Emergency appeal – Covid-19
Help us get more people with learning disabilities connected online through the lockdown and beyond.
Gig Buddies is volunteering made easy. Become a Gig Buddy today and join us in having a great time.
Gig Buddies matches up socially isolated people with learning disabilities and/or autism with a volunteer who shares the same interests.
Gig Buddies is NOT about providing free support or replacing statutory services
It's about enabling people with learning disabilities to have people in their lives who aren't paid to be there
It’s all about
Culture
Friendships
Leading
Community Life
Welcome to Gig Buddies
We are NOT about providing free support or replacing statutory services.
It’s about enabling people with learning disabilities to have people in their lives who aren’t paid to be there.
Through matching people up with a volunteer who commits to at least one gig per month we are able to show:
Credits: Hani Fauzia Ramadhani & Nada Ibrahim Saleh
Gig Buddy volunteers make a difference
Through matching people up with a volunteer who commits to at least one gig per month our evaluation shows:
86%said they see their Gig Buddy as their friend
82%said they felt really able to make decisions about what they wanted to do with their buddy
76%said they’re more aware of other ways they can now spend their spare time
79%said they now go out more in the evenings as a result of Gig Buddies (not just with their buddy)
90%said that having a Gig Buddy makes them feel less lonely
78%said they’d made new friends in addition to their Gig Buddy volunteer
From the blogs
11 January 2022
Gig Buddies Newsletter Jan-Feb 2022
We hope you had a good Christmas and managed to stay well. We’ve returned following the break and have a range of exciting activities planned […]
15 November 2021
Interview with Storm and Thunder Member, Chris Love
This year we are celebrating a whole 10 years of Stay Up Late! As part of this we decided to have a rebrand of the […]
2 November 2021
November/ December Newsletter
Hi Gig Buddies, Welcome to our latest newsletter for November and December. We can’t believer it’s coming to the end of the year already! We […]Gig Buddies Projects around the UK and Internationally
If you would like to find out about Gig Buddies projects in other parts of the country then please follow these links:
Gig Buddies in a Box
If you want to find out about setting up Gig Buddies in your area then please do get in touch.
We’d love to speak with you more about this and can support you to get things going. There’s more information in this presentation too.
We look forward to hearing from you.