Gig Buddies blog

3 February 2022

Looking back at Gig Buddies in lockdown and looking forward

Read next Our Volunteers’ lockdown TOP TIPS!

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 […]

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 [...]
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 [...]
14 April 2021

Our Volunteers’ lockdown TOP TIPS!

Top Tips from Our Volunteers during lockdown! We had a wonderful time with some of our volunteers on Zoom last week, and we want to […]

4 March 2021

Our roadmap out of lockdown

Our roadmap out of lockdown Following the government's announcement about the lifting of lockdown restrictions we thought it would be helpful to look at what [...]
16 February 2021

My big football family – by Sas Granville

Sas’s football blog In this blog Gig Buddies participant Sas Granville tells us all about her love of football and how she has stayed in […]

27 January 2021

Being a good buddy – gigs are just the top of the pyramid

It’s not just gigs and Staying Up Late You could be asking yourself ‘What is the point of the charity Stay Up Late and their [...]
15 January 2021

Bollocks to Blue Monday

This is from an article we've just published on our charity's main website. At this difficult time what we don't need is silly gimmicks that [...]
12 January 2021

Socials Socials Socials!

It’s no secret here at Gig Buddies that we’ve been absolutely loving our zoom socials, it is so much fun to hang out with you […]

5 January 2021

Gig Buddies In Lockdown (Again!)

We returned to work in the first week of January 2021 with the news of the new tougher lockdown. While it hasn’t really come as […]

27 November 2020

Being a good buddy – whilst we can’t be ‘gig’ buddies

Read next – 3 years of volunteering and Coronavirusfest – Gig Buddies going online