Uncategorized – Cheerful Sparrows

New website launch

Cheerful Sparrows has a new online look! Many thanks to Peter Davin for the design and build of our brand new website. Enjoy browsing – we’d love to hear what you think.

Help to buy fridge + washing machine

I want to say how grateful I am. After being rejected by other charities, the Council and DWP, I was worrying how to cope with two children as a single parent living off student finance. Your work does change lives, it gives hope when people are at their most fragile and have nowhere to turn. Please continue, because people like me need your kindness.

Thanet Parent

Sensory toys for an autistic child

The items have been received and look great. Mum was extremely grateful for the tent and the toys! The child was sitting in the tent when I arrived and spent most of the time in there! Thank you ever so much.

Thanet Social Worker

Vacuum cleaner donation

The family are so pleased that they can now clean the floors of all the crumbs dropped by the four children at home over the school holidays. They’d like to thank you for making it happen.

Thanet Social Worker

Children’s beds

Thank you so much for our new beds! You’ve helped make our house a home and completed our bedroom.

Via a handmade card from the children

For bed bug treatment

Thank you very much for helping this family. It’s such a relief for them to be rid of the bed bugs.

Thanet Social Worker

Fridge freezer donation

The Mum said the fridge freezer’s brilliant! Thank you so much for helping this family.

Thanet Social Worker

Thank you TBN!

We were delighted to receive a generous £750 donation from Thanet Business Network. After our trustee Julia Lidstone gave a talk at a recent breakfast meeting, TBN members Dan Perry and Lewis Page presented us with this cheque. We hold our meetings at Secure Storage Solutions in Manston, where owner Emma kindly lends us a … Read more

Help to buy fridge + washing machine

Thanet Parent

Sensory toys for an autistic child

Thanet Social Worker

Vacuum cleaner donation

The family are so pleased that they can now clean the floors of all the crumbs dropped by the four children at home over the school holidays. They’d like to thank you for making it happen.

Thanet Social Worker

Children’s beds

Thank you so much for our new beds! You’ve helped make our house a home and completed our bedroom.

Via a handmade card from the children

For bed bug treatment

Thank you very much for helping this family. It’s such a relief for them to be rid of the bed bugs.

Thanet Social Worker

Fridge freezer donation

The Mum said the fridge freezer’s brilliant! Thank you so much for helping this family.

Thanet Social Worker

100 years of Cheerful Sparrows

This is a very special year for us – 2025 marks the centenary of Cheerful Sparrows Thanet Charity! The Cheerful Sparrows charitable movement began during the Boer War (1899-1902) when people started collecting funds to help support families while their menfolk were away fighting. The Cheerful Sparrows Thanet (formerly know as the Margate branch) was formed … Read more

Help to buy fridge + washing machine

Thanet Parent

Sensory toys for an autistic child

Thanet Social Worker

Vacuum cleaner donation

The family are so pleased that they can now clean the floors of all the crumbs dropped by the four children at home over the school holidays. They’d like to thank you for making it happen.

Thanet Social Worker

Children’s beds

Thank you so much for our new beds! You’ve helped make our house a home and completed our bedroom.

Via a handmade card from the children

For bed bug treatment

Thank you very much for helping this family. It’s such a relief for them to be rid of the bed bugs.

Thanet Social Worker

Fridge freezer donation

The Mum said the fridge freezer’s brilliant! Thank you so much for helping this family.

Thanet Social Worker

Singing for the Sparrows

We were lucky enough to be chosen by the generous singers at Thanet Glee (part of Glee Club UK) to be their Christmas 2024 charity. As part of their festive concert, they ran a raffle and buffet which raised a whopping £556 for Cheerful Sparrows. Thank you! L to R: Peter Silver, Julia Lidstone, Kim … Read more

Help to buy fridge + washing machine

Thanet Parent

Sensory toys for an autistic child

Thanet Social Worker

Vacuum cleaner donation

The family are so pleased that they can now clean the floors of all the crumbs dropped by the four children at home over the school holidays. They’d like to thank you for making it happen.

Thanet Social Worker

Children’s beds

Thank you so much for our new beds! You’ve helped make our house a home and completed our bedroom.

Via a handmade card from the children

For bed bug treatment

Thank you very much for helping this family. It’s such a relief for them to be rid of the bed bugs.

Thanet Social Worker

Fridge freezer donation

The Mum said the fridge freezer’s brilliant! Thank you so much for helping this family.

Thanet Social Worker

Christmas at QEQM

Each year we enjoy a festive celebration with the staff on the two Cheerful Sparrows wards at QEQM Hospital. Here are some of the nurses with a selection of the fruit, beverages and sweet treats we brought in to show our appreciation for all their hard work.