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Thank you to everyone who joined in Monday’s session. Thank you to everyone who joined in tonight’s session, a busy night with 52 players involved in 4, 5 and 6-a-side games across the 8pm and 9pm slots. The Ladies game was a bit of a challenging session as some late withdrawals left us with justContinue reading “BOOKING OPEN FOR OUR NEXT GAMES”

Thank you to everyone who joined in Monday’s session. Four games in total across the 8pm and 9pm slots, with 52 players joining in our Ladies and Men’s games. Good to see some newcomers too, hope to see you again at upcoming sessions. Booking is now open for next week. Next week’s session is duringContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR NEXT WEEKS SESSIONS”

Next week’s session is during the same week as International Women’s Day and we’re going to celebrate the continued development of our Ladies only sessions by allowing players to register for free! We’re very grateful to the support of local company Sterling Accounting Solutions Ltd, who are sponsoring this session so we can provide thisContinue reading “FREE GAME FOR LADIES NEXT WEEK”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s sessions. Monday was a busy night with five games in total across the 8pm and 9pm slots. It was good to see the Ladies return to action after a break last week and we had a well competed game of 6-a-side. Thanks to those who wereContinue reading “JOIN IN OUR UPCOMING GAMES”

Thank you to everyone who joined in tonight’s session. We had three games, no ladies game tonight so just three games for the men – 6-a-side at 8pm then 6 and 8-a-side 9pm. Booking is now open for next week. This Thursday’s session is currently fully booked, but we have a standby list in caseContinue reading “REGISTER FOR NEXT WEEKS GAMES”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this Monday’s session, with four games played across the 8pm and 9pm slots with both Ladies and Over 30’s Men games. Another cold night, but still busy – three well competed games of 6-a-side and an 8-a-side. This Thursday’s session is currently fully booked, but we have aContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR NEXT WEEKS SESSIONS”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this Monday’s session, with four games played across the 8pm and 9pm slots with both Ladies and Over 30’s Men games. Another cold night, but still busy – three games of 6-a-side and an 8-a-side. This Thursday’s session is currently fully booked, but we have a standby list.Continue reading “JOIN IN OUR NEXT SESSION”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, with four games played across the 8pm and 9pm slots. It was a cold night, but they were all well competed matches. We’re back again next week, plus there is still space available for this Thursday, booking is now open on our website. Upcoming events:Continue reading “BOOKING OPEN FOR UPCOMING SESSIONS”

Thank you to everyone who joined in our first session of 2023 last night, five games played across the 8pm and 9pm slots. It was great to see so many new faces joining in this week and we hope to see you all again at upcoming sessions. Apologies to those of you who joined theContinue reading “REGISTER NOW FOR NEXT WEEKS GAMES”

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had had a great Christmas and New Year… we’re looking forward to getting our weekly football sessions back underway! Booking is now open for the first games of 2023. We’re continuing our trial period of Thursday games (for Men) and will commit to a long term booking of theContinue reading “BOOKING OPEN FOR FIRST GAMES OF 2023”

We’re now in the third week of trialling extra Over 30’s Men football sessions on Thursdays, to provide extra opportunities to play in our friendly small-sided games for those who can’t make it on Mondays (or who just want to play an extra game!). Click here for the booking form for the 8pm game onContinue reading “THURSDAY SESSIONS CONTINUE”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session; four games altogether, with 6-a-side for the men at 8pm as well as 5-a-side for the ladies, then 6-a-side and a 8-a-side at 9pm for the men. For the ladies 5-a-side game, it was well played and there were a lot of goals. It wasContinue reading “BOOKING OPEN FOR NEXT WEEKS GAMES”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, five games in total with 6-a-side for the men and ladies at 8pm, then two 5-a-sides and a 7-a-side at 9pm. All enjoyable and well competed games. For the ladies, we had a well competed 6-a-side game. Thank you to everyone who joined the standbyContinue reading “JOIN IN NEXT WEEKS GAMES, LADIES AND OVER 30s MEN”

