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 wrapping and distribution has started....

 

We have had our first wrapping events and we were overwhelmed, literally, with the number of kind volunteers who turned up! For reasosn of safety, as well as practicality, we have decided to split each wrapping event into two halves to allow as many people as possibly to be able to help. Please sign up to the event you would like to attend on our facebook page so we can manage numbers efficiently and not dissapoint anyone. 

 

Wrapping Events Sign Up

 

Wrapping event dates 

 

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

 

Our Donation Points are all now open and ready to receive your gifts.

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.

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 provided us with premises 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.