Today, it is wonderful to say that Liverpool HEMA celebrates our 6-year anniversary of being open. For a change, there is nothing to say about Covid in this anniversary update! The club has been open and running without any interruptions this year. With two sessions a week, we have had more than 100 training sessions […]
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Changing our Saturday sessions
In this announcement about our Saturday sessions, I have some bad news but also some good news: Why are we doing this? Although the loss of the weekend training sessions is a shame, it has been getting harder to keep them running. The turnout has often been quite small, but this and the finances are […]
Anniversary: 5 years of Liverpool HEMA
Today marks the 5-year anniversary of when Liverpool HEMA opened its doors back in 2017. When I moved down to Liverpool at the start of 2017, there wasn’t any guarantee that I would be staying for any real length of time. It could easily just have been a temporary, single-year situation, followed by moving somewhere […]
Updates: club dates in March and April
During March and April, the club is going to have a few “days off” where we are closed for one reason or another. The following dates are worth keeping in mind. Saturday 5th March We have been asked to cancel this session, due to other bookings at the hall. Therefore, the plan is to allow […]
Dates: Christmas 2021 and January 2022
This year, we are going to have a break over Christmas and New Year, for two main reasons: because the venue is installing a new floor in the sports hall (work starts on Thursday the 16th, so we have an early closing date!), and because I really need some time off to rest and recuperate. […]
Updates: changes to our weekend sessions
As of this weekend (Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th of September), the way we run our weekend sessions will be changing. With the weather becoming less predictable, although perhaps with more rain, it is not going to be sustainable to keep running the sessions outdoors. Therefore, for health and safety as well as simple comfort, […]
Anniversary: 4 years of Liverpool HEMA
Today marks the 4-year anniversary of when Liverpool HEMA opened its doors. Our previous anniversary in July last year was a slightly subdued affair, taking place near the end of the first major lockdown, without any legal opportunity to get together to celebrate. We had just started running online sessions through Zoom, and we kept […]
Updates: Reopening for indoor training
We have some wonderful updates for the club today! From Monday the 17th of May, sports clubs in England can return to training indoors. This means that Liverpool HEMA can return to the hall on Wednesday evenings. Wednesday evenings, 7:00-9:00 pm We have made the necessary arrangements with the venue managers, so everything is set […]
Updates: Reopening for outdoor training
We now have the opportunity to do some outdoor HEMA training on Sunday afternoons, until we can get back into the hall for our regular indoor training (most likely in May). The focus of these outdoor sessions will be “moving gently”: we need to take care with how we ease ourselves back into physical activity […]
Updates: Closing for lockdown number 3
After managing to run sessions every single week in December, we must now suspend our in-person training sessions once again, due to sports clubs closing for the third English lockdown. This means that from Tuesday the 5th of January until the week of the 15th-21st of February, there will not be any physical training sessions […]
Updates: Reopening and a new venue
We have quite a lot of exciting news today, because we will be reopening soon! There has been quite a lot of furious work in the background, paving the way for the club to reopen, while also finding us a venue with greater longevity and more space.
Anniversary: Liverpool HEMA is 3 years old today
Today is the third anniversary of the club opening – Liverpool HEMA is now three years old as a group! This last year has been somewhat dominated by three months or so of coronavirus and therefore not being able to meet in person. However, we have rallied and have been running some virtual training sessions […]
New promotional video for Liverpool HEMA (2019-2020)
We have just released another new promotional video for the club! At our final session before breaking for Christmas and new year, we did a little filming. The brief was “do something cool in front of the camera”, because we believe that with even just a session or two of training, everyone is capable of […]
Anniversary: Liverpool HEMA is now 2 years old
Today we can celebrate the 2 year anniversary of Liverpool HEMA opening its doors! We had our first session on the 19th of July 2017, and it has been a lot of fun since then. Quite a few of our current members have been with us since the club opened and many more have joined […]
New promotional video for Liverpool HEMA (2018-2019)
We ran a filming session at the end of December, with the goal of performing some cool stuff on camera and creating a new promotional video for the club to help show what sort of things we do. My hope for the video was for it to feature club members, rather than showing off what […]