A collection of posts that show how kindness is an active pursuit. These positive stories cover a wide range of acts of kindness to others that people have taken.
What small kindnesses have you seen recently? Tell us here. “I put my knee out while running and it turns out the local physio only takes bookings by phone which is an issue for me. When I posted about this on Mastodon, another Autistic person offered to make the call for me.” Check out even […]
I have a meeting in London next week and I realised that it’s on a train strike day so I contacted the person I’m meeting to say I wasn’t sure whether I can make it or not. Without me asking, he did some research himself and discovered that there is an option for me to
What kindness have you seen this week? Let us know here. “My Mum’s elderly neighbour fell last Thursday in the Monmouth Way area and a very kind young man (possibly called Nick) with a cockerpoo helped her and brought her home.” This post was spotted in a Facebook group and what a lovely kindness to
“Last week I locked myself out as I left my house to go to my aerobics class. I called my parents who brought my spare key round so that I could get back into my house after my class had finished, rather than waiting for hours until my daughter came home from school.” I suspect
“While walking my dogs I spotted an adult sitting in a garden painting the faces of some very excited children. I don’t know what the context was but I thought it was really kind of them to spend the time turning them into whatever wild and wonderful things they wanted to be!” I suspect many
We see so much kindness in the freelance community – what kindness have you seen? “I’m part of the Recommended community and when I recently shared that I had had a tough day with potential client work falling through, other members of the group shared their own experiences to help me feel I wasn’t alone.
“My 5 year old Labrador escaped on Friday tea time when I came home from work. We live in Didsbury off the busy A34. Archie just kept on walking and as I can’t run fast, I couldn’t catch up to him. I was frantically running down the street holding his lead in one hand and
“I spoke at a conference recently. One of the people at the event offered to take a photo while I was presenting so that I could share it on my social media.” We all know how important it is to capture these moments for social media – and how difficult when you don’t have a
“One of the volunteers at my local Repair Café replaced my laptop screen – they took it home to do it and even dropped it back off to me as I don’t drive. It was kind enough of them to fix it but dropping it off too meant I didn’t have to either wait a
“We popped into a wee shop next to our hotel to get juice and, while we were in there, we got talking to a guy who was telling us the difference between Mexican coke and American coke (it’s all in the sugar apparently). We just assumed the guy worked there and thought no more about
