Identity and territory

Villa Angaran San Giuseppe is a historic monument in Bassano, today the only Venetian Villa used for social inclusion and citizenship development. It houses projects and structures for different people, whose vulnerabilities and possibilities animate a meeting place open to the city, promoting the value of diversity and developing a widespread well-being.

Founded in 1979, this cooperative's mission is to collect goods, preparing them to be reused thanks to their 4 shops and wholesale centers, or prepare them for correct recycling. The cooperative also handles education and communication towards citizens through events and activities. To testify our committment in "reducing, reusing and recycling" every resource, we have chosen to donate our unsold articles to the Cooperativa, so that they can live a second life!

The Spazio Donna anti-violence centre is responsible for thwarting and opposing all forms of discrimination along with physical, psychological, sexual or economic violence against women and children. Welcoming and supporting at no cost, the services include telephone reception, personal interviews, hospitality in shelters with the utmost respect for secrecy – free from discrimination.

SpazioMAMMA helps families during pregnancy, birth and throughout the first period as parents. It is a place to interact and participate in activities held by experts in childhood and parenting through the mutual exchange of perspectives in order to feel supported beyond the parent/child dyad. It takes a village to raise a new family.

The Nove Caritas works to promote charity and/or the aim of having people, families and communities grow with a sense of solidarity. Education for peace and globalisation, dialogue, co-responsibility are the commitments of the association operating in the Nove area with a focus on families and their needs.

The Ente Nazionale Protezione Animali (the National Animal Protection Authority) is the oldest and most important protectionist association in Italy. It conducts its activities in all sectors for the defence, welfare and protection of animals. The Bassano del Grappa division adheres to these values through voluntary work, activities conducive to the adoption, stabling and enhancement of the fauna.

"Noi Come Nemo" is an association formed by families in the Nove area with special children, who just like the little fish Nemo want to live their lives. We go to schools to offer theatrical readings, seminars, testimonies and much more, to foster awareness and facilitate the inclusion of all special people – being the way we prefer to define the world of disability.

Since 1912, the Corpo Nazionale Giovani Esploratori Italiani (the National Young Italian Explorers Corps) together with the Bassano division since 1997, educates young people on life in the community, out in the open air, playing games and going on adventures in groups with a focus on secularism, coeducation, democracy and civic commitment – values that allow youths to develop skills necessary for everyday living.

Libera was born in 1995 as a network for social justice, the search for truth, the protection of rights, transparent politics, a democratic legality with equality, a living and shared memory along with an active citizenship. E!State Liberi! organises training camps in order to reach third sector realities that socially reuse assets confiscated from the various mafias.

The club was born for sport, football, back in 1909, with the goal of the incomparable joy of a sports win, the realization of the person, the construction of an "I" based on sharing, team play, team harmony. Harmonious training and growth embrace not only what you live in the football field, but it becomes an evolving project.