We've Won The Queen's Award

We’re celebrating Volunteers Week in the best way we can possibly think of! We have just heard that we’ve been awarded The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in recognition for all the work of our amazing volunteers.

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Support our work

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.

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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

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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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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:

Campaigning

To end inflexible support for people with learning disabilities.

Friendships

Supporting people with learning disabilities and autistic people to go out to gigs and events with a volunteer who shares the same interests through our Gig Buddies and Sports Buddies projects.