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Gig Buddies with Thera Trust enables people with a learning disability to get out to more events and enjoy the social life they choose.

Our current local projects are: Gig Buddies Edinburgh, West Lothian, and Glasgow. We do this by paring our members to a volunteer who shares the same interests as them. Our 'Gig Buddies' then choose which events they go to each month and enjoy their shared passion together. Gig Buddies was set up in 2013 by Stay Up Late in Brighton and has since been established in Sydney, Australia and now here in Scotland.

23/12/2025

🤘🏻 This is our 2025 in numbers

💖 Thank you to everyone who volunteers, dontated tickets, donated money, got out to a show, booked our training, and helped make the ordinary... ordinary
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18/12/2025

🤘Gig Buddies with Thera Trust - 2025 Wrapped
👀 Check out some of what we've been up to this year
💖 Far too many people to thank but we'll try .trust

24/11/2025

🥳🤘We had a great time on Friday night celebrating 15 years of Thera Scotland and we're delighted that the night raised £206 for Gig Buddies with Thera Trust!

💗 Huge thank you to Thera (Scotland)s staff, the people they support, and their families and friends for donating so many fantastic raffles prizes, and thanks to Andrina for selling the tickets.

💖🪩 A massive shout out to Gig Buddies Don, Colin, Stephan, and Robert for the tunes!

20/11/2025

🤯 We can't quite believe this is happening.

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🤘17th December at

💖 Huge thanks to and and Sneaky's for the support.

🎟️ Tickets available now from

20/10/2025

📣 We have some changes to our funding that we’d like to share, with an announcement of some new funding, but also saying goodbye and thank you to some long-term support. While it brings change, this news doesn’t mean Gig Buddies with Thera will be ending in any of our current areas.

After 8 years of support from West Lothian Council, we’ve recently had confirmation that our contract to deliver Gig Buddies in West Lothian will sadly end in March 2026. While this is sad news for us, we want to thank them for their incredible support of Gig Buddies for such a long time.

Our National Lottery grant for delivery in Glasgow also came to an end this September. Thankfully, we have been awarded a new grant from the National Lottery for costs towards our total staff team over the next 2 years. We are incredibly thankful to the National Lottery for their support of our project.

For these reasons, our focuses on how we support people, and the activity you see from us, may start to change over the next 6 months and into the future. We want to stress that Gig Buddies will not be ending support for any current members in any area we currently operate. In fact, we are currently welcoming referrals new members and volunteers in all areas! So let people know they can sign up to Gig Buddies! Current members and volunteers can reach out to our team with any questions.

Public support for our work remains more vital than ever for us to continue what we do. We are incredibly interested in connecting with local businesses and organisations across the Scottish central belt that share our vision and would like to support our project. If you know of a company who might want to support us, get in touch with Samuel.maggs@thera.co.uk. We also welcome public donations and fundraisers with more info being available here - https://gigbuddiestheratrust.raiselysite.com/

08/10/2025

📣🤘We are now taking referrals for new members in Edinburgh! If you are an adult with a learning disability or are Autistic and would love to get out to more live events and meet new people, get in touch!

📧 Send a message to our Edinburgh team member, Sam, at samuel.maggs@thera.co.uk

https://www.thera.co.uk/about/projects/gig-buddies/about/

26/09/2025

🎪 We spent our summer enabling people to discover fantastic festivals and great gigs!
💖 Much love to for their support!
🤘You can read more about how we enable people to access festivals in our blogs - https://gigbuddiestheratrust.raiselysite.com/blog
📷 Image text: 'Coming along with Gig Buddies gives me confidence, but also information about what's out there to go to. It's good to have people to share different gigs with.' - Sarah, Gig Buddies member

23/09/2025

🚨📣 New blog!
🎪 This is the final part in our three part series of blogs that looks at our work with festivals, and how we
enable people to access them with confidence. This week we talk about our amazing month at the Edinburgh Festivals, how we gave away over 250 tickets, and the impact that comes from that.
👀 Read it here - https://gigbuddiestheratrust.raiselysite.com/gigbuddiestheratrust/posts/we-gave-away-over-250-tickets-to-the-edinburgh-festivals-how-gig-buddies-enables-people-to-access-festivals-part-three

16/09/2025

🥾 Thank you so much to the fabulous Gig Buddies Kiltwalk team for taking on the challenge at the weekend!
👩‍🎤🤘 Donations are still open and everything given goes towards enabling adults with a learning disability and autistic adults across Scotland to live an active social life and get out to more gigs!
❤️💸Donate here - https://www.justgiving.com/team/gigbuddiesedinburghkiltwalkers2025

11/09/2025

🥾 We're off on another !
👩‍🎤 On Sunday we'll be talking on the Edinburgh Kiltwalk and we're asking YOU to support our team!
🤘 Every donation goes towards enabling adults with a learning disability and autistic adults across Scotland to live an active social life and get out to more gigs!
❤️💸Donate here - https://www.justgiving.com/team/gigbuddiesedinburghkiltwalkers2025

04/09/2025

🤘Gig Buddies enables adults with a learning disability and autistic adults to expand their social networks and get out to more gigs. Nothing special, just ordinary.
🥾Help us make the ordinary... ordinary. Support our Kiltwalk team on the 14th September!
❤️💸Donate here - https://www.justgiving.com/team/gigbuddiesedinburghkiltwalkers2025

01/09/2025

🚨📣 New blog!
🎪 This is the second in our three part series of blogs that looks at our work with festivals, and how we
enable people to access them with confidence. This week we talk about our trip to back in July and the prep that went into a group of 17 Gig Buddies being there!
👀 Read it here - https://gigbuddiestheratrust.raiselysite.com/gigbuddiestheratrust/posts/how-gig-buddies-enables-people-to-access-festivals-part-two

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Thera (Scotland) Melrose House 69a George Street
Edinburgh
EH22JG

Telephone

+447738486001

Website

https://www.thera.co.uk/about/projects/gig-buddies/

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Gig Buddies Scotland enables people with a learning disability to get out to more events and enjoy the social life they choose. We do this by paring our members to a volunteer who shares the same interests as them. Our 'Gig Buddies' then choose which events they go to each month and enjoy their shared passion together. We also run a number of regular social events that anyone is welcome to come along to. Simply check out our latest newsletter to see what events are coming up.

We currently operate in Edinburgh, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Glasgow. Gig Buddies was set up in 2013 by Stay Up Late in Brighton and has since been established in Sydney, Australia and now here in Scotland.