To read feedback from users and see venues they have visited.
Please feel free to visit our Max Card feedback repository.

What is a Max Card

Max Cards are similar to Student Union Discount Cards but offer discounts to parents of children with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (up to 25) at a variety of venues and settings e.g. Butlins, Lincolnshire Park Farm, Jorvik Centre, some museums, Go Ape, Bedlam Paintball, Alton Towers ....

For more detailed information please check out the Max Card website which also has an excellent search facility to check out what is near you, or look for activities.
N.B. remember you can check out what settings accept the card at your favourite holiday destinations.
ALSO - Although LPCF are not involved, another separate scheme called CEA Cards operates for participating cinemas and theatres

How Can I Get One?

Background

Firstly let us dispel a myth - Max Cards are NOT FREE although LPCF do issue them to some members for FREE.
LPCF and other issuers have to pay to purchase cards and all the costs associated with distribution and tracking etc.

LPCF volunteers have sought out funding to purchase and administer issuing Max Cards via grant funding and were successful in obtaining this back in 2017 on a trial based upon the funders targets that it would "encourage engagement and participation of parents as well as act as a recruitment incentive for new members to LPCF".

Currently 600+ cards have been issued. From those which have been issued to date LPCF have sought feedback and qualifying evaluation from parents so that we can ensure to funders that the grant funding did meet its targets.
To seek future funding LPCF need any user feedback to build a new funding bid to pay for new / further cards.
Without your feedback we have no evidence to present to grant funders and the cards will eventually cease.
N.B. LPCF do not replace lost Max Cards.

Terms

To request and obtain a Max Card from LPCF we require the following:-

For those who have not had a Card.

Sign Up to LPCF OR make sure your registration is up to date (registrations need to be updated every 4 years to comply with Data Protection Guidelines). Opens in new page

Recently participated or engage in an LPCF activity such as Workshop, Signposting Day, Coffee Event (and complete an qualifying evaluation form where applicable - the option to request a Card is usually embedded in the evaluation form)
Submitted a substantive ‘Your Say’ feedback with details Opens in new page
Submitted a substantive Excellence Award Nomination with details Opens in new page

For those who hold an expiring/expired card.

Update your LPCF registration Opens in new page
Provide feedback on how and where you have used your Max Card, discounts, ease of use etc via email. Open my email , Facebook or Your Say

Recently participated or engage in an LPCF activity such as Workshop, Signposting Day, Coffee Event (and complete an qualifying evaluation form where applicable - the option to request a Card is usually embedded in the evaluation form)
Submitted a substantive ‘Your Say’ feedback with details Opens in new page
Submitted a substantive Excellence Award Nomination with details Opens in new page

Please note that LPCF have recently changed the Max card application process.

We are now having to collect more written feedback to provide to funders / grant givers about what parents are getting out of LPCF and to ensure we are engaging with parents who are actively participating.

The application form previously at the bottom of this page has now been removed.
It was also being misused by individuals who had not qualified.

In future, the only route to an application form will be at the end of one of the number 2. items listed below. Each will measure the written Word and Character feedback count to qualify and an option box to indicate an interest in a Max Card will then appear once qualified, which must be ticked appropriately.

The "Thank You" submission response page will then offer qualifying people an option to visit the Max Card Application page. (This is not a guarentee of qualifing as checks are still required, so please read below.)

Max Card Application

3 steps to obtaining a Max Card

To request and obtain a Max Card from LPCF we require the following:-

1. You MUST be registered and have updated your registration recently.
2. You MUST have recently (in the past 6 months) either

Taken part in a Workshop or activity and provided feedback / qualifying evaluation.
Submitted a recent substantive Excellence Award Nomination.
Made a substantive contribution to our Your Say Feedback on an issue.

Additionally if you have previously been issued a Max Card
3. You MUST have provided written feedback on the use of the Card e.g. times used, where used, benefits and outcomes of having the Max Card

To provide feedback use our simple form and rating system.