Gig Buddies with Thera 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

30/08/2025

30/08/2025

📣🚨 TONIGHT'S FUNDRAISER HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Sadly the venue have unexpetedly pulled out of tonight's disco fundraiser in Midlothian, and it will no longer be going ahead.

We really appreciate the support that Gig Buddies Colin, Don, Kevin, and Robert have shown in organising this event and we will be arranging a new date as soon as possible. It is likely to be a weekend in October, dates and location to be confirmed.

So sorry for any disappointment and apologies for the very short notice.