It’s over 12 months since the Sovereign Health Care Charitable Trust’s Good All Round Awards – an online voting campaign which decided how £140,000 was shared between local good causes. We’re revisiting some of the charities that received awards to highlight how the money has helped make a difference to the lives of people in the Bradford district.
In this blog we’re focussing on Canterbury Imagine which received a bronze award in the smaller charity category. This meant the charity received £4,000 to continue the good work that they do locally.
The charity helps to improve literacy and emotional development for under-fives and aims to give them the best possible academic start in life. Youngsters receive a free book through the post every month from their birth right up to their fifth birthday. The children then build up their own ‘imagination library’ of up to 60 quality books, suitable for their age.
Following the Good All Round Awards, the Bradford-based book gifting charity for children is now delivering nearly 50 books a month to a new area of the city.
Run by Jan Winter, Canterbury Imagine extended its book gifting to the Midland Road area of Manningham in April 2014, basing its scheme at the Midland Road Nursery School and Children’s Centre. The 46 babies born in 2014 who live on Midland Road will now receive free books through the post from the charity.
Canterbury Imagine launched in September 2012 in Little Horton, and now delivers more than 400 books a month in the Canterbury area, as well as 150 books a month to looked after children in the care of the local authority.
The charity is affiliated to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, a scheme set up by the American country and western singer, and is the only one of its kind in West Yorkshire.
Midland Road Nursery School and Children’s Centre, next door to Bradford City FC’s stadium, has just over 1,000 under-fives in its catchment area. The Head of Midland Road Nursery School, Sharon Hogan, said the idea of books being delivered by post every month was a real strength of the project, and sessions at the centre would also encourage parents and carers to enjoy sharing books with their babies.
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