Sport and Leisure
Mortimer has several senior football teams including Mortimer FC and Victoria Arms Reserves FC as well as two youth football teams; Mortimer Stingers and Mortimer Hornets.
Mortimer FC is currently in the Reading Football League Senior Division, in tier 11 of the football pyramid. Mortimer has won the League four times; in 1993-4, 1994-5, 1996-7 and 2001-02.
Mortimer has amateur cricket and tennis clubs, cubs, scouts, girl guides and brownies clubs as well as the Mortimer Dramatic Society. A community centre was completed in the autumn of 2009, which is used as a cricket pavilion. The fairground is also used for travelling funfares.
On taking over from Sewards Supermarket, Budgens also took over the tradition of arranging the annual 'fun run', a 10 kilometre race around the village, which generally takes place on the last Sunday of September.
In 2013 a group of volunteers set up MortimerMusicLIVE. It aims to promote live music by and for the village. The group runs events most months in local venues and lays on a festival on the Fairground in the summer, for 2013 being on June 15.
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