Cinema remains a popular (but expensive) befriending activity. This information should help you save money for your matched family:

Kids’ Clubs

Vue cinemas (e.g. Cribbs Causeway) have a good deal: there‘s a film on that costs 95p for adults/children (but adults need a child with them) on Saturday and Sunday mornings. This also seems to apply to everyday in the school holidays (usually around 10am). See www.myvue.com , choose cinema and then ‘hot offers‘. There are also teenage films for £1.95 (see here) and 3D films for £2.95.

Cineworld, Hengrove Leisure Park, Hengrove Way, Bristol, 0871 200 2000. £1 (incl fun and games) one adult admitted free when accompanied by a child. Saturday mornings (check dates and films). See www.cineworld.co.uk/films/junior . Scroll down to the bottom of the listings for the Bristol cinema and you‘ll see the £1 films

Cinékids is at the Watershed (Canon‘s Rd, near the Fountains in the Centre) once a month. It is usually 1pm on the 3rd Saturday of the month (check their calendar) and is aimed at children aged 8-12. Cost £2 per child and £3.50 for adults (adults need to be accompanied by a child). There are often creative activities related to the film afterwards. e.g. a street dance workshop in July 2010.

Odeon (Union Street, Broadmead). £1 and one adult admitted free with a child. See here and look for the parent and child icon (Saturday and Sunday).

Cinema discounts

CEA cards enable a disabled person to take someone else into the cinema with them for free (e.g. their befriender or parent). The cards cost £5.50 and last a year so they pay for themselves the first time you use them. See www.ceacard.co.uk  to apply.

 “The CEA Card is the national concessionary card developed by the Association to allow people with disabilities to obtain one free ticket for a person accompanying them to the cinema. Around 90 per cent of UK cinemas now support the scheme, ranging from the large national chains to smaller independent operators. Further details on the scheme can be found on the CEA Card website here. (This site may open in a new window)”. At the moment it seems to cost £5.50 and last one year. This means that one befriender or parent can go to the cinema free each time they are with a young person who has a valid CEA card.

This website: www.artsline.org.uk will give you accessibility information about different venues, including cinemas. If you follow this link: www.yourlocalcinema.com/ad.bristol.html you will see a list of current films in Bristol which have audio descriptions (for people who are visually impaired).

Disabled children who have parents on a low income are likely to be eligible for a scheme which gives out free computers and assistive technology.

The best thing is to phone up to apply: 0333 200 1004

Or phone for more information: 0800 877 8777 | 024 7641 6994
To find out more online see this link.

Please could volunteers pass this information onto families who don’t have a computer (as they probably won’t be online to read this!)?

The people at Zambezi Express have offered our befriendees and befrienders a great deal for the show next week. You need certain items and more information to prove who you are, so please email Jenny to get this information (this entry is deliberately elusive!).

To find out more about the show see www.zambeziexpress.com/index.htm

The SS Great Britain have taken the initiative to get in touch with us to update their disabled access details.

Carers go free with a disabled child / adult.  Young people aged 16 and under pay £5.95 and under 4s are free.  We have asked about concessions for disabled people which currently they do not offer (the discount is for the carer). 

They have specially narrow wheelchairs on site to allow access through cabins etc and a lift cleverly built in to the funnel!  It might make a good day activity for befrienders and befriendees. 

Deaf & hard of hearing visitors:

• British Sign Language (BSL)hand-held interactive video tours. Please ask at the Ticket Office. Pre-booking advised Choice of BSL video tour foradults or children 

Blind & partially sighted visitors

• Please ask at the Ticket Office for audio companion tours for blind and partially sighted visitors, and for the tactile model of the ss Great Britain. Pre-booking advised Guide and assistance dogs are welcome. A sighted assistant is recommended for your visit

Events

There are also lots of events on (the ticket for the SS Great Britain in annual, so you can keep going back to do activities there). Click here to see what’s on at the moment.

For example, in May you can:

May 16, 17 & 23
Dream boats
Create giant paper boats for the launch

May 23 to 31
Mr Brunel visits
Meet Britain’s greatest engineer (except May 26)

May 25
Dream boats launch spectacular 6.15pm & 9pm (night glow)
Watch the stunning paper boats take to the harbour

May 29 & 30
Sinbad’s sea chests
Transform card, paint, glitter, and feathers, into art

In June:

June 21
Father’s Day treat
Dads enjoy a FREE beer 

In the Summer Holidays:

July 25 to September 2

Sinbad the Ship’s Cat trail Explore the ship, with Sinbad

Mr Brunel visits (except Mondays & Aug 27)

August 1 & 2 Bristol Harbour Festival 

Join the fun with an authentic steam fairground carousel, plus Victorian games

August 1, 8, 15 & 29 Sticky ships

Make stunning collages, with an artist

August 22 & 23

Crimean troopship

Take cover! Soldier re-enactors from the Crimean War. Victorian surgeon Seek out medical advice from the ship’s doctor. Leech included! 

Venue details:

Brunel’s ss Great Britain, Great Western Dockyard, Bristol BS1 6TY

Opening times:

Open daily, from 10am, except Dec 24 and 25, and Jan 11, 2010. Closing times: 4.00pm (Jan, Nov & Dec), 4.30pm (Feb & March), 5.30pm (April 1 to Oct 23), 4.30pm (Oct 24 to Oct 31). Last ticket sales one hour before closing

General office, and bookings: 0117 926 0680

Inclusion Club

Thursday, 19 Mar 2009

Type: Youth clubs

Location: Hartcliffe

Venue: Hareclive Youth Centre, BS13 0HP [google maps]

Organiser: Hartcliffe and Withywood Youth Project

Time: 19:00 – 21:30 (2 hours 30 minutes)

Description:

Contact: For details about club contact Jacky Eddy Tel 0117 9038017. Hartcliffe and Withywood Youth Project. 

Additional info: 70p. Transport provided – contact Brentry Lodge Youth Centre on 0117 3773647 for details.

Please note this information was copied from www.goplacesdothings.org.uk. You should double check the details before attending.

- free cinema tickets for carers (parents or volunteers)

How to apply for a carer’s card to accompany disabled children or adults to the cinema for free:

See also http://www.ceacard.co.uk/.

This is a national card that can be used to verify that the holder is entitled to one free ticket for a person accompanying them to the cinema. To apply for the card, you (or the child you are caring for) will need to meet one or more of the following criteria:a) Be in receipt of the disability living allowance or attendance allowance.b) Be a registered blind person.The card is valid for 3 years from the date of issue. A processing fee of five pounds is chargeable per card. This is to be sent along with the completed application. If this is difficult, it maybe that Time2Share could help out if you are going to go to the cinema as a befriending activity (so contact us if the price is putting you off). This is a good value card as the price equivalent to one cinema ticket will give you unlimited cinema access as a carer (you will need to be with the paying disabled person obviously, and they keep the card!).

Participating cinemas in Bristol which I spotted on the site are:
CINEWORLD – www.cineworld.co.uk
ODEON CINEMAS LTD – www.odeon.co.uk
REELTIME CINEMAS LTD – www.reeltime-cinemas.co.uk
VUE ENTERTAINMENT – www.myvue.co.uk