Offers to make lockdown a little easier
We hope you and your families have been keeping well and staying safe.
Lockdown life has been difficult for a lot of us, but things are starting to gradually re-open, with social distancing measures in place to protect us.
This month there's a free tennis offer, free online comedy, online adult education courses and of course, there's the rescheduled Festival of Running when hopefully things will be more back to 'normal'.
Staying safe is important, so our sign-up centres are still closed. You can email us if you need to validate any proof of address or benefits on your account and we'll delete copies once we've validated them.
Unfortunately due to a technical glitch, some of you may have had emails asking you to pop into a centre to validate your account or collect a card. You can collect any cards when our centres re-open.
Take care and #staysafe
Go CV team
Free tennis for Go CV cardholders
On 6 and 7 June, Go CV cardholders can play tennis for free at the War Memorial Park!
All you have to do is book your place and take your own balls and racquets. Social distancing rules apply.
Courts usually cost £7 per hour or £4 for Go CV+ cardholders. If you book a session for 6 or 7 June it will be completely free!
Try tap dancing for free!
If you've ever wanted to try tap dancing, there are two free sessions online from the Adult Education Service.
The FREE sessions are on 5 June and 12 June from 12.45 - 1.15pm via Microsoft Teams.
Fees apply for remainder 5 sessions 19 June to 17 June.
Course full fees; £4.40; Over 60s; £3.35 GoCV+ £3.00
See Adult Education Service webpage for more information or to enrol.
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Go CV+ cardholders can also benefit from heavily reduced courses, many of which are currently online.
Follow the Facebook page or check the website for courses available.
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Half price tickets at Coombe Abbey Fishery for Go CV+
Go CV+ cardholders can benefit from 50% off tickets at Coombe Abbey Park Fishery.
This means day tickets are as little as £3.00 for adults, £4.00 for a specimen ticket and a midweek adult season ticket is £20.00 with a full season ticket for £60.00.
Coventry Comedy Lockdown Lounge
Comedy Central Live have been offering free live shows streaming on the Coventry Comedy Festival Facebook page.
You can watch the 3 May show with Doug Carter, President Obonjo and Friz Frizzle and other past performances, to bring comedy direct to your living room.
As shows are live and aimed at an adult audience, please bear this in mind when watching.
Festival of Running rescheduled to November
Coventry Festival of Running has a new rescheduled date of 1 November.
Book your place now for the 5k race or Half Marathon where you can benefit from Go CV and Go CV+ entry prices.
Staying active if you're at home
We know lots of you are juggling childcare, schooling and working from home at the moment and although some of us will be starting to go back to work, we still need to make time for ourselves.
Coventry Sport social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter are promoting fun ideas to keep keep active from clubs and organisations all over Coventry. Activities for all age groups and abilities are available making sure the campaign is fully inclusive to #KeepCoventryMoving.
There are lots of other free activities online that you can take part as part of a virtual group or with your family members. Sport England has put together a list of different sessions to keep you motivated as part of their #StayInWorkOut campaign, including sessions for all abilities and those with mobility problems.
Enjoying the outdoors while social distancing
Coventry is lucky to have a number of parks for us to visit and enjoy and car parks at parks have now re-opened.
Please observe strict social distancing and keep at least two metres apart and if you arrange to meet up with another person outside your household, still maintain 2 metres.
Play areas and outdoor gym equipment are still closed to minimise the spread of COVID-19, as well as public toilets.
West Midlands Network has put together some tips on how to safely walk, run or cycle outdoors whilst social distancing.
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Free e-books, online stories and craft videos
Coventry Library service has a number of e-books, e-comics and audiobooks you can hire for free.
If you're a member of the library you can use the Borrow Box App or hire through the website. There are different featured titles each month.
There are also a number of videos you can watch online for younger ones, including storytime, rhymetime and how to make a rainbow bird.
Quinn exhibition now online at The Herbert
Quinn: A journey, the recent exhibition by artist Lottie Davies at The Herbert, can now be viewed online through Google arts.
The exhibition tells the fictional story of a young man, William Henry Quinn, who walks from the south west of England to the far north of Scotland in post-Second World War Britain. Although fictional, the work responds to the real-world experiences of young men and women post-trauma in the early 20th century and now.
There are a number of other collections that you can view online at The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum and other ideas for you in their newsletter.
Passport to Leisure and Learning is merging with Go CV
Over the next few weeks, Passport to Leisure will be merging with Go CV.
If you receive any qualifying benefits, you can either email proof to us whilst sign-up centres are closed, or make sure you get them validated at a sign-up centre when they reopen, so you will have the Go CV+ discount loaded to your card.
Whilst we are still in lockdown, sign-up centres are closed so you cannot collect or validate your card, but you can still register if you don't already have a Go CV account.
Share your stories on Facebook and Twitter
We'd love to see how you've been keeping happy and healthy whilst staying at home. Tag us on Facebook and Twitter and we might re-share your story.
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