Stay Up Late is a charity started by members of the punk band, 'Heavy Load'. Frustrated at seeing people with learning disabilities leaving gigs at 9pm due to their support staff working inflexible shift patterns they decided to do something about it. Stay Up Late exists to promote full and active social lives for people with learning disabilities.
Stay Up Late is about having choice and freedom in your life to do what you want to do.
Fight for the right to party!
www.stayuplate.org
There's a facebook page too
We were thinking about Stay Up Late because it's such an important thing that people can have a life after tea time.
One young musician in our group is able to come along to the Heart Beats group because someone who works with him (well, actually his piano tutor) was inspired by the Stay Up Late campaign to just - get him in the car - and come and play some music. Simple, but powerful.
And we'd like to give a shout out to all the other drivers, parents, support staff, bus drivers and folk who go out of their way to bring people to our sessions. It's a rural area, and some journeys are long - that's why we'll always do our best to welcome everyone and make sure the kettle's on.
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