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”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, a busy night of four games, with ladies and over 30’s men in action. The ladies were a bit uneven at 5 v’s 6-a-side, but we made it work and it was an eagerly played match. Thank you to those ladies who joined the standbyContinue reading “JOIN IN OUR NEXT SESSION, BOOKING NOW OPEN”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, a busy night of four games, with ladies and over 30’s men in action. This was the two-year anniversary of Community Kickabout and it has been fantastic to see the growth from one game of 5-a-side to multiple games across two time slots. This week’sContinue reading “LADIES AND OVER 30 MENS FOOTBALL, BOOK NOW”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, with ladies and mens games – 50 players in total joined in this week. There three games for the Over 30’s Men – 6-a-side at 8pm then 6-a-side and 8-a-side at 9pm. It was good to see a Ladies game back in action after aContinue reading “PLAY NEXT WEEK IN CHARITY FUNDRAISER”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, with three games for the Over 30’s Men – 6-a-side at 8pm and another two games of 6-a-side at 9pm. These were some very well competed games this week. Thank you to everyone who registered to play for the Ladies game and once again we’reContinue reading “REGISTER FOR NEXT WEEKS FOOTBALL, LADIES AND OVER 30 MENS”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, which was reduced due to the Bank Holiday but we still ran 5-a-side for the Over 30 Men at 8pm and for the men again two games of 6-a-side at 9pm. Thank you to everyone who signed up for the Ladies game, which was quicklyContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR LADIES AND OVER 30 MENS FOOTBALL”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, two games of 6-a-side and one 8-a-side for the Men, and 6-a-side for the Ladies. Please click here to access our booking page for over 30’s men, click here for the ladies session. We are delighted to have been awarded a grant from the BarclaysContinue reading “MENS AND LADIES FOOTBALL CONTINUES”

We are delighted to have been awarded a grant from the Barclays Community Football Fund, being delivered in parnership with Sported. This grant will help us commit to providing weekly football sessions to Ladies living in and around Dacorum as part of our Community Kickabout initiative. In August 2022, after running popular Men’s Over 30’sContinue reading “GRANT SUPPORTS LONG TERM COMMITMENT TO LADIES GAMES”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, a busy week with five games in total – 8pm games for the Men and Ladies and then three more men’s games at 9pm. There was a lot of enjoyable and well competed football tonight and great to hear a lot of positive feedback afterContinue reading “MENS AND LADIES FOOTBALL RETURNS NEXT WEEK”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, which was well attended despite it being a bank holiday. We played three games of 6-a-side a across the 8pm and 9pm slots, all in the cage. Booking is now open for next Monday’s 8pm and 9pm sessions – with the return of the LadiesContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR NEXT WEEKS MENS AND LADIES GAMES”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, 42 players competed in men’s and women’s games at 8pm and 9pm. For the week’s Ladies session, which was the second week of our trial, we had less players turn up than planned but the players persevered with 4-a-side; there were some tired legs asContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR BANK HOLIDAY KICKABOUT”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, with 50 players in total across games at 8pm and 9pm. We started off with 6-a-side Men’s Over 30’s and 5-a-side for our first even Ladies game, then followed that up with 6-a-side and 8-a-side for the Men’s Over 30’s at 9pm. Booking is nowContinue reading “BOOKING OPEN FOR NEXT WEEK INCLUDING EXTENDED LADIES TRIAL”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, with three games – 6-a-side at 8pm then 6-a-side and a 8-a-side at 9pm. Thanks to the players who switched sides mid-game, we sometimes have to tinker with the teams during the game in an attempt to keep the matches competitive and enjoyable. Also, asContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR NEXT WEEKS GAMES”

