Welcome to the Christmas Sparkle Project

 

The Christmas Sparkle Project is run by the community for the community. We work with local charities who support families in need.

 

We aim to give a Christmas gift to every child aged 0-18 years living in difficult circumstances in the Taunton and Wellington community.

 

We want to make every child's Christmas Sparkle.

The 2023 Christmas Sparkle project is up and running....

 

We have had our first team meeting, and what a team!

 

Wrapping event dates have been decided, tasks allocated, and we are raring to go.

 

If you would like to be involved with the project please get in contact.

 

The 2022 Christmas Sparkle Project was our biggest ever

 
Here are the stats:
 
2,153 children and young people received gifts from Christmas Sparkle this year. This represents a 45% increase on last year’s figures.
 
Each package contained several gifts - around 8,000 individual items went out.
 
Thanks to the generosity of you all, we were able to send a gift for every request we received.
 
I don’t have enough words to express my admiration for you all - thank you and Merry Christmas you lovely people.  Gill
 

A lovely message we have just received:

 

"My little boys face lit up yesterday after he picked up his present from school. He's had a tough few years and your present has lifted his spirt and given him a sign of how our communities look after those who are vulnerable. I wish you all a truly peaceful and happy Christmas and thank you all from the bottom of are hearts for your love and support this Christmas."

We now have a

Just Giving page

 

If you would like to donate to our project to help us buy gifts please click on the link above.

 

 

 
The fourth, and final,  wrapping event of the 2022 Christmas Sparkle campaign was mega! Over 40 volunteers turned-up and they worked non-stop for over three hours to get the last of this years' gifts wrapped and ready to deliver.  
 
Our amazing My Day team of helpers  have emptied the collection boxes in Taunton and Wellington  and  will be delivering the remaining gifts this week.
 
Please keep an eye on this site, or sign up to our Facebook page, for all the latest news.
 
 
 
 Please sign up to our wrapping events through our facebook events page.
To all our supporters, this is why your help matters:
 
 
Your gifts mean so much - this is feedback from a parent last week:
 
"Thank you so much. That is so kind and amazing of you all. I’ve managed to source some second hand bits for Xmas so far, this will take the pressure off me massively. Thank you so much. We are all a bit stressed, having some presents under the tree will give us all something to smile about."

❤️

The 2022 Team

We have been very fortunate in getting great coverage on both the BBC and ITV, as well as several radio interviews.

Gill Harrison:

 

Founder of Christmas Sparkle Project

 

Thank you Summerfield

 

Many thanks to James Holyday and Zoe, of Summerfield, who have again promised us premises, most probably

in Victoria House, Taunton TA1 3FA.  Without their continued generosity the project could not run.
 

 

Donations have come from schools, businesses, groups and individuals.

 

Special Thanks to:

 

My Day who do an amazing job of collecting and delivering donations. We are delighted to be in partnership with such a wonderful organisation.

Thank you to all our amazing helpers.

We could not do it without you.

 

 

 

Christmas Sparkle wins Citizenship Award

 

In April 2019 the achievements of Christmas Sparkle were recognized by this Citizenship Award, presented to us by the then Mayor, Catherine Herbert at the Somerset County Cricket ground. The award acknowledges all the hard work put in by everyone who has helped. The press were present and this article appeared in the local paper.