One Minute Brief of the Day:
Create posters that venues could hang in their spaces to show that people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people are welcome and that nightlife is for everyone.
Let’s celebrate #NationalStayUpLateDay and raise awareness of the barriers people face when it comes to enjoying a night out.
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @StayUpLateUK with the hashtag #NationalStayUpLateDay
Deadline 6pm BST. Remember to add your Twitter handle in the top-left of your submissions.
Prizes:
Stay Up Late Merch Bundle and feature on their Wall of Fame!!
Background:
In 2019 the Big Bedtime Audit found that around 69% of adults with learning disabilities were ready for bed at 8:30pm on Friday night. The national average is 10:49pm on a weekday.
The Stay Up Late campaign is all about choice and being able to embrace the things people take for granted. Such as friendship, music and the joy of a good night out full of opportunity and freedom.
So this 17th of May they’ve launched a challenge, for as many people as possible to head out and fight for their right to party. Whether you’re someone with lived experience, family, a support worker or an ally. Stay Up Late wants everyone involved together.
About:
Stay Up Late is a charity that enables adults with learning disabilities and autistic people to lead active social lives and make decisions about how they want to live their life.
They work to erode social isolation and campaign to challenge limiting social care practices, such as bedtime curfews.
They believe that a good night out is a perfect litmus test for a good life. Do you have friends? Do you have hobbies? Can you access these?
One of many barriers to this is that we don’t think about partying when it comes to adults with learning disabilities… The whole idea is completely abstract, because we aren’t even aware it’s an issue to begin with. We don’t imagine adults with learning disabilities being true, messy human beings. Who can be drunk, and mean and silly and get things wrong and generally just live their life like the rest of us do. One foot in front of the other.
So, the Stay Up Late campaign asks for us all to embrace the multifaceted nature of being human and welcome neurodiverse individuals into spaces they may not feel welcome.
It would be great to create a posters that signals to people that pubs, clubs and evenings are for everyone, that all are welcome and that this is an issue they are fighting to overcome.
Find out more: https://stayuplate.org/
Paul Richards, the Founder of Stay Up Late tells the story of going from a punk band to social campaigning.
