Archive for September, 2016

Community connecting – a guest post for RiPFA Madeline, our Gig Buddies Project Manager, has been asked to write a guest blog post for RiPFA. The article, Community connecting for people with learning disabilities – it’s about people not places, argues that as much emphasis as is placed on safeguarding needs to be placed on supporting people […]

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About our day at the Be Free Festival We were at an amazing event yesterday, Paradigm’s Be Free Festival in the beautiful setting of the Epping Forest in Essex. The Be Free festival is an event for people with learning disabilities and their support staff and poses the question: Are Gonna Be Free? This the […]

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Summary: We talked about the video for volunteer training, meals out together and a project that Daniel is developing around puppetry. Date: Tuesday 20th September Minutes: News sharing Rami is doing some work casual stewarding with the Brighton Centre. They now use the ‘Thumbs Up campaign’ and have toilets for all. Claire performed with her […]

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What we learned from the Descendents incident In my previous post I was reflecting on why I was thinking of taking down our petition calling on US punk band Descendents to change the name of the new LP which features the word ‘Spaz’. Unwittingly I unleashed a whole torrent of abuse from across the pond […]

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Why I think social care has gone all ‘prog rock’ This summer saw the 40th anniversary of what is regarded as the birth of punk. While there where bands in the 60s that had that punk sound it was the 70s that saw punk rise as a battle cry against the bloated, pompous excesses of […]

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