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Category: News

Here for Games Con: Help wanted! Prizes, volunteers, events and GMs

By Adam Posted on March 21, 2023 Posted in Here for Games Con, News Tagged with here for games con
Here for Games Con: Help wanted! Prizes, volunteers, events and GMs

Everything is coming together nicely! We have a stack of prizes, our wonderful team of volunteers is back again even those from away and we’ve a line up of new faces to meet. Online we’ve are shaping up well, four …

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Who we are: An infographic.

By Adam Posted on January 6, 2023 Posted in News

Who we are and what we do! The core of what we do hasn’t changed since we began, we want to provide free social events, a community and to give back, how we do it has changes, starting RPGs, video …

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2022 year in review

By Adam Posted on January 5, 2023 Posted in Articles, Charity, News Tagged with Charity

2022 has been an amazing year, we’ve continued the growth started during the pandemic whilst working hard to improving the accessibility and professionalism of our events, whilst keeping them fun! This year we’ve launched guided mediation, LGBTQIA events, a podcast, …

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January Exercise and Activity Challenge

By Adam Posted on January 1, 2023 Posted in Charity, Mind, News Tagged with activitychallenge, exercise

Let’s get Physical! We are going to do our own take on the 31 days of Activity run nationally by Mind. In 2021 we logged our exercise for a year and ‘travelled’ 9000kms. It was a great way to connect, …

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November and December Events

By Adam Posted on November 1, 2022 Posted in News, Uncategorized Tagged with Games night

November GamingThursday 3rd 18:30 HerdsmanThursday 10th 19:00 OnlineSaturday 12th 12:00 Welsh Club (12 hour charity event)Sunday 20th 15:00Herdsman Sunday 27th 18:00 Online December GamingThursday 1st 18:30 HerdsmanThursday 7th 19:00 OnlineFriday 9th 19:00 Core LGBTQIA games night and socialSunday 18th 15:00 …

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Sing out Song, Mind charity concert.

By Adam Posted on August 22, 2022 Posted in News No Comments Tagged with Charity, Mental Health
Sing out Song, Mind charity concert.

I was honoured to help out a fellow mental health aware, community minded group. Sing out Strong Sing out Strong | Facebook They have done amazing working before and during the pandemic and on Saturday hosted a charity concert including …

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Website feedback wanted on two new websites

By Adam Posted on August 22, 2022 Posted in News No Comments Tagged with here for games con

Good morning folks. I have been hard at work on two websites, I’d love your feedback. Everyone is welcome and invited to contribute to what we do and I love empowering our volunteers and seeing them go. New home page …

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Minor Revamp of website

By Adam Posted on August 12, 2022 Posted in News No Comments

I’ve updated the headings to hopefully make this website easier to use. If there are dead links let me know The most important links are: Learn more about Our Aims and our history   Our code of conduct Join our friendly communities: Facebook , Discord and Meet up Social media: …

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Podcast: Episode 6 The MegaMay 2022 That Was

By James Posted on August 11, 2022 Posted in News, Podcast Tagged with Podcast
Podcast: Episode 6  The MegaMay 2022 That Was

In this episode we look back at MegaMay and discuss how we thought it went, Toby gets a bit of a roasting about his experience with some vikings and there are even interviews recorded live from the event itself! Thank …

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New branding- soft launch Here for Games!

By Adam Posted on July 5, 2022 Posted in News No Comments Tagged with here for games con, herefor.games

We do a lot, so there is a lot going on. in person, online, rpgs and the Library. We know some folks are only interested in one aspect of what we do so we’ve launched a new website to help …

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www.HereFor.games

Here For Games Con
May 10th to 12th 2024
Free, inclusive charity games convention
www.herefor.games/con

Free community Lending Library. 
500 Games, jigsaws giant games and more
https://herefordshireboardgamers.co.uk/library
or http://bit.ly/HB-Library

Here for games Knowledge
www.herefor.games/knowledge

Shop Here for games (new and second hand)
www.shop.herefor.games

Recent Posts

  • December events November 21, 2023
  • Podcast: Season 2 Episode 20 – What’s On Your Wishlist? November 17, 2023
  • November 19th Venue change and extra Shop event! November 6, 2023
  • Podcast: Season 2 Episode 19 – Just Shootin’ The Breeze November 3, 2023
  • Shop update! New releases and children’s games from £10 November 1, 2023
  • Events! November 1, 2023
  • New videos on our youtube channel! What do we play and what are we lending from our library! October 28, 2023
  • New Posters! Community and Here For Games Con October 26, 2023
  • November events and last charity event of the year! October 26, 2023
  • Podcast: Season 2 Episode 18 – There Will Be Blood (on the clocktower) October 24, 2023

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