Children and young people

We're helping customers provide their children with engaging learning opportunities right from the very start.

We're helping customers provide their children with engaging learning opportunities right from the very start.

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
 

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (DPIL) gifts a book to young children aged 0-5 in Wheatley homes.

The Wheatley Foundation partners with the Imagination Library to provide hundreds of free monthly books to children living in our socially rented homes.  Through this scheme, we provide books to around 600 children every year, with over 23,000 books delivered since 2018.

Once your child is registered, they will receive a free book each month that is personally addressed to them and suited to their age.

The Royal National Institute of Blind People assists in the conversion of select titles to braille and audio books for children in the UK who are blind or partially sighted.

To register your child/children, please speak to your housing officer.

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - in their own words

Hazel, from Scotstoun in Glasgow, signed up her two-year-old daughter Rachael to the scheme.

Hazel said: “Rachael loves the idea of sitting on my knee and reading and looking at pictures. It’s real quality time without modern technology getting in the way. She’s learning new words and learning to concentrate. Reading is so important. It’s giving her a head start for when she starts school later.”