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Free cinema tickets for unpaid carers
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Many cinemas provide free tickets for unpaid carers when you accompany the person you care for.
How to claim
Many cinemas provide free tickets for unpaid carers when you accompany the person you care for. To access this, you usually need to have what is known as a CEA Card. These are issued through a national scheme run by the UK Cinema Association. They cost £6 and last for one year.
Around 90% of cinemas in the UK provide free tickets to carers with one of these cards, but it is worth checking that the cinema you want to go to is one of them. You can find out by putting in your postcode here.
To be eligible for a CEA Card, the person you care for must be aged 8 years old or above and receive one of these benefits:
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
- Attendance Allowance (AA).
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
- Armed Forces Independence Payment (AFIP).
They are also eligible if they are registered as Severely Sight Impaired or Sight Impaired. See our article ‘Caring for someone with sight loss’ for further details about how to register the person you care for.
If none of these apply to the person you care for, but they do still have a disability that means they need someone to help them at the cinema, you can contact the CEA Card scheme directly to discuss your particular circumstances with them and see whether they will still issue you with a card.
To find out more, take a look at the CEA Card website.