Our mission is to build community in Wheelock, to encourage neighbors to get to know and trust one another. We seek to create economic and social opportunities for all residents, including elders, families, working people, and non-residents, to develop a vibrant town.

Thanks to all who participated in the spring, fall and holiday food drives! June - 12 boxes and $662.00; November - 22 boxes and $455.00; and December - 10 boxes (+2 toy boxes) and $465.00 in donations. Total: 44 boxes and $1582.00 in donations.

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Our financial donations help the Pantry make purchases from the VT Foodbank at a substantial discount. Write your check out to Sheffield Food Pantry and mail it to Town of Wheelock, PO Box 1328, Lyndonville VT 05851. Thank you!

Another success! This is the sole fundraiser for Wheelock Community Initiative. Thanks to all who participated. Various other Wheelock and Sheffield residents held yard sales the same day. We hope everyone enjoyed themselves, found great bargains and reduced the load on our waste stream with "re-homing" usable goods.

The Energy Fair on May 17, 2025  at Town Hall was a big hit! Folks from eight area agencies provided weatherization help and information about rebates to 46 attendees. The Town utilized funding from the state's Municipal Energy Resilience Program (MERP) and appreciated support from Wheelock Community Initiative to put on the event. See photos here.

Wheelock’s "big" Little Library at Town Hall is monitored and frequently restocked.  Feel free to come and bring or take a book or a game. A big thank you goes to Tim Scott Real Estate for covering cost of materials for volunteer Paul St. Jean to make repairs to the door.

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The "little" Little Library built by students at St. Johnsbury Academy is retired for the winter but will be back in the spring at Chandler Pond Farm on the farm stand porch. See photos here. 

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We deliver welcome baskets to new, year-round residents and sympathy baskets to the families of recently deceased Wheelock residents.  

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In 2025, we created and delivered 4 sympathy baskets and 9 welcome baskets  Green Mountain Books, The White Market, and Two Tamales continue to donate to the baskets.

With support from an AARP mini-grant in 2023, we conducted a walkability audit along Rte. 122 in Wheelock village. The route is a busy, east-west connector between Rtes. 5, 16 and Interstate 89. No safe pathways, and traffic speeds above the posted 35 mph signs make it unsafe for walking and force residents to drive within the village. Thank you to the Town of Wheelock for serving as our fiscal sponsor. Read more. 

We worked alongside the Town of Wheelock with Vermont Council on Rural Development Community Visit Program on the Wheelock’s Future forums in 2020. Read the Wheelock report here.