Archive for November, 2018

Why we’ve decided to organise an (un)Ordinary conference. Earlier this year Alex Fox published his book ‘A New Health and Care System – Escaping the Invisible Asylum’. In it, Shaun Webster, a self-advocate who works for Leeds based charity Change, talks about his own experience of conferences. He speaks all over the UK, and overseas, and […]

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What a great and busy fortnight we have had here at the Stay Up Late and Gig Buddies team! We had our Gig Buddies partners day, the Stay Up Late AGM, 5 socials, volunteer training, Carol from Gig Buddies Australia came for a visit, Paul spoke at the Social Care Futures and the Greater London […]

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                                                                 Click here to read October’s storm and Thunder team note. 

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Last month saw the opening of Rightful Lives, an online exhibition exploring the theme of Human Rights and people with learning disabilities and/or autism. They make the very good point that the Human Rights Act seems to barely touch the lives of people with learning disabilities, and of course there have been some very high […]

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                                                      (Jay, Bradley and The Cut Chemist at Concorde 2)   Me & Bradley have been Gig Buddies for 3 years now. It’s something we both really enjoy and […]

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