Tracy’s Christmas Smile

In 2020 The Smile Foundation in partnership with Diversify launched the first-ever ‘Tracy’s Christmas Smile’ appeal. We raised over £2000 for the appeal and helped two organisations Baby Basics and The Trussel Trust. We donated Christmas food parcels and delivered over 600 gifts to families in need. 

This year we want to help even more. We have carefully selected six causes with Tracy in the forefront of our minds. You can read about them all below and find out how you can help us to give the gift of a smile this Christmas. 

In 2020/21, The Trussell Trust’s Foodbank Network provided 2,537,198 three-day emergency food supplies and support to UK people in crisis. Of these, 980,082 went to children. We will be collecting food donations, match funding and delivering the parcels to foodbank across South Yorkshire.
You can give to this wonderful cause by either using our donate button alternatively if you'd like to purchase items yourself we are open for collection Monday to Friday 10am - 3pm.
Ben's Centre offers a drop in day service for the homeless on a Monday to Friday every week between 10.30 am and 2.30pm. They provide a hot meal and access to clothing and washing facilities as well as internet access and activities. We are raising money to ensure all those attending Ben's Centre on Christmas day will get a Christmas dinner. You can give to this wonderful cause by either using our donate button or purchasing through our wish list. Alternatively if you'd like to purchase items yourself we are open for collection Monday to Friday 10am - 3pm.
Charlie's Place is a grass roots animal sanctuary, run by Claire and Wil, two people who have committed their lives to making the world a kinder place for animals. Running a sanctuary isn't easy, it takes a lot of hard work and can be heart-breaking at times but, for those animals lucky enough to find their way to Charlie's Place, it means a second chance. The facilities are home to abandoned, orphaned, injured and unwanted pets, dog, cats, horses, ponies, small animals and wildlife. Tracy loved animals and was passionate about providing care to those who need it most. We are asking people to donate so we can provide them with much needed food and aid to the animals in their care. You can give to this wonderful cause by either using our donate button or purchasing through our wish list alternatively if you'd like to purchase items yourself we are open for collection Monday to Friday 10am - 3pm.
Sheffield Women’s Aid are a small charity established in 1974 solely based in Sheffield but housing women and children from anywhere in the UK who need a place of safety. The charity has been providing emergency accommodation for women and children that have suffered and survived domestic and sexual abuse and violence for over 45 years. They currently have two refuges in Sheffield. One refuge has 16 self-contained flats and the other has 20. Both stand in secluded gardens with areas to relax and opportunities for children to play. You can give to this wonderful cause by either using our donate button or purchasing through our wish list alternatively if you'd like to purchase items yourself we are open for collection Monday to Friday 10am - 3pm.
Helps us to put a smile on their faces this Christmas.
As part of our Christmas Smile we have carefully selected a school in a deprived area to benefit from a Christmas Party. We will be providing a festive disco and party games for the school. Plus Santa will be making a special visit to give gifts to the children.
You can give to this wonderful cause by either using our donate button or purchasing a selection box through our wish list below.
alternatively if you'd like to purchase items yourself we are open for collection Monday to Friday 10am - 3pm.

Helps us to put a smile on their faces this Christmas.
Smile Pony Therapy provide psycho-social, emotional and physical benefits for a variety of people. It proves especially valuable when working with vulnerable groups of children and adults, including those with a mental or physical disability, young or elderly people. All members of our pony team were rescued by Millhouses Animal Sanctuary in Sheffield. Ponies are sentient beings, and have a special emotional intelligence and tend to mirror humans which can teach us a lot about ourselves, and can bring a variety of benefits. The Tracy Christmas Smile is donating 6 visits to community and care settings. You can help us spread some smiles this Christmas by clicking the donate button below:

Helps us to put a smile on their faces this Christmas.
We are incredibly proud of the work we have done this year to spread as many smiles as possible across the UK.

We are so grateful to all our supporters and we hope you have a wonderful Christmas celebrating with those you love.

Merry Christmas from the all the team at The Smile Foundation!
Sara Cunningham CEO

Merry Christmas from all the team!

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School Workshops

In 2020/21 The Smile Foundation commissioned Diversify to create a series of ‘Kindness Superhero’ Workshops. In addition to this, we have also donated workshops and awareness sessions to schools across the UK. At the foundation we believe no child should miss out on the opportunity to be educated about inclusion. By funding the cost of the workshops and awareness sessions it has allowed schools with little to no budget to access these important lessons. 

