Health and Adult Social Care
Fan Dance Theatre Company is a Brighton based company of performers with and without disabilities who make feature length shows and deliver integrated creative workshops. Performers work together to produce unique pieces encompassing comedy, shadow imagery, dance and acting. Their mission is to use a range of inclusive and artistic approaches to create fun performances for festivals, social events, schools and colleges.
Gig Buddies pairs up people with and without learning disabilities, that have similar interests, to be friends and to go to events together. The project aims to tackle social isolation by improving community networks and providing the opportunity for adults with learning disunities to have proper choice over how they live their lives. They also run monthly socials across Sussex which people can join, while they wait to be matched to a Gig Buddy volunteer.
A searchable online database of free or low cost activities. If you want to get out and about more, meet new people or just want to know what's going on in your area, It's Local Actually can help you. Simply put in a keyword or your post code, and the database will come back to you with plenty of information.
You can also search the database for businesses and services to help you at home.
A local lunch club for people aged 50+ and disabled people, you can also get involved in the raffle and bingo.
Sussex Bears are the largest community interest basketball club operated as a social enterprise utilising sport generally, or basketball specifically as a tool for social change. Sussex Bears Wheelchair basketball team are the current South East Division 3 winners and next season could have a couple of teams in the national leagues. They will help players of all abilities get the most out of the sport.
Sussex Cricket provides people of all ages with access to cricket . Their DIScoverABILITY programme provides opportunities for disabled people to lead an active lifestyle, develop skills for independent living and be the best cricketers they can be. Sussex Cricket also provide outreach coaching sessions for schools, colleges, day centres, care homes and charities, host clubs in leisure centres and sports facilities, as well as two competitive Sussex County Disability Squads.
Switchboard is a charity for LGBTQ people looking for community, support or information. We connect people and support them directly through specially developed Switchboard services or link them to other specialist organisations.
Set up in 1975 Switchboard has been listening to, informing and supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in Brighton & Hove and beyond. Originally a helpline, we have developed additional services and now offer much more.