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50 teams, choirs, bands, walking groups and toddler mornings you can join, with when they meet and what it costs, read from each group's own page.
Traditional Shotokan karate lessons, pay as you come.
A charity running indoor climbing sessions, taster sessions, NICAS junior courses and lead-climbing instruction on the climbing wall at The Priory School.
Members play badminton at a weekly club night.
Grassroots youth football teams for young players.
Girls' and women's football teams from Under 6 to adult, England Football Accredited.
Men's, women's and junior teams play league cricket, plus a Sunday XI.
Shotokan karate classes split by grade, from all grades to brown belt and above.
Netball coaching and match play for players from school Year 3 to Year 13.
Sunday group road rides, plus club time trials, road racing, cyclo-cross, mountain biking and Go-Ride coaching for children.
Group runs at three sessions a week, open to members and visitors, with no booking, no trials and no minimum pace.
Boys' and girls' youth football teams from U7 to U18, FA Accredited and run by volunteers.
Members play badminton at a weekly club night, affiliated to Badminton England; visitors are asked to get in touch before attending.
Members play squash, with club nights and junior training; no pay and play for non-members.
Adult, junior and women's teams play league cricket, with Sunday junior coaching from April to July.
Members and visitors play badminton at a weekly club night.
Members play lawn bowls on the club's indoor and outdoor facilities.
Group mountain bike rides twice a week from a pub in Charlton.
Volunteers do conservation gardening in the older part of Hitchin Cemetery (weeding, pruning, hedge cutting, native planting, bird and bat boxes) and give free guided tours in summer.
Volunteers run practical conservation sessions on the common, clearing paths, building boardwalks and managing scrub and riverbanks, and also run bird watching walks.
A free, volunteer-run, timed 2km run for children held every week.
Ringers ring the church bells for Sunday services, weddings and special services and hold a weekly practice; existing ringers and new volunteers are trained.
A Hitchin-based Ramblers group running weekly weekend walks of around 5 to 15 miles across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and south Cambridgeshire, plus social nights.
Volunteers garden the community garden, meadows and woodland edge at Ransom's Rec using permaculture principles, with tools and refreshments provided.
Community choir that meets weekly in term time to sing together, with one free taster session for newcomers.
Informal knit-and-natter evening where people bring their own knitting, crochet, embroidery or needle felting; hosted by the yarn business Woolly Chic.
Members paint and draw in watercolour, acrylics, oils, pastels and printing at weekly evening sessions and twice-monthly painting days.
Casual book club that meets monthly in a pub to discuss a chosen book using prepared question prompts.
Members meet weekly for talks by visiting photographers, competitions, assignment nights and tutorials.
Brass band for players who want to play together without committing to home practice or every rehearsal; performs in public two or three times a year.
Concert-style folk club with one or two main acts per night.
Folk dance club dancing styles from 1600s English dances to modern American contras and squares.
Symphony orchestra that rehearses weekly and gives concerts in Hitchin, offering a concert platform for local musicians.
Amateur musical theatre society staging shows and concerts, with on-stage and off-stage (lighting, wardrobe, scenery) roles.
Choir rehearsing weekly and performing large-scale choral works in concert.
Royal Air Force Air Cadets squadron.
Retired and semi-retired business and professional people meet monthly for lunch, with visits, trips and interest groups (walking, bowls, cycling, sailing, golf).
Women's Institute branch holding monthly meetings.
Volunteer group running a bookable Repair Cafe, litter picks and campaigns to cut waste and plastic in Hitchin.
Service club whose members run community projects such as food-bank support, a carers' cafe, river water-quality monitoring and in-school reading support.
Beavers, Cubs and Scouts meet weekly in Pirton.
Young people receive weekly actor training through workshops and appear in shows at the Queen Mother Theatre, with chances to direct, stage manage, work on costumes and write scripts.
Parents, grandparents and carers meet with babies, toddlers and pre-school children; currently closed to new members, with taster-session visits for the waiting list.
Young brass players rehearse weekly and perform in public, with free instrument loans available.
Parents and carers meet with babies and toddlers.
Children do drama activities with some singing and dance and produce two shows a year at the Queen Mother Theatre.
A fortnightly drop-in where an NCT breastfeeding counsellor gives feeding support and parents meet other parents.
A drop-in social group for breastfeeding families with UNICEF-accredited family support staff on hand for feeding questions.
Parents-to-be, parents and carers meet with babies and toddlers at the village hall.
A weekly youth group run jointly by churches across Hitchin where young people do activities together.
A church youth group for teenagers gathers weekly in term time.
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