Stay up late blog

And our top tips from what we’ve learned so far We started Gig Buddies over 5 years ago in our city of Brighton and Hove with an aim to enable a fairly small number of socially isolated people with learning disabilities and/or autism to be able to access mainstream cultural events in their communities, especially […]

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We are starting a new quality checking project where we will be working with a local support provider to check the quality of their services. We are looking for 3 people with learning disabilities to join our team to help lead on this project.  You will need to be based in Sussex and able to […]

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Our core purpose at Stay Up Late is always to ensure that people with learning disabilities can lead the lifestyle the want, without restrictions like bedtimes, hand-overs and attitudes getting in the way. So what on earth has this all got to do with virtual reality you may well ask? And what on earth is […]

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Here are the minutes from our May meeting Including…… News from the team Our idea for a talk event News about our visitors from finland this week Click on the picture below to download the minutes

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We need to say a massive thank you to Frank Turner for helping to spread the work about the issues that many people with learning disabilities struggle with in their lives, around having an active nightlife especially gigs and events and what better way to do this than through his UK tour? Our link-up with […]

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This week, along with thousands of other organisations across the UK, we’re celebrating Volunteers Week to show our appreciation for the work of growing band of Gig Buddies volunteers. (Check out our tweets to see some of the volunteers we’ve been celebrating). We’ve now got over 100 volunteers and the numbers continue to grow, as […]

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Here are the minutes from our March meeting Including…… News from the team Our great support movement jar Volunteer award nominations Songs for our silent disco Our silent disco party, for our Gig Buddies 5th birthday, was on Latest TV – check it out here Click on the picture below to download the minutes

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Here are the minutes from our February meeting Including…. An update from the team Discussion about new advisory groups Social we could run Gig Buddies awards for volunteers Wild Rainbow t-shirt designs   Here are our volunteer award winners!

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This week the Stay Up Late team are interviewing for 2 new roles. One of them is a project worker for the Gig Buddies project and the other one is a quality checker for a local support provider. The Stay Up Late team asked me to help interview for the quality checker role as I […]

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I read this awful tweet yesterday, I’ve no reason to believe it’s not true, it was published by a barrister representing a client with a learning disability who is also gay. Why would he lie about that? @ukhomeoffice doesn’t believe my client is gay as it’s not credible someone with severe learning difficulties would be […]

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