What we’re about
Please join the SocialLight Meetup group.
Feedback required on proposed changes to the running and future plans for the SocialLight Group
Please view the group's Message boards section on our Meetup page for further details.
This group is now private. When answering the joining questions, replying to the questions when requesting to join this group, contact details and other sensitive, private and confidential information are now private and will be kept private.
Members list is now private and only visible to existing joined members and contact details and other details provided is no longer public and will not be shown to everyone else across the rest of the entire Meetup site.
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT AND UPDATE ON CHANGES:
Members with disabilities on Meetup are no longer required to have a profile photo. Members can now request to join this group without a profile photo. Upon requesting to join, members must provide a genuine, working mobile number of their own if they do not have a profile photo of themselves. Failure to provide their mobile number will result in cancelling their request to join. New joining members without a profile photo of themselves must text their real full name and send a photo of themselves on WhatsApp to the group organiser's mobile number on 07835420497
SocialLight – 18-45 Social/Support Group – Connecting Disabled People Together
Hello! Thanks so much for stopping by and viewing our Meetup group.
This group is for people with disabilities only. Please be sure to join our group if you are interested in attending our meetups.
Our events are primarily social group and support group get-together meetups for disabled people to come together and meet over a coffee and lunch once a month. The meetups are for people who live with disabilities to come together and meet for social interaction to chat, socialise, meet new people and make new friends, have a drink and something to eat, and to also be used as a support group to share and discuss worries, problems and any issues they are having.
The aim and objective of the meetups are to improve the social life, mental health and wellbeing of disabled people, to get them more active and socially engaging and interacting with others and to remove their anxiety, depression, isolation and loneliness.
DONATIONS AND TIPS ARE WELCOME
Donations and tips are welcome. Do please donate what you can and give us a tip to help SocialLight's future, potential expansion, and to help with running and admin costs. A new ticket has been added for donations and tips.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
Face masks are no longer compulsory and not required to be worn on the premises. It is your choice whether you want to wear one or not.
There is a first aid box available on site should any group member have any small, minor incidences and injuries. Any major or severe accidents need to be addressed by the emergency services.
There is also a defibrillator attached to the wall outside.
Members can request for their food and drink to be served in disposable boxes and plastic utensils. If you wish for this, please let a member of staff know when ordering.
If you are interested, please join this group and keep an eye out for updates and announcements and dates of the running of the group and venue details.
View our SocialLight Eventbrite homepage: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/imran-at-sociallight18-45-socialsupport-group-30964940851
Please remember to view each event’s dedicated event page on Meetup and Eventbrite to RSVP and register your attendance and to view event and venue details. Also, please check on a regular basis for updates and announcements on event time and venue changes.
Please view our Eventbrite event pages to buy your ticket and to view ticket purchasing details before attending our events.
Please note that the total number of RSVPs and group members in the ‘Going’ list will not always reflect and relate to the actual number of members registered to attend and the total number of attendees will not be accurate from our Meetup list.
Please purchase your ticket from our Eventbrite page to secure and guarantee your space and to register your attendance. RSVPing and registering your name down in the ‘Going’ list on Meetup only shows and expresses your interest and notifies other members that you will be going to our event. We will not accept your RSVP on Meetup as your registration to attend our event.
We have also set up a WhatsApp group for the group as well. If you really want to start chatting, socialising and meeting everyone and make new friends right now, please private message Imran your mobile number on the Meetup site or send him a message on WhatsApp on the number at the end of this page and we will be happy to add you into the group.
RULES FOR MEETUP EVENTS, FACEBOOK, FACEBOOK MESSENGER, REDDIT/SUBREDDIT AND WHATSAPP GROUP
Hello, and a very warm welcome to the SocialLight group.
On behalf of the admins and organisers here at SocialLight, we warmly welcome you and thank you for joining our group. We are a very friendly, relaxed community where members can chat about anything and everything within reason and boundaries, interact, socialise, meet and get to know members in our groups before attending our meetups and hopefully make new friends.
We hope you enjoy your time with us and make good friendships in our community.
New joining members and existing members must be a UK citizen and must have a disability to join the SocialLight WhatsApp, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, subreddit and Meetup groups and to attend our in-person meetups.
Members must be living in the UK with a disability to join!
Parents and carers/guardians are allowed to join the SocialLight Facebook group and the 18-45 age limit will not be applied to them. If you are a parent or a carer/guardian and wish to join, please let us know.
To ensure a very friendly, lively, happy and safe atmosphere, members must respect each other and be respectful and considerate of members’ mental health, wellbeing, feelings, honour, dignity and integrity when engaging in friendly banter and friendly joking.
To protect and ensure our members’ safety, security, mental health, wellbeing, privacy and confidentiality, we ask you to obey and comply with following our major rules for our online community and for attending our meetups.
