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Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session; less games this week, just the three, but still 32 players involved across the 8pm and 9pm sessions. We’re back again Thursday trialling the extra day, with one game that is currently fully booked – we can consider adding a second pitch if there’s enoughContinue reading “REGISTRATION OPEN FOR NEXT WEEKS SESSIONS”

Some of our regular players represented Community Kickabout last night in a “proper” game of football last night, Friday 18th November 2022. Having organised small-sided games for over two years now, this was our first 90 minute 11-a-side game. Our opponents were SDS, a great bunch of lads who visited from Switzerland to compete inContinue reading “FRIENDLY WIN FOR FIRST 11-A-SIDE GAME”

Apologies to those of you who played in the 9pm games in the cage last night, we had a slow start and disjointed games – some players didn’t turn up or were late and we had to make some last minute changes to plan. If you can’t make it to a session please keep usContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR NEXT WEEKS GAMES”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, which was our 96th session since we launched just over two years ago and took our total number of games up to 200! We’re very grateful for everyone’s participation which has led to the success and growth of our football initiative. This week we hadContinue reading “THURSDAY GAME ADDED TO NEXT WEEKS SESSIONS”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session. Despite the start of winter bringing our darkest and wettest session of the year so far, it was our biggest ever with 60 players involved across five game – 6-a-side for the ladies and two 6-a-side, 5-a-side and 7-a-side for the men. The second halfContinue reading “BOOKING OPEN FOR OUR NEXT LADIES AND MENS GAMES”

We’re making a small change to the cost of participating in Community Kickabout, starting from our 7th November 2022 session. We pay to use the services of an online booking platform for players to register for our weekly games and we also incur charges on every transaction… we’re on track to pay out £1,200 annually,Continue reading “CHANGES TO PARTICIPATION FEES”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session; three games for the men with 6-a-side at 8pm, then 6 and 8-a-side at 9pm; a bit of a wet one for the 8pm game but still three enjoyable and well competed matches. We had 5-a-side for the Ladies at 8pm; we needed to adjustContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR NEXT WEEKS GAMES”

We’re looking at the possibility of running an extra session for Over 30’s Men at 8pm on Thursdays, initially for a trial period. Our current 8pm Monday games for the Over 30’s Men is always quickly fully booked and there are players regularly on the standby list who aren’t getting opportunities to play. Adding extraContinue reading “REGISTER INTEREST IN THURSDAY GAMES”

In October 2022, two years on since we launched Community Kickabout, we conducted our second annual feedback request for our most regular participants. This was with the aim of us being able to ensure our sessions are achieving our objectives and to identify areas for improvement. We’re grateful for the honest feedback and very happyContinue reading “RESULTS OF OUR FEEDBACK QUESTIONNAIRE”

We recognised World Mental Health Day on 10th October 2022, which coincided with our weekly Monday night football session, by raising funds for Herts Mind, who deliver essential mental health support in Hertfordshire, providing a diverse range of services from seven Wellbeing Centres and other venues across all ten districts of the county. Funded locally,Continue reading “FUNDRAISING SESSION SUPPORTS MENTAL HEALTH CHARITY”