In most things the HVA are doing under the pandemic, we're taking our lead from Volleyball England. You can see how they finalised their competitions here with details of their decision making process here (PDF download) . This approach was agreed at the HVA committee meeting held on 24 August 2020 (waiting on minutes). The League VE decided to award all league results as a draw, sharing the...

We're very pleased to say that Volleyball England have announced that indoor volleyball can re-start (along with outdoor 6v6 and 2v2). You can read the guidelines https://www.volleyballengland.org/…/government-gives-green-… We'll digest and then organise the committee meeting we missed back in June to discuss the restart of competitive volleyball next season and how we intend to finish last...

HVA will be following Volleyball England's lead and cancelling all county volleyball activities with immediate effect until 20 May 2020. That includes all league and cup fixtures including the Cup Final scheduled for 3 May 2020. We mirror the reason's given by Volleyball England and we won't repeat them here. We haven't taken the decision lightly. The Fixtures Secretary has cancelled all unplayed...

The current Volleyball England announcement can be found here . There's some good additional volleyball specific advice there: Wash your hands before and after playing/training. Clean volleyballs after each match and training session. Avoid unnecessary contact before, during and after games. We don't currently see any reason to impose a blanket ban on all HVA matches. Whilst any volleyball match...

St Albans Harriers have announced that after many years as a very active and successful volleyball club that that are closing the club down due to lack of members. Maks Kriveslo, the club's Secretary said "It's simply not viable from our perspective and so we are cutting our losses."

The 2020 Cup finals will be held on Sunday 3 May at Ridgeway Academy, with the format pretty much the same as last year . Thanks again to WHVC for hosting. More details soon, but please share info with your club members.

The minutes for yesterday's HVA Committee meeting are here . Do send these around to your club players, so they're aware of any decisions that might affect them.

St Albans Harriers Volleyball Club have requested a move of their men's team from Division 1 to Division 2. This has been discussed and agreed by the HVA committee. They are currently going through a re-structuring process with a number of new players and have struggled to field a competitive opposition at Div 1 level. This is with immediate effect. HVA have yet to update Division 1 on the...

The next committee meeting is on Tuesday 10 December at 8pm (not 7.30pm as suggested in the previous minutes). This info went to all clubs by email on 15 November, so I'm just posting it here for info. It will be at The Old Palace in Kings Langley (WD4 9HQ) as we won’t need as much space as the previous fixtures meeting. Minutes of the previous fixtures meeting are here . Agenda: Usual HVA...

The HVA will be hosting a Grade 4 referee course on Saturday 30th November at Ridgeway Academy (Herns Ln, Welwyn Garden City AL7 2AF). This is part funded by England Volleyball and part funded by HVA. The cost to anybody who wants to be on the course is £55 and as usual HVA will cover the cost of a single attendee per club. Hopefully your club can cover the cost for additional attendees. Once...