A theatre and arts group for adults with learning disabilities is opening a new filming suite in memory of one of its stars.

The Big Soup, in Keighley, which played its own starring role in 21-year-old Nathan Brotherhead’s life, will be honouring him later this year.

It plans to name the state-of-the art recording studio and editing suite after him and put up a plaque.

The new suite will cost around £7,000 – Nathan’s family has already donated £1,000 towards the cost from a collection at his funeral.

Nathan, who had moderate learning disabilities and was born with liver disease, got to the top of the UK’s transplant waiting list and was given a new organ on September 15 but then had a blood clot and needed a new one.

A second liver became available but surgeons said it was too big and broke the news he would only be able to survive for another two or three days at the most.

But the former Branshaw School student bravely fought on and nine days later was given the transplant doctors at St James’s Hospital, in Leeds, thought would save his life.

Sadly, his other vital organs began to fail, he went on dialysis, caught an infection and had a heart attack, spending three months in intensive care.

Just before he died he was transferred to Martin House Hospice where he passed away surrounded by his family.

His mum Joanne McCreath, of Felbrigg Avenue, Keighley, said his death had left a massive hole in their lives.

“He loved the Big Soup, he loved being involved in the theatrical world and loved being in the limelight – he was an absolute love, always smiling and happy despite his illness.

“This last year he spent so much time in bed he was so ill but it was the one thing he would get up for. The Big Soup, in Springfield Mills, Oakworth Road, is a self-funding social enterprise where people pay to go but the money is pumped straight back into the initiative and its facilities, which as well as theatre, dance and music workshops includes a bistro, hairdressers and coffee shop – also open to the public.