Diversify's mission is to promote social inclusion through educational workshops, programmes and awareness sessions in both the education and business sector. Promotion of social inclusion means increased awareness of topics, decreased negative attention towards these issues and ultimately better lives for those who experience exclusion on a daily basis. Diversify believe that people are often scared of differences in society through a lack of understanding and that by informing the public, Diversify remove that barrier to communication and community.
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"The staff at Diversify Now delivered some really engaging and valuable workshops for the students in our schools."
"Our students thoroughly enjoyed learning about Disability today, they had so many questions and the advocate took the time to answer each and every one of them. "
"Our students enjoyed becoming 'Kindness Superhero's' today. Diversify engaged our students across all key stages with fun activities and interactive films. Thank you so much to the foundation for donating this programme."
Eastwood Village Primary
"Our students learnt all about identity today, through this workshop they learnt about embracing others and taking the time to have conversation with people from other cultures, and, importantly to be proud of their own identities."
"Today i became a kindness superhero! it was so fun!"
"The 'Kindness Superhero' workshops have taught our students that the real superpower is making others happy and the gift of kindness is one that should always be given."

Join our movement and become a kindness superhero!

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Family Aid Grants

Throughout the past year The Smile Foundation have been supporting families in need. We have donated winter wear, toys, baby essentials, cots and car seats to support those most in need. 

“Thank you to Tracys foundation for helping me after my stay in hospital, we are settling in well thanks to all your support ”
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“I can't thank you enough for your kind donations, I felt totally lost until you called.”
Anon
“ Our house now feels like home thanks to you all. My children are safe and warm."
Anon
“You are very kindness for all you have done in in your duty for us. You are now family to us, be happy forever and go forward like a Tiger"
Anon
“My children love their new bed and bedding, its so nice to see them smile after all our difficulties, thank you to all for your kindness and generosity”
Anon
“You made us feel safe and protected when it felt like no-one cared, we want to thank your kind volunteers for being so caring"
Anon
"so much warmth and care to us, you gave happiness to my family"
Anon

we love to support families!

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Roundabout Group Living Trip

Young people and staff from Group Living recently had a great trip to Skegness Fantasy Island, thanks to a generous grant from The Tracy Clarkson Smile Foundation. Thank you for giving our young people the opportunity to have the trip of a lifetime and enjoy something they haven’t done before. More exciting adventures ahead!

“Experiencing new places is something most of our young people haven't experienced before. ”
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“Our young people benefit from experiences like this because it helps to build to their confidence .”
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“Going away on holiday enabled the young people to experience feeling like part of a family which unfortunately isn't something most of them have had before”
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Project Manager
“After a year in lockdown it was great to break the cycle of boredom and decrease the anxiety felt by the group following the pandemic”
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“Our young people were fully engaged with this amazing experience and we were so proud of them all.”
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“It was wonderful to see so many smiles from the young people as they made new friends across group projects”
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"Thank you so much for giving our young people the opportunity to have the trip of a lifetime and enjoy something they haven't done before, there has been such a buzz since the trip"
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we hope everyone had a brilliant day and we hope to see everyone again soon!

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Thank you Diversify and The Smile Foundation

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Written by Joyce & Kelani Y6 Pupils.

In July 2021, after a turbulent year, the pupils at Eastwood Village Primary School received the most incredible opportunity from the amazing Diversify and The Smile Foundation. They enabled a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Gulliver’s Valley.

In the past few years, Diversify has come to Eastwood Village Primary school to host a number of workshops. Despite covid-19, Diversify has still come to school to remind the pupils of Eastwood Village Primary school about equality, racism, disabilities, and lots of other social issues.

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On the morning of the trip, there was a buzz around the school. A Y6 student said, “I never thought I’d get to go to an actual theme park!”.  The Year One pupils were more excited than ever! The first ride the pupils went on was the pirate ship which was fantastic. Another ride the pupils went on was the water flume! It was Y5’s favourite ride but not Y6’s favourite as they got stuck on it. It was still an amazing trip!

Our pupils (and teachers) all had a great trip. We are all so thankful for this opportunity which we would not have had otherwise!

Eastwood Village Primary Gulliver’s Valley Trip

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Thank you, Sara, Diversify, and The Smile Foundation for helping us to go on our amazing school trip to Gulliver’s Valley. We all had an amazing time on the rides, it was so much fun.

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“I went on the big wheel. They were like big balloons. I liked to go high and it was really good. Me and Bogdan had lot’s of fun.”
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“The play areas were so cool.”
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“I liked all the rides. I liked the train best because it went so fast. The pretend horses were so good, they were moving but it was just a ride.”
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FS2 Pupil
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“Miss Baldi went on the water ride with us, we got so wet.”
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“Our children fully engaged with this amazing experience and we were so proud of their fantastic behaviour.”
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“I went on the ride with Nela, it was so slow but nice. I like the music and I like spinning round.”
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“It was so fun on the train. It was a good day out. I liked all the rides but not the dinosaurs.”
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we hope everyone had a brilliant day and we hope to see everyone again soon!