All members will be given three chances and three strike warnings for breeching any of the minor rules unless otherwise stated. After three strikes, members will be removed from our groups but can still attend our meetups. Members will be allowed back into the groups at the discretion and decision of the admins.
The following major rules are strictly not allowed for whatever reason under all circumstances.
Major rules
Zero tolerance and strict prohibition on the following major rules:
• THIS IS NOT A DATING GROUP
• No flirting or any dirty, sexual behaviour allowed which disturb and cause discomfort towards the opposite sex. This will not be tolerated at all!
• Sexual harassment is strictly prohibited and will not be tolerated
• Excessive and extreme swearing, use of bad/strong obscene and vulgar language is strictly prohibited
• Bullying in all shapes and forms is strictly forbidden and will not be tolerated
• Offensive name-calling to cause upset and hurt, cussing, cursing and swearing at other members is strictly prohibited and forbidden under all circumstances and this will not be tolerated at all!
• No mocking, ridiculing, degrading, defaming, debasing, belittling, bullying and insulting other members
• No condescending behaviour allowed
• No derogatory remarks and personal attacks against any member
• No sexual and explicit chats allowed
• No sexual, lewd, nude, pornographic, explicit content to be posted in any of our groups and on the Meetup group and event community pages
• No gossiping negatively about other members causing them harm
• No badmouthing other members
• No racism allowed
• Respect other members’ religions, faiths, beliefs and ethnic backgrounds
• Possession of drugs is strictly prohibited and will be asked to leave the event immediately and will be banned from our groups and attending our events if this happens again for the second time
• Physically aggressive, violent and disorderly behaviour from members will not be tolerated at our events and will be asked to leave and will be permanently banned from our entire online network and attending our events if this behaviour is repeated again for the second time.
Members will only be given one warning and one more chance to stop this behaviour or face permanent ban and removal from the WhatsApp group and attending our events.
Minor rules
• Excessive swearing, use of bad/strong and obscene language is not allowed
• All advertising and promoting of any material and content, including advertising and promoting other groups, is strictly not allowed in our SocialLight groups. Members must seek permission and approval from an admin before posting in our groups.
• Smoking and possession of cigarettes, and drinking alcohol and any alcoholic drinks at any of our events is strictly prohibited on the premises and will be confiscated from the member. Refusal and failure to comply will be asked to smoke and drink the alcoholic drink outside.
• New joining members must type or voice message an introduction and introduce themselves to all other members in our groups whether it be voice messaging or typing so all other existing members know who you are. Failure to do so after a few weeks will result in a temporary removal from the groups but you can request to rejoin.
• New joining members must voice message in the groups at least once upon joining and their first voice message must include them talking for more than 5 seconds. Failure to do so will face temporary removal but you can request to rejoin.
• Members must be active and talking in the groups.
• Members must not be inactive in the groups for no longer than one month or will be removed out of the group.
• Members can re-join the groups and can contact an admin to request to be added back into the group.
• Please talk to members in our groups.
• Do not private message members without seeking and obtaining their permission from them in the group first.
• For the benefit and inclusion of our blind and visually impaired members, please provide alt text and description captions to all and any picture/image you post in our online communities, describing what is in the images and what the images are, so that our blind and visually impaired members do not miss out on the content that is being posted in the group.
We advise that If you do decide to private message members in the WhatsApp group and on Facebook Messenger without their permission, you must introduce yourself to them and tell them how and where you got their number and ask if they would like to chat with you or not.
Please note that It is the choice and decision of the members and at their discretion if they don’t want to talk to you and to ignore your messages or block you from receiving unsolicited private messages from you.
Please do not abruptly/suddenly cut off communication and do not abuse and misuse the block function when communicating with members in private chats. We are a support group as well as a social group and all members are supposed to be here for one another, listen to each other what issues and problems they are having and/or going through and help and support each other through their hardships, struggles and difficult/bad times.
Please think carefully before blocking a member and be more understanding, supportive, empathetic and sympathetic when they talk to you openly and speak their mind, thoughts and feelings.
Please report to an admin if any problems and/or any issues/problems arise.
For any queries and questions and if any important or urgent issues or emergencies, please contact one of the admins of our online groups or an organiser or host at our events.
We ask you to resolve all issues and disputes between yourselves before involving and seeking assistance and intervention from any of our team.
Please also note that we will not be held responsible and liable for any communications and disputes between members outside of our online group and outside of our events. We will not interfere and be directly involved in members’ friendships but we can assist if any major fallouts and disputes happen.
If you have any further queries and questions, please do not hesitate to contact Imran.
Thanks for reading and we hope you enjoy the group.
Imran
Founder and organiser for SocialLight Social/Support Group – Connecting Disabled People Together
E-mail: sociallightsw19@gmail.com
Mobile: 07835420497