Jump into June with Tiny Sparks

With the weather cooling off it’s time to get your body moving!  Jump into June with Tiny Sparks.  Each day has a small fitness challenge to undertake, no prior exercise experience necessary, although you should always clear it with your doctor before embarking on a new exercise regime.  If you are a more seasoned campaigner there is something for you too!  We encourage you to get your entire family involved.

With some of our usual fundraising fun runs cancelled again this year we would love for you to set up a fundraising page and have your friends and family sponsor you to keep you motivated to complete the challenges each day.

Let’s get started!

1. Join our Jump into June Facebook Group to stay motivated throughout the challenge.

2. Set up a fundraising page through Just Giving here: https://www.justgiving.com/tinysparkswainc (If you don’t want to fundraise that’s ok too, consider making a personal donation instead.)

3. Share your fundraising page with your friends and family, remind them that it’s tax deductible and the end of financial year is fast approaching.

4. Stay connected throughout June by posting in the group and sharing to your social media.

5. Make sure you use #tinysparkswa

By joining the Jump into June challenge you’ll be helping us to raise awareness in the community, work toward raising your personal fitness level and raise much needed funds to keep our programs going in 2021 and beyond.

Mother’s Day 2021

Mother’s Day is an opportunity to acknowledge the amazing role women play in their families as a Mother. Today some Mum’s will be spending their special day in hospital alongside their ‘tiny spark’. To bring some joy in what is such a challenging time we have sent out more than 200 gifts around the state for those Mum’s spending Mother’s Day in a Neonatal Unit. Each envelope contains a quantity of sunflower seeds with the sentiment, ‘We can bloom together’. This recognises that Mum’s continue to grow and flourish, just like their children. For many Mother’s this will be their very first Mother’s Day and we really hope that our small gift brings some joy and brightness. Happy Mother’s Day to Mum’s everywhere from the team at Tiny Sparks WA.

We can’t do it without you

This past week we were contact by a family with a truly heartbreaking story. We can’t share their story with you, but they did pose a question we can share. ‘What would it take to ensure every family admitted to a Neonatal Unit receives a Care Package in WA each year?’

Each year around 4,500 babies are admitted to Neonatal Units in WA. To fund a Care Package for each of these families we need to raise $180,000 p/a.

We started this program back in 2014 and were delivering just 10 packages per month. The program has grown and grown and we are now delivering just over 100 packages per month but we need to see that number more than triple, so no family goes without!

Please help us, help more WA families by making a tax deductible donation. We can’t do it without you!

Christmas 2020

For many years we have run our annual Christmas Quilt Drive and in spite of COVIDs attempts to derail everything in 2020, humanity prevailed!  Many sewing groups ran with this project including the remarkable Get Scrubbed Group and our own Crafty Creators.  Since the delivery cut off we have been busy sorting, packing, posting and delivering to 26 hospitals around the state.  Our final delivery was made this morning to Bunbury Regional Hospital.

Along with the Christmas quilts, stockings and cards, hospitals also received ‘Baby’s 1st Christmas 2020’ ornaments thanks to the ongoing generous support of local family run business, Foote & Flame.

This year we distributed a staggering 544 gifts for Christmas in maternity, Neonatal and Special Care Nursery beds all over WA!  Huge thanks to volunteers Christine H, Elke, Zach and Xavier for generously giving their time to assist with collation and deliveries.  To our drop off points Margaret, Jenny, Liesl, Briana, Sandra and Christine L thank you for opening your homes for drop offs.  Melinda thank you for hosting the stocking sew along and answering lots of questions.  To everyone who coordinated family, friends or an organised sewing group we thank you!

Thanks to you, Christmas in hospital this year will be a special time for so many.  Thank you all for helping to make this possible 🙌🏻💜🎄

December Donation Bingo

Each month we will be posting a Bingo, this is a list of items that you can purchase and donate, all of which will be distributed through our programs. We would love for you to complete a row, column or entire Bingo but even one item will go a long way to helping!! You can mail in your item/s or drop them off to one of our collection points. You could also purchase online and have it mailed directly to us. Send us an email admin@tinysparkswa.org.au if you need more info. We truly appreciate your support 🙌🏻💜