FUNNY Minds (don’t think alike)

Charity comedy night for Key to joy’s Big Give Christmas Campaign

  • When: Sunday 8th December - 6.30pm-10.30pm

  • Where: FAREHAM SOCIAL CLUB, 8 Mill Road, Fareham, PO16 0TN

  • Cost: Donations from £15 + (available from 12pm 3rd December)

An absolutely smashing line up of comedians have joined the bill to help us raise funds during the BigGive Christmas Challenge 3-10 December, raising funds for a new venue.

Over 50% of the comedians performing are neurodivergent

Everything we do is about bringing joy to our members, adults with learning difficulties and neurodiversity, so we’re absolutely thrilled that many of the comedians booked are also neurodivergent and understand first-hand both the challenges and the reasons to celebrate all that they are through comedy.

Get your ticket/s

Pay what you decide to donate from £15 per ticket

All tickets are donations. All proceeds are donations for Key to joy’s Big Give Christmas campaign. For those able to afford it, please pay more than £15 to donate to our cause and help us make double the difference in the Big Give campaign.

Tickets will go on sale during the BigGive campaign period from 12pm 3rd December. They will be available directly from Fareham Social Club over the bar (Mon-Thursday from 7pm or Friday 10am-close) -- an online link will also be provided. If you buy tickets online, they will be available to collect before the event or at the door. Alternatively, members and friends can get them directly from Key to joy. Check back here after 12pm 3rd December for the ticket link or join our Facebook event for updates below…

*Due to Fareham Social club’s licensing regulations names will need to be assigned to each ticket purchased and captured

Get to know the comedians performing:

  • Paul McCaffrey - Paul has recently been heard on: talkSPORT, Absolute's The Alternative Vote, Rob Beckett's Rock 'n' Roll Football and Russell Kane's Whistle-Stop Tour on BBC Radio 2. He also presents The Paul McCaffrey Show every Saturday morning on Jack FM.

  • Joe Wells - Portsmouth local Joe, is a wonderful addition. In 2020 Joe went viral with his stand up clip 'Joe Wells on having a non-autistic brother' which gained over 4.5 million views across Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. Joe co-hosts the Neurodivergent Moments podcast and, in 2022, his second book, ‘Wired Differently; 30 Neurodivergent People Who You Should Know’ was published. Before he was a full time writer and comedian Joe facilitated a co-production group for young people with SEND which was highlighted as an example of good practice by CQC and OFSTED. In 2023 Joe embarked on his first solo tour selling out venues of up to 300.

  • Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer - A British parodist who performs "chap hop" — hip hop delivered in a Received Pronunciation accent. Mr.B raps, or "rhymes", about good manners, dressing with style and dignity, sophisticated society, pipe smoking and cricket while playing the banjolele. 

  • Sunjai Arif  - Local comedian and neurodivergent, Sunjai has a number of awards; Winner "Bath Comedy Festival New Act 2017". Runner up “South Coast Comedian of the Year 2016”. Finalist “Max Turner prize 2016”. Runner up for the 2018 Guide Awards: Best Comedian. Sunjai got me a lot of the other acts! Neurodivergent.

  • Emma Ashley-King - Our MC (host for the night), Emma is neurodivergent and the hilarious and acceptable face of fandom. Comic cons, Cosplay, autograph-stalking she’s seen it all, done it all and extracted all the humour and put it into her material. Never predictable, always hilarious, Emma makes the world of geekdom a joyful and funny place. (Matt Roseblade). Emma is entertainingly relatable (Dan Churchley of Solent Comedy).

  • Natalie Bryce - Another local, Natalie Bryce is a Scottish comedian who has been described as the answer to “satire and debauchery”. She was Scottish Comedian of the Year Finalist 2018, winner of the Hot Water Comedy Roast Battle 2019, Backyard Comedy Club Knockout Finalist April 2022 and South Coast Comedian of the Year Semi-Finalist 2022. She is the spectacle wearing friend of the group who gets herself in strange situations! “Her gregarious personality engages” Chortle.

More on our line-up…

Enjoy a great night and make double the difference for our charity

Key to joy are part of the BigGive Christmas Challenge this year, and better yet we’ve secured Hampshire Cricket Foundation as our champion funder. This comedy night is our biggest opportunity to generate much-needed funds for our campaign and make our target by 12pm 10th December.

How will the funds be used?

Our Big Give target is £8,750k, which will receive match-funding from our pledge and our champion funder, The Hampshire Cricket Foundation to make double the difference, meaning we’d raise £17,500 to find a new premises for our growing charity, a home from home for our members. Watch our campaign video to learn more.