Manchester Imagination Library
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Cheetham, Harpurhey, Clayton and Openshaw, Gorton and Abbey Hey, Longsight, Levenshulme, Whalley Range, City-Wide
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1177843
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Description:
Gorton Imagination Library (working name Manchester Imagination Library) is a book-gifting project which was launched in 2015 and is affiliated to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library but is a stand-alone charity. A free, high quality, age-appropriate book is posted every single month to children in their own home from birth to age 5 years, with the aim of:
• Encouraging a love of reading for pleasure.
• Increasing the frequency of reading in the home.
• Supporting the development of early literacy skills
• Supporting the children to be ready for school
• Encouraging a love of reading for pleasure.
• Increasing the frequency of reading in the home.
• Supporting the development of early literacy skills
• Supporting the children to be ready for school
Services delivered:
We act as a local group under the banner of the Dollywood Foundation's Imagination Library www.imaginationlibrary.com/uk . We work with schools, children's centres and other local early years providers to engage families in early literacy through the provision of free books to children from birth to 5 years.
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Face to face, Online/digitally
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Cash donations:
Through a link from our website to Imagination Library UK https://imaginationlibrary.com/uk/ . Our Affiliate code is MAN - Gorton Imagination Library.
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