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Update: due to some of our sessions being impacted due to lower numbers over half term, we’ll extend this competition to include the Monday 3rd, Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th November sessions. To celebrate FIVE years of Kickabout, we’re running a competition for a fortnight from Monday 20th to Thursday 30th October 2025, with fourContinue reading “WIN A VOUCHER IN OUR BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY”

We’ve temporarily suspended new members registering due to backlogs of players trying to book on to our sessions – we’re awaiting feedback from Hemel FC about the prospect of booking extra sessions at their facilities. Please click here to email us and request contact once we reopen registrations. This is the first time in theContinue reading “NEW MEMBERSHIPS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED”

We recently increased the size our Wednesday 9pm session, which runs on Hemel Hempstead Town FC’s main pitch. We can make use of some or all of the pitch – we’re reviewing this on a weekly basis depending on interest, so if game you want to play in is fully booked, please make sure you’reContinue reading “FREE GAME IN BIGGER WEDNESDAY SESSION”

Latest news and events from March 2024. We played 33 games of football in 13 sessions – we’ve now passed 650 games in total since we kicked off in 2020. While our first session of April will be out 250th! Thank you to everyone who contributes making this community initiative a success. Here’s the otherContinue reading “MARCH ROUND UP”

At Hemel Hempstead Town FC’s home game against Hampton and Richmond on Saturday, a presentation was made to Community Kickabout volunteer session organiser Dave Bradbury, who was nominated as Hemel FC’s Premier League Community Captain. The Premier League launched the “More than a game” campaign to showcase how its wide-ranging investment into all levels ofContinue reading “PREMIER LEAGUE AWARD FOR KICKABOUTS DAVE”

This week’s participants can pick up a free Women’s health manual at our sessions. The 36 page full colour A5 booklet is full of simple, practical tips that will improve the health of pretty much anyone. This isn’t just for our women’s group, our men are welcome to take a copy for family or friends.Continue reading “WOMENS HEALTH MANUAL GIVEAWAY”

We have purchased some training equipment for our members to use (restricted to block-booked players only at this stage), to encourage people to be active outside of our sessions. The use of this equipment isn’t necessarily restricted to the use of only our members, if you know of groups or clubs that could make useContinue reading “EQUIPMENT HIRE AVAILABLE TO OUR PLAYERS”

Regular Kickabout participants can access the extra service of accessing mental health eBooks! We have a 12 month licence to access Mind’s eBook guides to supporting good mental health. The eBooks give an introduction to a wide range of mental health topics, that we hope you might find useful for supporting your own wellbeing orContinue reading “ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT AND RESOURCES”

We have secured the brilliant facilities at the Focus Community Arena, home of National League South side Hemel Hempstead Town FC, on Sunday 12th May 2024 for Mind Games, a family friendly charity fundraising football day. There will be matches for both Community Kickabout’s Women and Men’s teams; our Women’s opponents will be the HertsContinue reading “DATE SET FOR CHARITY GAMES”

It’s International Men’s Day ♂️ To support them theme “Making a positive difference to the wellbeing and lives of men and boys”, we have a batch of Man Manual‘s to give everyone who plays in our games this week. One man in five will die before he reaches 65, two in five before the ageContinue reading “MAN MANUAL GIVEAWAY THIS WEEK”