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Celebrating 13 years with the Young Readers Programme

We’re celebrating 13 years in partnership with the Young Readers Programme – the award-winning initiative from our co-owner British Land and the National Literacy Trust, which aims to encourage children to read outside of the classroom. As part of this year’s celebrations, we welcomed 308 children from Bedenham Primary School, Holbrook Primary School and St […]

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Book Chat: How to Talk Your Child into a Love of Reading

Did you know that reading can support your child’s mental wellbeing?

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Summer Stories: 20 Top Books to Inspire Children to Read During the Holidays

We’ve worked with the National Literacy Trust to compile 20 top books for little ones of all ages

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Whiteley Doggie Day 2024

We loved the paw-some event.

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Bottle Tops to Benches

After a successful ‘Bottle Top’ project last year where Whiteley encouraged customers to donate hard-to-recycle bottle tops, which were then repurposed into a colourful art mural onsite.

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Autism Friendly Sessions

Some of the retailers in Whiteley have special times that could be beneficial to customers with Autism or sensory differences.

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Whiteley Book Swap

Whiteley Shopping Centre has unveiled a new book swap area for visitors to share and exchange books for free.

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Bottle Tops to Benches

The Bottle Top Project, this is a new project we are collecting bottle tops until end of April 2024. The new project is called Bottle Tops to Benches, we have collected over 80k bottle tops so far and still need more. We are aiming to collect as many as we can in order to get […]

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Buskerteers Choir flashmob at Whiteley

Fundraising for Comic Relief