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Gig Buddies featured in Home Care magazine

Big thanks to Homecare magazine for writing a feature about us. In it you can read a bit about the history of why  our charity was started in the first place with the Stay Up Late campaign  and how that’s expanded in to starting up the Gig Buddies project.

‘People with learning disabilities ‘shouldn’t need to ‘drink up’ and go home early’

‘Nineties punk band, Heavy Load, were one of the first to have a significant amount of band members with learning disabilities, but they soon got fed up with support workers showing up at gigs early to take home many of their fans, who also had disabilities..’. READ MORE HERE>>>