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Looking for autism friendly things to do? Find out about Dimensions’ autism friendly cinemas, libraries, museums and Belong by GAME Arenas here:

Each venue’s autism friendly training is tailored to their environment and guests.

Adjustments include reduced sensory stimulation, increased signage and autism training for staff.

Our training is developed with autism and industry experts, so it works for both our guests and the venues.

If your autism friendly venue is not listed, get in touch.

Our partners

- ODEON, Cineworld, Vue, Showcase, Picturehouse and Everyman cinemas together with the UK Cinema Association and BFI Film Audience Network

The Association of Senior Children’s and Education Librarians and Libraries Connected
Belong by GAME
We’re encouraging more independent cinemas, libraries and museums to take our free training and find their place on our autism friendly map.

Find an autism friendly environment near you. And why not share our free training with a venue that matters to you?

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Timeline of autism friendly environments

Cinemas, libraries, museums and Belong By GAME Arenas across the country are doing their part to become autism friendly. Here’s the story behind our national initiative…

1. ODEON screened Jim Carrey comedy, Mr Popper’s Penguins, at over 40 sites to over 3,000 guests.

2. Cineworld screened festive favourite, Nativity 2, at over 80 cinemas. The event was even tweeted about by star of the film, David Tennant.

3. Vue was the third cinema chain to join and screened the turtley amazing, Sammy’s Great Escape at over 70 cinemas to over 1,000 guests.

4. Showcase screened Hotel Transylvania at all of their sites, welcoming over 250 guests to the spooky screening.

5. Dimensions launched national autism friendly libraries training, free and available to use for every library.

6. Autism friendly screenings celebrated its 5 year anniversary, having shown: 110 films, at 200 screenings, across 311 cinemas with almost 300,000 visits.

7. Dimensions worked with Belong by GAME to launch a trial of autism friendly Belong Arenas in Manchester, York, Cardiff and Bristol.

8. Showcase Southampton welcomed guests for a special autism friendly screening and to star in our new cinema training video.

9. By the end of 2018, attendance at autism friendly cinema screenings reached almost 400,000 visits. We’re proud to welcome new and regular guests each month.

10. Emma, Dimensions Quality Checker, was commissioned to carry out the first autism friendly audit of libraries and museums in the north.

11. Already running autism friendly screenings, Picturehouse partner with us to benefit from our expert training and support. Their first film with us was Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse.

12. Dimensions and our autism friendly partners were thrilled to be presented with an award by the International Moving Image Society.

13. We celebrated World Autism Awareness Week by announcing new autism friendly training for every cinema, library and museum in the UK to use.

14. Everyman cinemas join the autism friendly partnership and become the 6th cinema chain to commit to regular autism friendly screenings.

15. Belong Arenas with GAME begin rolling out autism friendly adjustments to most of their venues.

16. We continue to ask independent cinemas, libraries and museums to take our training and apply to be included in our online directories.