Paul Richards

19 June 2020

Jason’s friendship blog – Learning Disability Week 2020

Jason and Victoria Gig Buddies participant and Stay Up Late quality checker, Jason O’Neill, writes here about his friendship with Victoria for Learning Disability Week […]

18 June 2020

Celebrating friendship – Learning Disability Week 2020

Buddies in lockdown – celebrating friendship The theme of this year’s Learning Disability Week is friendship and we mark that by celebrating the friendships of […]

17 June 2020

Close friends in lockdown – Victoria and Sas

Close friends in lockdown – Victoria and Sas A blog for Learning Disability Week by Victoria Smith This year for Learning Disability Week we are […]

4 May 2020

Turning the knobs up to 11 in lockdown

On 17th March we had an emergency team meeting as social distancing was starting to take effect, and a full lockdown looked ever more likely. [...]

1 May 2020

May 20 newsletter

Staying in is the new going out. At Gig Buddies we’ve had to adapt to the lockdown which means we can’t meet up at the […]

3 April 2020

Gig Buddies in lockdown – April 20

We've had to take as much of Gig Buddies online, and on to the phone, as much as possible while we're on lockdown with the [...]

18 March 2020

Coronavirusfest – Gig Buddies going online

Coronavirusfest - Gig Buddies going online At our team meeting yesterday we had a long chat about what we could do to carry on the [...]

27 January 2020

Time to pause for thought with gig buddies in Eastbourne.

Our student intern Martina joined us for another social in Eastbourne to meet gig buddies and see some of them perform! Here’s what she said about her experience.

16 January 2020

Launching our new project Buzz Buddies!

Extratime in partnership with Stay up Late, have launched a new project called Buzz Buddies for 18-25 year olds with learning disabilities who live in […]