South Herts Hikers Group email list

To improve communication with members, the South Herts Hikers Group has introduced its own Group email list. This has become necessary because of changes in the way that Meetup works. We would like to invite you to sign up for our list. This has the following features:

  • Each email will have a link so that you can unsubscribe at any time.
  • We will send emails about new events announced or changes to planned events but not many messages, typically 2 - 4 per month.
  • If you sign up for an event we may send additional emails or SMS messages (if you have given a mobile phone number) about arrangements for that event.
  • We need to get members to sign up for the Group email list to get more members attending events and to help us to cover costs as we are not getting enough members attending via Meetup.
  • The Group may leave Meetup early in July 2025 due to financial pressure but we will continue independently and the email list will be the main way to keep in touch with members.
  • You can also contact us via the contact form on this web site
  • We have a South Herts Hikers Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576698587198 but it is only accessible if you are logged in to Facebook. If you have a Facebook login, please follow our page.

Sign up here

Here is a link to the South Herts Hikers email list signup page on Mailchimp

http://eepurl.com/i6YNNI

To help you to use Meetup more effectively, we have included some tips.

Features of Meetup notifications

It appears to us that:

  • If you use the Meetup app then you won’t get some email notifications unless you turn off those push notifications in the app.
  • If you are only getting push notifications via the Meetup app but if you don’t use the app regularly then you may miss notifications about new events.
  • You may only receive Meetup notification, whether by email or push notifications, while Meetup considers you to be an “active member”. If you haven’t attended an event or visited the group for 3 months then we think that Meetup regards you as an inactive member and stops sending notifications.
  • Some members have reported not receiving email notifications when they think they should have received them
  • Fewer members are signing up for our events and this coupled with an 80% increase in meetup organiser fees from July 2024 makes it difficult for our group to cover its running costs so we may leave Meetup at the beginning of July 2025 due to financial pressure.

More about Meetup notifications

You may receive notifications of forthcoming events via Meetup but we find that this is becoming less effective. For each Meetup Group that you belong to, you can set whether or not to receive notifications for that group and if so which ones to receive.

To change the Meetup notification settings

On the desktop site go to: Meetup > Settings > Email updates > Updates about your groups > South Herts Hikers > Edit

For South Herts Hikers, we suggest that as a minimum you enable New event announcements, event changes, reminders and updates and organiser announcements. You might wish to leave others turned off like comments, rating requests and photos.

To see Meetup mobile device settings

On the desktop site go to:

Meetup > Settings > Mobile notifications This tells you where you can get “push” notifications on a mobile device if you have installed the Meetup app.

For further details, please see Meetup help > Account, Notifications, and Payments > Notification settings > Editing my email settings

This gives you instructions for desktop and mobile web. It also states, “When certain push notifications are on, we skip sending the same info via email.”

If you have any questions about the email sign-up or any problems, please contact us

Page last updated 5 Jun 2025