[access-uk] Fw: :Reminder! Your vote is needed for the National Lottery Awards 2006!
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please vote!
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Subject: [SPAM]::Reminder! Your vote is needed for the National Lottery
Awards 2006!
Reminder! Your vote is needed for the National Lottery Awards 2006!
The Cinema Audio Description listings service from ÅYour Local Cinema .comÂ
has been short-listed for a National Lottery Award.
Your vote is needed to make the finals! Only a few days left to vote!
Making it to the finals will really help to spread awareness of audio
described cinema.
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Please call 0845 434 9073 to VOTE!
Calls from a landline cost less than two pence. No need to speak! ItÂs
automated. Just hang up after a few seconds. No more than 20 votes allowed
per office/school etc. phone line.
ItÂs as easy as that!
The overall winners will be announced during a special BBC National Lottery
television show in the autumn.
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Why bother to vote?
ThereÂs no prize money, and itÂs no big deal really, but voting could help
us to secure further funding, which will help to keep us going. (Our
funding runs out at Christmas  gulp!).
Voting tells the Lottery board, and the UK film industry, that the work we
do matters, and should be continued.
Many votes will show that our service makes a real difference, and enables
people with a visual or hearing problem to enjoy the popular social
activity of cinema going.
Also, if we do well in the awards, itÂs a great opportunity to use the
exposure to remind the film industry that the access issue needs to be kept
high on the agenda.
A lot of people WANT to enjoy films at cinemas but CANNOT, as many cinemas
and films are still not accessible.
So, we need your help.
Votes must be in by 11th August so please VOTE NOW!, and get your friends
to vote too.
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The National Lottery Awards are about celebrating the difference Lottery
funding has made. TheyÂre the annual celebration of the nationÂs favourite
lottery-funded projects, as voted for by the public.
They shine a light on some of the outstanding projects recognising the
talent, dedication and sheer hard work of people who are doing amazing
things with Lottery funding.
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About YOUR LOCAL CINEMA .COM:
The last few years have seen a revolution in the world of cinema, for those
with a visual or hearing impairment.
Subtitled and audio described (narrated) versions of almost all popular
films are available in around 200 cinemas across the UK. Thousands of
sensory impaired people and their families can now enjoy thousands of
accessible shows every month.
But until recently these screenings were not widely publicised, and the
UKÂs five million people who have some form of hearing or visual impairment
had little or no idea about how to access these services.
With the help of Lottery funding from the UK Film Council, voluntary group
Your Local Cinema .com set up a service via internet, email, talking
website, web over phone service, and 24hr manned call centre, to campaign
for a better service for disabled people, and to enable people to find out
when and where subtitled and audio described films were playing.
Your Local Cinema .com helps visually or hearing impaired people to enjoy
cinema. The service benefits thousands of people each week and has created
a permanent resource for visually or hearing impaired people across the UK.
...Going to the cinema is an entertaining social occasion that most people
take for granted, but that many people with a visual or hearing impairment
struggle to enjoy. A profoundly deaf boy set this project up whilst still
at school, and its great that so many cinemas have got involved to make
cinema going more accessible to so many people...
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