We’re trialling a ladies only session at 8pm, Monday 15th August 2022. Unlike our weekly Over 30’s men’s session, there won’t be age restrictions for this game. Subject to online booking to confirm availability, you can just turn up and play in our friendly games – you don’t need to rely on having enough playersContinue reading “LADIES FOOTBALL SESSION”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, a busy night with four games – 5-a-side at 8pm then two games of 5-a-side and a 7-a-side at 9pm. It was good to have some new faces join in, we hope to see you all again at upcoming sessions. Booking is now open forContinue reading “JOIN IN OUR NEXT OVER 30S FOOTBALL SESSION”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session, in particular thanks to those on the standby list who were able to fill in at short notice after some late changes of plan. In thankfully cooler conditions than last week, we played 6-a-side at 8pm, then 6 and 8-a-side at 9pm. Booking is nowContinue reading “BOOKING NOW OPEN FOR NEXT WEEKS GAMES”

With Monday’s session taking place during a heatwave, please ensure you reassess your own suitability to take part. The forecast is currently between 36° and 29° throughout the 8pm and 9pm sessions and there are well publicised warnings about the weather. Click here for the latest NHS guidance for how to cope in hot weather. OtherContinue reading “IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT MONDAYS SESSION”

Thank you to everyone who joined in this week’s session last night, it was hard work in the heat but we still had enjoyable and well competed games – 6-a-side at 8pm, then 6 and 8-a-side at 9pm. Booking is now open for next Monday’s 8pm and 9pm sessions. As usual, thank you to thoseContinue reading “WEEKLY OVER 30s FOOTBALL – GET ACTIVE WITH US”

Last night was our biggest session to date, with four games and in total 47 players taking part (3 playing both sessions) with 6-a-side at 8pm, than 5, 6 and 8-a-side at 9pm. Thank you to everyone who participated and for the continued involvement that is helping our sessions grow. Booking is now open forContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR NEXT WEEKS SESSION”

Apologies to those of you who joined the standby list this week but didn’t get the opportunity to play – we fully booked relatively quickly this week and whilst we had quite a few on standby, we just missed enough numbers to add anothet pitch. Thank you to those on the standby list that wereContinue reading “JOIN IN OUR NEXT OVER 30s FOOTBALL SESSION”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. We had three games tonight, one game of 6-a-side at 8pm then 6-a-side and 8-a-side at 9pm – some very enjoyable games tonight. Thank you everyone who joined in and thanks to those who joined the standby list and were available to fill inContinue reading “REGISTER NOW FOR NEXT WEEKS SESSION”

Each day during Men’s Health Week, we’re posting articles to raise awareness of commons health issues for men. Today: erectile dysfunction. Erection problems (or impotence) are very common, particularly in men over 40. Most men occasionally fail to get or keep an erection. This is usually caused by stress, tiredness, anxiety or drinking too muchContinue reading “MENS HEALTH WEEK: ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION”

Each day during Men’s Health Week, we’re posting articles to raise awareness of commons health issues for men. Today: diet and nutrition. Men and women share most of their DNA, however, there are some differences in what makes a diet healthiest for each. Men should have around 2,500 calories a day. Recommendations for nutrients areContinue reading “MENS HEALTH WEEK: DIET AND NUTRITION”

Each day during Men’s Health Week, we’re posting articles to raise awareness of commons health issues for men. Today: Testicular Cancer. Testicular cancer is unusual compared to other types of cancers because it tends to affect younger men who are 20 to 55 years of age. As a result, although relatively uncommon overall, testicular cancerContinue reading “MEN HEALTH WEEK: TESTICULAR CANCER”

Each day during Men’s Health Week, we’re posting articles to raise awareness of commons health issues for men. Today: mental health. “In England, around 1 in 8 men have a common mental health problem. However, men may be reluctant to seek support for their mental health or disclose mental health problems to loved ones.” –Continue reading “MEN HEALTH WEEK: MENTAL HEALTH”

We’ve joined Just Play, so you can now find our sessions and register an interest in joining in via the FA website – find.englandfootball.com. The FA Snickers Just Play gives the casual footballer a chance to just turn up to a venue and play football. Just Play is recreational football at its best – it’sContinue reading “COMMUNITY KICKABOUT JOINS JUST PLAY”

