Volunteer as a buddy or share your skills. Have fun and help create real change.
Volunteering with us is a great way to meet new people, have fun, and help make a real difference. Whether you want to become a Gig or Sports Buddy or share your skills behind the scenes, there are a couple of ways you can get involved and we’ll support you every step of the way.
Support our work directly by signing up as a volunteer. You’ll be asked to accompany someone with a learning disability to at least one gig (or event) per month.
Examples of particular support we need at the moment are:
Franchise development
Developing corporate partnerships
Salesforce (to improve how we use our database)
Photographer and/or videographer (to help us capture images of our work in action)
We can send out various leaflets, advice sheets, posters and stickers that you can use to help you campaign for Stay Up Late where you live.
If you would like a campaign pack please email us or get in touch:
We’d love you to contact Stay Up Late about our work, or with questions you may have. We’ll always aim to try and reply to you as soon as possible too.
Yes. All volunteers take part in training that covers topics like learning disability awareness, communication, safeguarding, and possible scenarios. We also carry out DBS checks and ask for two references to ensure everyone’s safety and wellbeing.
We ask Gig Buddies to meet up about once a month and Sports Buddies twice a month — but many meet more often if it suits them both. We know life can get busy, so we keep things flexible. What matters most is building a consistent, friendly connection over time.
Yes — we are! Everyone who takes part in Gig Buddies is invited to have a say in how things are run.
You can come along to any of our advisory groups which help shape the project and feed directly into our board of trustees.
Gig Buddies is all about building long-term one-to-one friendships. But we always welcome help at our social events! Get in touch if you're interested in volunteering in that way.
