We are excited to announce that we have opened a Red Bubble store. Tiny Sparks receives a commission from each sale and the art work has been generously donated for our use. With everything from t-shirts to canvas prints and travel mugs on offer there is something to make the perfect gift for anyone! Here is a sneak peak of a few of the designs, to see all that we have on offer click through to our Red Bubble store. Spread the word far and wide.
Tiny Sparks in the News
Special thanks to GWN for their news story this week!
Whilst the major neonatal units are located in Perth we support families state wide. Travelling to Perth, often in an emergency situation can be daunting. It's important for families to know that we are there for them, both emotionally through our peer-to-peer support network and tangibly through our care package program, providing them with essential items they will need for their hospital stay.
With almost 4,000 babies admitted to neonatal units around WA each year Tiny Sparks WA plays a pivotal role. To help us continue to support those families, please join our end of financial year challenge of funding '30 care packages in 30 days' (All donations over $2 are tax deductible, a receipt will be e-mailed immediately.)
You can watch the GWN news story via their website here.
30 Care Packages in 30 Days!
The end of financial year countdown is on!
Each year we distribute more than 700 care packages. We would love for you to make an end of financial year donation and sponsor a care package! Each care package is provided with a personalised message from the donor, you can leave your message when making the donation. A receipt will be e-mailed to you for taxation purposes immediately.
Help us achieve our goal of sponsorship of 30 care packages in 30 days, that's 1 for each day of June.
Thank you!
That's a wrap! HBF Run for a Reason 2017
We are so grateful to Premo, Lyn, Jacquieline, team 'Lenny the Lion', team 'The Race for Chase', the Bates Family and everyone else who turned out to pound the pavement for Tiny Sparks WA, 50+ people in total, what an effort!
Almost $4,000 was raised for Tiny Sparks from this event, all of which will be returned to the WA community through our ongoing programming. As a 100% volunteer run organisation every dollar is spent where you intended for it to go!
Wondering just what impact $4,000 will have? It buys 100 care packages (we distribute more than 700 a year!), or 3 terms of Developmental Playgroup (12 placements each term), or 400 special occasion gifts (we provide a small gift on Mother's Day, Father's Day and Christmas Day to all babies in neonatal units around WA). What a huge difference you are helping us make!
Thanks to HBF for putting on another fabulous Run for a Reason and to Channel 9 for their support of the event, especially with their TV special 'Be the Reason', featuring the Catalano family and team 'Lenny the Lion'. We can't thank you all enough!
#hbfrun #bethereason
Partnership with Little Things for Tiny Tots
Earlier this year we put a call out to all of our generous knitters and sewers to let them know we had a new project, snuggly baby wraps. Shortly after we were contacted by Little Things for Tiny Tots another local, volunteer run, not-for-profit who put together new baby boxes for those in need. They had some surplus wraps they wanted to donate to us and thus the partnership was born.
Little Things for Tiny Tots are going to donate wraps to us that are in excess of their needs on an ongoing basis. From time to time we also receive donations which fall outside of our scope and will now be able to feed those items through to them.
We are delighted to come together with Little Things for Tiny Tots for the benefit of the WA community! You can find out more about them and show some support by 'Liking' their Facebook page.
Wow, what a donation! Amber's height in wraps! That's 6 nappy boxes full of wraps!
The contents of just one nappy box, so generous!