Each day during Men’s Health Week, we’re posting articles to raise awareness of commons health issues for men. Today: Prostate Cancer. Even though a man dies in the UK on average once every 45 seconds from prostrate cancer, most men are oblivious to what the prostate actually us. The prostate is a gland. It isContinue reading “MEN HEALTH WEEK: PROSTATE CANCER”

Each day during Men’s Health Week, we’re posting articles to raise awareness of commons health issues for men. Today: self-care and check-ups. On average men go to their GP half as often as women. This may in part be the reason why 100,000 men a year die prematurely. Men may feel embarrassed in seeking help,Continue reading “MEN HEALTH WEEK: SELF CARE AND CHECK UPS”

Each day during Men’s Health Week, we’re posting articles to raise awareness of commons health issues for men. Today: exercise. 67% of men are overweight or obese. This leads to a significant increase in risks for getting diabetes, chronic liver disease, coronary heart disease, and cancer. Exercising is therefore an excellent preventative measure to takeContinue reading “MEN HEALTH WEEK: EXERCISE”

Next week is Men’s Health Week; aside from using our social media and website to promote health and wellbeing, participation will be FREE in order to encourage more people to get active with us. Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. Two games tonight, a bit wet… but still well competedContinue reading “PLAY FOR FREE IN OUR NEXT OVER 30s FOOTBALL SESSION”

This year’s Men’s Health Week starts next Monday, running from 13th to the 19th June 2022. Hemel Hempstead Town FC, Tudors Supporters Club and Community Kickabout websites and social media will be used to raise awareness of Men’s Health issues. Each day during Men’s Health Week, we’ll be posting articles on our website and socialContinue reading “MENS HEALTH WEEK 2022”

Mental health charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) recognises that Football has a massive role to play in the way we deal with mental health and suicide. In partnership with Carling, CALM launched a campaign – More Than a Game; More Than a Game champions the positive role grassroots football can play in helping peopleContinue reading “MORE THAN A GAME”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. Two games tonight – 6-a-side in the cage and 8-a-side on the main pitch, thank you everyone who joined in and as usual we’re very grateful to those who joined the standby list and were able to play at short notice when we hadContinue reading “JOIN IN OUR OVER 30s FOOTBALL”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. Three games in the cage tonight. We had 6-a-side at 8pm and then 5-a-side and 6-a-side in the 9pm session, thank you everyone who joined in and thank you to those players who were flexible in either changing sessions at short notice or switchingContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR NEXT WEEKS SESSION”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. Tonight we had three well competed games – 6-a-side at 8pm and then 8-a-side and 6-a-side in the 9pm session, thank you everyone who joined in. Booking is now open for next Monday. Please click here to access our booking page.

We’re delighted to have received the “Active Dacorum” award in Dacorum Borough Council’s Community Grants Awards 2022. All organisations that received a Community Grant in 2020-21 were eligible to enter their projects for the Awards. In August 2020 we applied for a community grant in order to set up a fitness initiative for the localContinue reading “KICKABOUT RECEIVES ACTIVE DACORUM RECOGNITION”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout; for this fundraising session, the total raised between the football matches and the Spot the Ball competition is £385, which we’ll round up to £400 for our donation to CALM. Tonight we had 6-a-side at 8pm and then 8-a-side and 6-a-side in 9pm sessionContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR NEXT WEEKS SESSIONS”

REMINDER: THIS SESSION HAS A ONE-OFF PRICE INCREASE TO £10. Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout; apologies to those of you who missed out due to the late cancellation of the 8pm session – we had some late withdrawals and if left us short of players. For the 9pm sessionContinue reading “CHARITY SESSION ON MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK”

