Gig Buddies with Thera Trust

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.

28/08/2025

🎪 What a month! 21 socials, and over 250 tickets given away to 5 fantastic festivals!
💖 A huge thanks to . And for the first time for their amazing generosity supporting the project through this years St James Quarter Sessions
🤘There will be many more photos and stories to come over the coming weeks and months!

19/08/2025

🧡 We had a great time on Saturday seeing at A Jaffa Cake Musical

🎪 Still lots more socials to come over the next week and there are loads of great pics we've not shared yet!

12/08/2025

🤘On Saturday we said a huge THANK YOU to our incredible volunteers with a day at the
💖 Volunteers make Gig Buddies happen, enabling adults with a learning disability and autistic adults to get out to more of what they love!
🤩 Shout out to (also for the unexpected photo bomb!) .christie.14 and .blythe.comedy for the fab shows x

10/08/2025

📣🚨 THIS 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.

08/08/2025

🥾 We're off on another and we're asking YOU to support our team!
🤘 Sarah is walking for Gig Buddies this year. 'Gig Buddies are brilliant at what they do. I've found a great gig buddy through them and I've been to loads of gigs and festivals that I wouldn't normally go to.'
❤️💸Donate here - https://www.justgiving.com/team/gigbuddiesedinburghkiltwalkers2025