsheets.

Real-time dashboards track reach, engagement and outcomes, helping charities target underserved communities, optimise delivery, and evidence impact to sponsors and funders.

Chelsea Foundation has rolled Abler out across social inclusion, education, and sports activities, enabling a unified customer journey and consistent data for all programmes.

Newcastle United Foundation uses Abler to streamline its vast programme portfolio and gain clearer insight into the difference they are making across the North East.

Sunderland’s Foundation of Light has adopted Abler for bookings, communications and payments linking participant journeys from registration to reporting outcomes.

Norwich City Foundation operates its programmes through Abler, streamlining customer service and data collection while enabling clear, evidence-based reporting to partners and funders.

By moving to Abler, football charities are replacing admin-heavy processes with a single, scalable system. This allows staff to focus on delivering programmes while management gains a clear, evidence-backed view of impact, a vital advantage when securing partnerships and funding in a competitive environment.

Abler is the leading platform for community sport delivery, helping clubs and charities manage bookings, payments, communications and reporting in one secure, easy-to-use system. By connecting operations to data-driven insight, Abler empowers organisations to deliver more impact, more efficiently.

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Norwich City Community Sports Foundation partners with Abler's digital platform to streamline operations, improve impact measurement, and better serve tens of thousands across East Anglia through sport, education, and health programmes.

Norwich City CSF Partners with Abler to Enhance Community Programme Delivery

Markus Maute, CEO of Abler (right), and Freddie Powell-Tuck, Head of Insights & Innovation at Norwich City Community Sports Foundation (left), mark the beginning of their new partnership at Carrow Road.

The Norwich City Community Sports Foundation, one of the largest and most respected club foundations in the UK, has partnered with leading digital platform Abler to transform how it delivers and manages its extensive range of programmes across East Anglia.

The Foundation supports tens of thousands of people each year through sport, education, health, and inclusion initiatives. With operations spanning dozens of venues, hundreds of sessions, and thousands of participants, the Foundation will now benefit from Abler’s all-in-one system to increase efficiency, reduce administrative burden, and improve visibility across its delivery.

Abler will provide the digital infrastructure to manage everything from grassroots football and school education to inclusive sport, mentoring, and holiday camps—bringing clarity, consistency, and connectivity across all aspects of its work.

Staff and Volunteer Management – enabling the Foundation to schedule, deploy, and monitor coaches and facilitators across multiple locations and programmes.

Booking and Registration – offering a seamless and user-friendly experience for families and individuals registering for high-demand activities.

Centralised Communication – improving engagement with parents, staff, and partners via one secure, accessible platform.

High-Quality Data Collection and Reporting – capturing real-time attendance and participant data—including ethnicity, gender, age, and postcode—to ensure programmes are representative of local communities and meeting inclusion goals. The system also enables robust impact measurement to evaluate outcomes and support funding and strategic decisions.

Markus Mani, CEO of Abler, discussing the importance of sports in community at a recent event at the Nest

From regional player development centres to health interventions and school outreach, the Foundation will now operate through a single, unified digital system—ensuring that every session, coach, and participant is supported with precision.

About Norwich City Community Sports Foundation


The Norwich City Community Sports Foundation is the official charity partner of Norwich City Football Club. As one of the largest club foundations in the UK, it delivers life-changing programmes that use the power of sport to drive outcomes in education, health, inclusion, and personal development across Norfolk and Suffolk.

Abler is an integrated digital platform designed for organisations in sport, education, and community development. Its tools for bookings, staff management, communications, and impact reporting help teams reduce admin, strengthen engagement, and deliver more inclusive and measurable outcomes.

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