Our 9th May 2022 session coincides with Mental Health awareness week. As we’ve received grateful support from CALM through their Caring United campaign, for our 9th May session, participation fees will be increased to £10 for one week only with all proceeds donated to CALM. We’re also running a Spot the Ball competition to hopefullyContinue reading “CALM CHARITY FUNDRAISER”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout; it was the return of the 8pm session last night and in total we had one game at 8pm and three games at 9pm – our biggest session to date with 41 people playing. Booking is currently open via our website for our 8pmContinue reading “8PM AND 9PM SESSIONS ON BANK HOLIDAY”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout; two games tonight, both were well competed on main pitch, 7-a-side and 8-a-side. Apologies for the slight delay getting underway, the pitches hadn’t been set up in advance… Booking is currently open via our website for our 8pm and 9pm sessions next Monday. OurContinue reading “EXTRA 8PM SESSION RETURNS NEXT WEEK”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout; two games tonight, both were well competed in milder weather than some of us expected (maybe less layers next week… 😓), 6-a-side in the cage and 8-a-side on the main pitch. Booking is currently open via our website for our 9pm session next Monday.Continue reading “BOOK NOW FOR BANK HOLIDAY KICKABOUT”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. With no 8pm sessions in half-term it was a busy 9pm session with two games.of 5-a-side in the cage and 7-a-side on the main pitch. Those three games made it 99 games in total since we kicked off 18 months ago; we’re back atContinue reading “100 GAME MILESTONE NEXT WEEK, BOOK NOW”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. Tonight we had 6-a-side at 8pm and then a 6-a-side and 7-a-side at 9pm; thank you to all of those on the standby list who were available at short notice when there were some changes earlier on Monday. Booking is currently open via ourContinue reading “BOOK ON TO NEXT WEEKS SESSION, 9PM ONLY”

We’re very grateful to have received funding from the Hertfordshire FA aimed at supporting clubs in growing participation. The Hertfordshire FA strives to support local clubs and secured dedicated funding aimed at helping clubs to ‘Sustain, Revive and Thrive’ – alongside support from the FA’s Football Development team this will help clubs and initiatives likeContinue reading “HERTS FA FUNDING SUPPORTS THE GROWTH OF COMMUNITY KICKABOUT”

Thank you to everyone who participated in last night’s Community Kickabout. We had 6-a-side at 8pm and then a 6-a-side and 7-a-side at 9pm; thanks to the players for being flexible and switching around sides mid-games in order to ensure we’ve got fair sides and competitive matches. After last night’s session, our 58th since weContinue reading “OVER 30s FOOTBALL RETURNS TO HEMEL NEXT MONDAY”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. Once again, apologies to those on the standby list who couldn’t participate last night – we’re so close to booking a third 9pm pitch so please ensure you continue to register for the standby list if there’s no space available when you attempt toContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR NEXT WEEKS OVER 30S FOOTBALL”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. Apologies to those on the standby list who couldn’t participate last night, there just wasn’t enough for a third 9pm pitch this week. The 8pm slot quickly sold out again, but like last week it was to the detriment of the existing 9pm slots.Continue reading “GET INVOLVED IN NEXT WEEKS SESSION”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout, a wet night but otherwise some good, enjoyable and well competed games. The addition of an 8pm slot for a fourth pitch wasn’t a great success; whilst the 8pm slot itself quickly sold out, typically there wasn’t as much demand this week and itContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR OVER 30S FOOTBALL NEXT MONDAY”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. Apologies to those who joined the standby list but didn’t get an opportunity to play this week – we had a well attended session with a game of 8-a-side on the main pitch and two games of 6-a-side in the cage. We’ve had aContinue reading “8PM SLOT ADDED TO OUR WEEKLY SESSION”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout – a bit of a reduced session this week with lots of regulars having other commitments during half term but we still managed two games – 5-a-side in the cage and 8-a-side on the main pitch. Booking is now live for next week’s session.Continue reading “JOIN IN OUR NEXT MONDAY NIGHT SESSION”

