Christmas 2025

A Christmas spent in hospital is an incredibly challenging time for families, especially those who are separated from their family or friends. Having first hand experience of Christmas in NICU our team have been providing special occasion gifts not just for Christmas, but other occasions too, since our inception in 2013. This year was no different.

We were super grateful to have two lovely volunteers who used their corporate volunteer days to come along to Tiny Sparks HQ and pack a whopping 325 Christmas gifts! Whilst the largest Neonatal Units are located in Perth some country hospitals do have dedicated bed space to care for baby’s needing some additional care and attention after birth. Our programs ensure that every family, no matter their location receive the support they need.

Our Christmas gifts are generously supported by the small Perth family run business Foote & Flame with stockings generously sewn and donated by the Tiny Sparks Crafty Collective.

2022 Christmas Quilting Project

Those of you following along for a while know that each year we run a Christmas Quilt drive. The drive enables us to gift each baby in a Neonatal Unit bed on Christmas Day, a beautiful hand made gift, along with a sentimental ‘Baby’s 1st Christmas’ ornament which have been generously made and donated by Foote & Flame every year since our inception.

Most years we have accepted a mix of rectangular quilts and Christmas stockings. Following extensive discussions with our hospital network, this years project with be Christmas Stockings. Our goal number is 300 stockings. Any stockings in excess of this are distributed to maternity wards and then paediatrics at the hospitals we work with.

The Christmas Stocking pattern can be found at Diary of a Quilter, and it’s with thanks to Amy Smart for allowing us to share with our network. Pattern and Instructions Link.

The cut off date to get your stockings to us is Friday 18 November. This allows us enough time to collate and distribute all over the state. Some parcels are posted to our regional hospitals so we need to work with Australia Post Christmas posting timelines too.

Any questions that you might have about this project can be posted into our Crafty Creator Group.

Christmas 2021

Spending your baby’s first Christmas in hospital can be stressful and have a huge emotional impact on families. We truly understand what families are experiencing because several of our co-founders spent their baby’s first Christmas in NICU too. When establishing Tiny Sparks in 2013 we knew it would be important to assist families to celebrate all of the special occasions, to bring them a little cheer, and to let them know we care.

Since then each year we’ve had the absolute privilege of working with the gorgeous family behind Foote and Flame to create a unique ‘Baby’s 1st Christmas’ ornament. Year on year they have so very generously donated the ornaments to form part of our gift.

Our Crafty Creators have also worked hard each year to ensure a gift made with love, that can be treasured forever is provided to every baby. This year is no exception with hundreds of stockings and quilts received.

We know that any time a baby is separated from their family for medical care has an impact. It doesn’t matter if the separation is a few hours, days, weeks or months, it isn’t the way any family ever imagined it would be. This is why we send gifts out to all hospitals all over our great state of Western Australia. The families in Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany, Broome and others are often overlooked, but need just a such support and care.

As 2021 comes to a close we wish you all a magical holiday period and a healthy and happy 2022.

Christmas auction 2021

For the very first time we are running a Christmas Auction on Facebook to raise much needed funds for our programs in 2022. Everything from sporting memorabilia to Rotto ferry tickets is up for grabs! You can view all of the auction items, including reading all of the terms and conditions in our Christmas Auction Album here. We invite you to share this with your family and friends, the more bids we receive the more families we can assist in 2022. Happy Bidding!!

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 🙌🏻💜🎄