A theatre and arts group for adults with learning disabilities is opening a 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.

They plan to name their state-of-the art recording studio and editing suite after the young man, who died after undergoing a liver transplant.

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

His mum Joanne McCreath, of Felbrigg Avenue, Keighley, said: “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. It was a big part of his life going there a couple of days a week, it’s such a vibrant place and it’s where he fell in love. To have this studio named after him would have meant the world to Nathan.”

Nathan, who had moderate learning disabilities and was born with liver disease, received a liver transplant but a blood clot meant it failed and his other vital organs began to fail after a second transplant operation and he died.

The Big Soup in Springfield Mills, Oakworth Lane, is a self-funding social enterprise with facilities including workshops, a bistro, hairdressers and coffee shop.

Big Soup director Tracey Venyige said: “We wanted to do something special for someone so special, naming our new studio after him is just perfect.”