Thank you to everyone who participated in last night’s Community Kickabout, our 50th session we’ve organised since we first kicked-off in October 2020; thank you all for participating and making the initiative a success. This week’s session was well competed by 40 players in total across three pitches. Booking is now live for next Monday,Continue reading “BOOK NOW FOR NEXT WEEKS OVER 30s FOOTBALL”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. This week’s session was well competed by 36 players in total across three pitches. Booking is now live for next Monday – this will be the 50th session we’ve organised since we first kicked-off in October 2020, thank you all for participating and makingContinue reading “REGISTER FOR OUR 50th SESSION”

Thank you to everyone who participated in last night’s Community Kickabout – our 50th session since we kicked off in October 2020. Thank you all for helping the initiative succeed and grow. This week’s session was well competed by 40 players in total across three pitches, two games of 6-a-side in the cage and 8-a-sideContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR OUR NEXT OVER 30S FOOTBALL SESSION”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout, a cold night on Monday but very well attended – 38 players, which makes it yet another week where we’ve ran our biggest session as we continue to grow. We played 5, 6 and 8-a-side games with lots of new faces involved – weContinue reading “SIGN UP FOR NEXT WEEKS KICKABOUT”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout; we continued the great start to the year by having our biggest session so far – we used three pitches for the first time since we started the initiative in October 2020 and had 36 players participating across two games of 5-a-side and oneContinue reading “JOIN IN OUR 17th JANUARY SESSION”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout; it was fantastic to have a fully booked session despite today being a Bank Holiday and so soon after the Christmas and New Year festivities. It was great to see so much enthusiasm to get involved and it was good to see so manyContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR OUR NEXT POPULAR MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL SESSION”

Further to our previous post that the first Community Kickabout of 2022 will be on 10th January, due to popular demand we’re returning early from the festive break with our first session taking place on Monday 3rd January 2022. We’re thankful for Hemel FC being flexible and allowing us to play on a Bank Holiday.Continue reading “EARLY RETURN FOR KICKABOUT”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s “Christmas Kickabout”. For our last session of 2021, our participants raised £230 for Hertfordshire Mind Network, which we’ll round up to £250. Our two games (one 5-a-side and one 6-a-side) were well contested, a great effort all round ahead of taking a break for a fewContinue reading “KICKABOUT RETURNS 10th JANUARY”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. We played two games of 5-a-side, well contested on a wet pitch. Booking is now live for next week’s “Christmas Kickabout” and our last session of 2021, on Monday 20th December 2021. Like last years Christmas Kickabout, we’ll do a one-off increase of theContinue reading “CHRISTMAS KICKABOUT SUPPORTING MIND”

Just a reminder to our Monday night football participants, there remains well publicised risks of catching and spreading Covid. Do not attend if you have symptoms, have tested positive for coronavirus or have been directed to isolate. We follow FA guidance on playing football during the pandemic, what measures should be considered and how toContinue reading “COMMUNITY KICKABOUT AND COVID”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. It was a well attended session with two games of 6-a-side. Booking is now live for next week’s Kickabout, on Monday 13th December 2021. Please note, our sessions have now moved to the pitches in the “cage” at the top of the Vauxhall RoadContinue reading “OVER 30s FOOTBALL ON 13th DECEMBER, BOOK NOW”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. It was a cold one and a handful of the regular players couldn’t make it, but we had two 5-a-side games that were well contested and soon warmed everyone up. Booking is now live for next week’s Kickabout, on Monday 6th December 2021. There’sContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR FIRST OVER 30s FOOTBALL OF DECEMBER”

In October 2021, one year since we launched Community Kickabout, we offered our most regular participants an opportunity to provide us with anonymous feedback. 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 veryContinue reading “POSITIVE FEEDBACK FOR OUR FOOTBALL SESSIONS”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. We had two 6-a-side games that were competitive and quick-paced – a great effort all round.. Booking is now open for next week’s Kickabout, on Monday 29th November 2021. We’ve been experiencing someContinue reading “OVER 30s FOOTBALL, BOOK NOW FOR MONDAY 29th NOV”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. Booking is now open for next week’s Kickabout, on Monday 29th November 2021. We’ve been experiencing some issues taking payment by debit/credit card payment; PayPal is preferred, however if you attempt to pay by card please ensure you reach the payment completed page. IfContinue reading “OVER 30s FOOTBALL, MONDAY 29th NOVEMBER”

