We’re aiming to raise £5,000 from 29th Nov to 6th Dec as part of this year’s Big Give Christmas Challenge.
This will go towards the running of our Sports Buddies project.
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.
To end inflexible support for people with learning disabilities.
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.
These are the things we do. The reason we do them is to enable everyone to go out and see their friends and lead active social lives. Take a look at what we do and how we do it here.
Gig Buddies and Sports Buddies are our projects that pair up people with and without learning disabilities in Sussex to be friends and to go to events together.
This is where our charity started and we’re developing more ways for more people with learning disabilities to fight for their right to party!
This is the way that we share our Gig Buddies with other organisations who want to replicate our work.
We want as many people with learning disabilities and autism to have social lives as possible and so working with partner organisations who share our passion and philosophy is the best way for us to do this.
We now have partner projects in various locations around the UK and in Australia.
We can provide your staff training around our expertise in:
We’re happy to talk about other ideas you have too and design something to suit you.
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