Sparkle

Ending another sparkling year with our Christmas extravaganza! 🎄 Festive exercise, afternoon tea, Christmas crafts, the most amazing show from @LucieBenson dancers and a Christmas carol singalong. Pure Joy 💕 #Grandfriends #Intergenerational #community #christmas

Every Saturday in Roehampton!

Huge congratulations to Pam! 🎉🎉🎉

One our superstar volunteers, Pam, won the volunteering award at the @wandsworth_council Civic Awards last night! Pam volunteers at two of our venues every week and works tirelessly, but joyfully, to ensure the children and their Grandfriends have a wonderful time at Sparkle.

Autumn leaves and Diwali lanterns this week at Sparkle #Grandfriends #sparkletogether

Space week. Hunting planets and launching balloon rockets... So much fun! 👨‍🚀🚀 #grandfriends #spaceweek #sparkletogether

This week it was pirate week at Sparkle.. We hunted for treasure, created pirate names and made hats!Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ☠ #grandfriends #sparkletogether #pirates

We are delighted that Pam, one of our superstar volunteers, is a finalist in the @wandsworth_council Civic Awards 2025. With her warm smile and caring nature, Pam embodies the Sparkle ethos, making all our guests feel special whether they are 9 or 99! #WandsworthCivicAwards

Sailboats and Sports Day! 🥵 #intergenerational #grandfriends #sparkletogether #putney

Anyone for tennis? 🎾 Ahead of the Wimbledon Championships starting next week, this week our theme was tennis. Turns out we have some very competitive children and Grandfriends! #wimbledon2025 #intergenerational #grandfriends

This week was our green week - we have been busy planting vegetables and junk modelling! #greenweek #intergenerational #grandfriends

Sparkle is 3!! 🎉🎂🎈 We celebrated our 3rd Birthday today with party hats, cake and pass the parcel. So much fun! #happybirthday #intergenerational #grandfriends #sparkletogether

It's Volunteers' Week! We would like to celebrate the incredible humans that run Sparkle Putney each week and make it the incredible community it is. You are all heroes (including those not pictured) Thank you! #volunteersweek #localheroes #putney #wandsworth #sparkletogether

This week it was our absolute honour and privilege to represent Sparkle at a Buckingham Palace garden party. Hosted by the Prince and Princess of Wales, we were treated to delicious afternoon tea and thankfully some beautiful weather! A day we will never forget 👑❤️🇬🇧 #community

This week we celebrated May with flowers, garlands and Maypole dancing! #intergenerational #grandfriends #maypoledancing #sparkletogether

The perfect visitors on this hot day! Thank you to @LondonFire for showing us around the fire engine and telling about your work 🚒 #Grandfriends #intergenerational #firebrigade

In the school holidays we welcome children from the community to join us with their parents/carers, and we had our busiest day ever this week! We worked together on a VERY special art project that will be revealed in Global Intergenerational Week later this month... #GIW25

The @WimbledonFdn has been a huge source of support for Sparkle. This month it launched 'Champions of Merton and Wandsworth', a collection of 10 portraits celebrating local heroes and we are delighted that our Founder, Emma Chisholm, is one of them! bit.ly/3EnJ83n

As our partner schools break up this week, we decided to celebrate Easter early! #Easter #Grandfriends #intergenerational #sparkletogether

Strictly Wandsworth! We had so much fun learning and filming a special dance routine for 'Strictly Wandsworth' - the launch event for Wandsworth being London borough of culture. Proof that we can enjoying dancing whatever our age or mobility! 💃🏻🕺 #strictlywandsworth