Gig Buddies blog

Looking back at Gig Buddies in lockdown and looking forward
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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 […]

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 [...]
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 [...]
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 […]

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 [...]
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 […]

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 [...]
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 [...]
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 […]

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 […]

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