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Your donation will support our work to enable more people with learning disabilities to lead full and active social lives. Through our Gig Buddies and Sports Buddies projects as well as our wider campaigning work.
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Gig Buddies in other places
Find out about setting up our Gig Buddies project in your area.
Also find out if there's a Gig Buddies project near you.
Book a chat to find out more
Volunteers wanted
Love live music, want to support people in your community to get out, make friends, get active and see great bands?
Become a Gig Buddies or Sports Buddies volunteer.
Turn what you love in to a volunteering opportunity and enjoy it with a buddy with a learning disability.
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What we believe...
We're a grassroots charity that enables adults with learning disabilities and/or autism to lead active social lives and make decisions about how they want to live their life.
We work to erode social isolation; campaign to challenge limiting social care practices.
We do this through:
- Our campaigning work
- Our Gig Buddies volunteering project
- Our Sports Buddies project
Get in touch to find out more
Sports Buddies
Like Gig Buddies, Sports Buddies matches someone up with a volunteer who loves the same physical activity.
It could be playing football, walking, dancing, walking the dog.
Whatever you like to do to get more healthy.
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Join our campaign...
Join our campaign to bring an end to inflexible support that prevents people with learning disabilities to be able to lead the lives they want, and to Stay Up Late!
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Osees Metamorphosed Beer
Breweries Carnival Brewing (Liverpool), Pilot Beer (Edinburgh) and Fuerst Wiacek (Berlin) have released ‘Metamorphosed’ a beer to celebrate US rockband ‘Osees’ European and UK tours with the proceeds supporting our work.
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The latest Stay Up Late news...
Three years of Stay Up Late Ambassadors – celebrating their successes
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We would welcome your donation...
We're currently fundraising for our Sports Buddies project. We're aiming to raise £7,500 by Tuesday 7th December '21.