“The train staff were so kind on my birthday trip to London. The most notable moment being that we had struggled to get a taxi back to the station and arrived cutting it very fine. The passenger assist man rushed my girlfriend and I to the train and made them hold it while he got […]
“We were at Dyfi bike park in west wales (check them out here) for my son Toby’s 16th birthday. He also had an unplanned helicopter ride courtesy of Welsh air ambulance following a significant crash. I would like to thank the 2 lads who stopped to help and provide first aid to my son before
“My neighbour cut her hedge on the weekend. She doesn’t have a bin for garden waste but I do, so I told her she could put her hedge clippings in it. I put it out for collection this week, and normally they collect when I’m out at work, so I often come home and have
“I was sat on a chair by reception at the doctors and a lady who came in checked if I was in the queue before she went up to reception. A bit later she did her blood pressure in the machine just opposite me and couldn’t figure out where the print out came out so
Supporting community run projects is such a powerful act of kindness that ripples out. In fact, community projects are somewhere we hear about a lot of kindness from the people organising them, to those getting the word out about them, along with the specifics of the project itself, and here’s one example: “I started a
“When my friend had twins, she struggled to produce enough breastmilk for them. I had accumulated quite a lot of my own in my freezer, which my child refused to take. I gave my freezer stash to my friend, which helped her on the trickier days. Some time later, she gave me a crochet hook
I bought decorations for my daughter’s 18th birthday that I then shared them with a friend whose daughter turned 18 a few weeks later. They’ve now passed them on to someone else with an 18th birthday coming up. The balloons came to us after 2 other parties and were passed on to another friend. That’s
A Portland coffee shop raised over $86,000 to feed people losing SNAP benefits and has so far given out over 2000 breakfasts to people who lost them. Heretic Coffee Co is a non-profit coffee shop in Portland which continues to raise funds to support people and feed those who are struggling. What an enormous amount
Supporting others and cheering them on is a simple act of kindness we can all do, and one that one of our guest posters experienced recently. Julia from Guided Outdoor Adventures saw this amazingly kind post she was tagged in recently and made sure we knew about it too so we could share it as
Cheering others on and telling them their strengths is a powerful act of kindness and one I saw myself in the WhatsApp group for Speakers’ Collective recently. One of the members said “Huge love to F for our chat last week. What a magnificent and gifted soul you are!” F then responded with “you are
