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About Family Friendly
Family Friendly is short-hand for a corporate culture or attitude - manifest in staff behaviour, environment, provision of services and product - which makes families feel comfortable, welcomed and listened to. Being “family friendly” means recognising that “families” have distinct - indeed defining - needs which may differ from those of other customers.
All About Audiences, the operators of this site, have had a long standing commitment to Family Friendly, instigating the Family Friendly project in 1998. This led to the development of the Family Friendly guiding principles and logo, later leading to the launch of a dedicated Family Friendly website. Now Family Friendly is joining forces to become part of its sister site Go See This making it easier than ever to find out what's on in Greater Manchester, from exhibitions, to music events, theatre shows and more.
Finding Family Friendly Events
To find out what's on for families, you can click on Events in the menu above in this, the dedicated family friendly section of the site. This will show you a full list of all the family friendly events currently on the website. Alternatively, you can use the Go Find search section to the right. Click on the plus sign next to "find what" to reveal all the event categories used on the website and select "family" to see all the family friendly events. You can also do a more advanced search and find a family event on a specific date by using the "find when" fields as well.
If you're just browing the site in general, you'll be able to spot which events are suitable for families by the presence of the family friendly logo. If the event meets the Family Friendly standards they will be tagged with this logo – a mark of quality that you can trust. The events will also include all those details that we know are essential for families, like age suitability and the running time of the event.
New Features
The site also has some fantastic new features that you can take advantage of, including the ability to create your own profile and manage your interests. You can add comments and reviews or use the planner to help you figure out what to see and when and you can even buy tickets for the things you want to see with the site's secure shopping basket.
News & Competitions
The Family Friendly e-newsletter will still be sent out each month to keep you up to date of what's on around the city and you'll still be able to try your luck at winning some amazing prizes with our Family Friendly competitions.
Extras
Need a bit of help with homework? Perhaps a bit of advice on a parenting issue or even just something to do on a rainy day? Here we have listed some of our favourite sites and organisations for all kinds of occasions.
If we have missed anyone you think other families would find helpful, let us know at familyfriendly@goseethis.com.
Due to the unregulated nature of the internet and the fact that websites are subject to change without notice, we can accept no responsibility for the content of any of the websites appearing in our listings.
Education and Homework
Parenting advice and support
Health
Rainy Day Sites
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Culture 24 - Celebrating the best of the UKs museums and galleries, including daily arts and museum news as well as exhibition reviews and in-depth online trails.
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Show Me - Features free games, activities, puzzles, things to do, competitions, places to go, web-links and news from UK museums and galleries.
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Activity Village - Free colouring pages, kids crafts, activity sheets to print out and other fun activities.
Useful sites for Family Friendly practitioners and policy makers
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Early Arts - Set up by Arts Council England, North West in association with Isaacs UK as a learning, information and support platform for anyone working in, funding, advising, or wishing to work in the arts and early years fields.