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. We were joined by some newcomers again, which is great to see, with two games being played in another well attended session. Booking is now open for next week’s Kickabout, on Monday 22nd November 2021. We’ve been experiencing some issues taking payment by debit/creditContinue reading “BOOKING OPEN FOR OUR NEXT OVER 30s FOOTBALL SESSION”

Firstly, apologies to those of you on the standby list who didn’t get an opportunity to play this week – we’ve had a very busy few weeks and find ourselves in a predicament where we’ve too many players for two pitches but still a few short for a third pitch. I hope this does notContinue reading “OVER 30s FOOTBALL, BOOK NOW FOR 15th NOVEMBER”

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout; it was a busy session, well attended and two good games of football. It was good to so many new faces this week – we hope to see you again at future sessions. Booking is now live for next week’s Kickabout, on Monday 8th NovemberContinue reading “JOIN IN OUR NEXT OVER 30’S FOOTBALL SESSION”

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout; with quite a few people away or unavailable this week, we returned to the main pitch for an 8-a-side game. Booking is now live for next week’s Kickabout, on Monday 1st November 2021. We’ve been experiencing some issues taking payment by debit/credit card payment; PayPalContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR FIRST OVER 30’S SESSION OF NOVEMBER”

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout, another busy night across two pitches, more new faces and some enjoyable football. Booking is now live for next week’s Kickabout, on Monday 25th October 2021. Please note, our sessions have now moved to the pitches in the “cage” at the top of the VauxhallContinue reading “BOOKING OPEN FOR OUR NEXT OVER 30s FOOTBALL”

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout – a fantastic session for our one-year anniversary, where we hosted 27 participants across two pitches, featuring 6-a-side and 8-a-side matches. This was our biggest session to date and it was great to see so many new faces getting involved. Booking is now live forContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR OUR POPULAR MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL”

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout, another busy and we’ll contested session. Booking is now live for next week’s Kickabout, on Monday 11th October 2021. Community Kickabout is One year old next week! Since our first kick off at 9pm on Monday 12th October 2021, we’ve organised 33 Over 30’s FootballContinue reading “KICKABOUT IS ONE YEAR OLD”

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. Booking is now live for next week’s Kickabout, on Monday 4th October 2021. Please note, our sessions have now moved to the pitches in the “cage” at the top of the Vauxhall Road car park. This is the same 5G surface as the main pitchContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR FIRST KICKABOUT OF OCTOBER”

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout. Booking is now live for next week’s Kickabout, on Monday 27th September 2021. Please note, our sessions have now moved to the pitches in the “cage” at the top of the Vauxhall Road car park. This is the same 5G surface as the main pitchContinue reading “BOOKING OPEN FOR NEXT WEEKS COMMUNITY KICKABOUT”

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout, our biggest session to date since we started 11 months ago. Booking is now live for next week’s Kickabout, on Monday 20th September 2021. Please note, as from Monday 13th September our sessions have moved to the pitches in the “cage” at the top ofContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR MONDAY 20th SEP OVER 30s FOOTBALL”

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout; apologies to those of you who joined the standby list and didn’t get an opportunity to play – a couple of people filled in for late withdrawals but we couldn’t accommodate any more. Booking is now live for next week’s Kickabout, on Monday 13th SeptemberContinue reading “BOOKING OPEN FOR OUR NEXT OVER 30s FOOTBALL SESSION”

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s Community Kickabout; despite the session falling on a Bank Holiday it was a well attended session. Booking is now live for the first Kickabout of September, on Monday 6th. We’re going to be unable to consider booking a second pitch for a couple of months, while aContinue reading “BOOK NOW FOR THE 6th SEPTEMBER OVER 30s FOOTBALL SESSION”