What We Do
The ‘Misfits’ is a unique award-winning Bristol-based theatre and social group, led by our Members, who are People with Learning Disabilities (PWLD). We evolved from a drama group at a local day centre formed in 2000 to an established Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2016. Our mission is to improve the life opportunities and aspirations of PWLD and to challenge their discrimination in society.
We work directly with 60 Misfits Members (PWLD) every week through our creative programme, including poetry, drama, wellbeing, and dance workshops. Members organise and join in social activities, like our monthly social nightclubs ‘Rhythm of the Night’. We deliver performances and training events for professionals in private and voluntary sectors, of which half are medical students and people who work directly with PWLD in Bristol.
The objects of the CIO are.
1) The advancement of education of people with learning disabilities ranging from those with moderate learning disabilities to those with profound and complex needs in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Bath and Northeast Somerset and the provision of facilities for recreation of said people in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life.
2) To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people with learning disabilities from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of their learning disabilities and assisting them to integrate into society, particularly but not exclusively by the provision of a local network, support and advocacy group providing creative and social opportunities for people with learning disabilities in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Bath & Northeast Somerset.