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Wedding Wishing Well Foundation

This September The Smile foundation gave a large grant to The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation. We gave this grant after hearing about the wonderful work they do below is a message from their founder.

The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation was founded with a single aim; to ensure that men and women diagnosed with a terminal or life-limiting illness can fulfil their wish to marry their soul mate, regardless of physical, emotional, or financial constraints. The charity assumes many of the burdens associated with organising a wedding, such as funding and planning those key moments, as well as being on hand to offer support, advice and inspiration. This allows couples to savour their time spent together, rather than worrying about aspects of their day that are easily taken care of for them. Getting married might be the last tick on a couple’s bucket list; it might be one more thing for them to focus on before illness takes hold completely. We don’t believe that anyone should miss out on getting married if they’ve found The One – even if their health and financial status is screaming at them otherwise. Illness can’t destroy the happy memories that are taken away from such an occasion; even in those darkest hours. The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation exists to help as many couples as possible to marry before it’s too late. I wouldn’t want to spend my time doing anything else.

Without any financial support the charity relies on generous donations and fundraising efforts, as well as suppliers working for free or heavily reduced costs. For this reason, the team were thrilled when The Tracy Clarkson Smile Foundation approached them with a generous gift.

The Tracy Clarkson Smile Foundation’s gift means the world to us, and the couples it will go on to help. I feel as though we’ve been seen and appreciated for what we do – and that we finally deserve the help that other charities receive. We are eternally grateful, and know that we will be able to do so much good with their donation.

 

“Our wedding day was truly one of the best days of our lives; what Naomi and the team did for us was out of this world. It took my breath away. We were so lucky to have everybody we wanted there, and to share our special day with them all. Having our son at our wedding was the greatest gift anybody could have given us; he is our everything.”
Laura and Shaun White
Running for 10 years the charity has helped numerous couples to marry; some of those brides and grooms continue to enjoy wedded bliss, while others, sadly, have since lost their battles. Getting to know and love the couples is both a blessing and a curse, although my team wouldn’t have it any other way
Naomi Thomas - Founder
I know all too well how the couples who approach the charity feel. Following a period of treatment for breast cancer in 2009, and the birth of my baby boy a matter of months later, I was diagnosed with secondary, incurable breast cancer in 2010. My son was just six days old. My partner Graham and i had been looking forward to getting married for over two years; Graham had proposed weeks prior to my initial diagnosis in 2009. However, the physical, emotional, and financial exhaustion that debilitating illness inspires left us with little choice but to postpone our nuptials until i was feeling better. Upon receiving my devastating diagnosis in 2010 we had all but given up getting married, sure that we’d never manage to pull a wedding together on our own.
Naomi Thomas - Founder
In 2011 our luck changed, and a local wedding planner named Sam came forward. She’d read about our plight in a local newspaper and promised that she’d help organise our wedding – for a fraction of our original budget. Harnessing their creative talents and generosity of local wedding suppliers, many of whom worked for free or a reduced fee, she achieved what had at first appeared impossible. We married in June 2012 surrounded by our closest friends and family; our dream had been realised. I had worked as a wedding planner prior to my diagnosis, was left feeling humbled by the experience, and with little to focus on now our big day was over, I swore to help couples in a similar situation. The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation was born.
Naomi Thomas - Founder
"We chose to help the Wedding Wishing Well Foundation as their cause felt very close to home. Those who knew Tracy will know that she would have done anything in her power to put a smile on someone's face - particularly someone going through a difficult time. Upon hearing about the wonderful work this charity do I felt Tracy with us and just know she was willing us to help people make lasting memories with the people they love"
Sara Cunningham - CEO The Smile Foundation
"After speaking with the founder - Naomi, I found myself quite emotional and in oar of the work they do. To give people a day they can remember and create beautiful memories at a time where everything must feel bleak, truly is a cause worth investing in"
Sara Cunningham - CEO The Smile Foundation
"The Foundation will continue to work with The Wishing Well Foundation. If you are as moved as we are by their work please follow this link to directly donate to them and give some smiles." https://weddingwishingwell.org.uk/donate
Sara Cunningham - CEO The Smile Foundation

we are delighted we could help!

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Key Stage 1 Gulliver’s Valley Trip

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The Smile Foundation recently took a group of KS1 and Foundation level students for a fantastic trip to Gulliver’s Valley in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. 

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"We took food for a picnic. We sat with our friends under the shelter to keep cool. Our packed lunches tasted lovely. After we ate our dinner, we played in the Mini Village."
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"I am riding on a train. It was bumpy. All the rides were so exciting. We went so fast!"
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"I am riding on a horse. It was fun in Gulliver’s. This photo makes me feel good. I wish I could just go back!"
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we hope everyone had a brilliant day and we hope to see everyone again soon!

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