Paul Richards

17 June 2022
Sports Buddies 1st birthday
Sports Buddies 1st birthday Our Active Socials, for people waiting for a buddy or matched pairs, have been running all year. We’ve had lots of [...]
2 June 2022
We’ve won the Queen’s Award
We've won the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service(the MBE for charities and community groups) We’ve had some amazing news today we’ve been recognized by the [...]
27 May 2022
Paul awarded a Points of Light award by the Prime Minister
Paul awarded a Points of Light award by the Prime Minister Paul, our founder, was thrilled to hear that he'd been recognised as a 'Point [...]
23 May 2022
How Gig Buddies got started
I often get asked how Gig Buddies came about and it came from a conversation we were having with our newly formed board of trustees [...]
13 April 2022
Small steps can make massive changes
Small steps can make massive changes We've heard some amazing stories from our buddies who've been invited to their volunteer's weddings, gone to Glastonbury Festival [...]
22 March 2022
Shannara – Stay Up Late Ambassador and Public Living Room Volunteer
Shannara has been a Gig Buddy for 5 years and here he tells his story about the other things he is now involved with in [...]
18 February 2022
Oh wow! Me on TV! Daniel’s blog about Gig Buddies on The One Show
Gig Buddies featured on BBC’s The One Show

3 February 2022
Looking back at Gig Buddies in lockdown and looking forward
Looking back at Gig Buddies in lockdown and looking forward It was truly impressive to see how our team here at the charity reacted to [...]
28 September 2021
Sharing Gig Buddies – How we share it and what we’ve learned
Sharing Gig Buddies How we share it and what we’ve learned We started our Gig Buddies project in Brighton and Hove over 8 ½ years [...]
31 August 2021
September newsletter
Hi Gig and Sports Buddies Welcome to our latest Newsletter. We’re going back to bringing them out every 2 months so this has everything you […]

26 August 2021
Sports Buddies launches
Sports Buddies launches Thank you to everyone who came to the launch of our new Sports Buddies project. Sports Buddies is all about getting active [...]
4 March 2021