This collection of posts illustrates the difference that acts of kindness make to others’ lives. Your actions matter and these good news posts show you how.
“I visited a womens’ refuge while doing charity work in child protection in Uganda some years ago. A beautiful young mother with few possessions gave me a banana and a bead bracelet she had made from found paper on the streets of Kampala to support herself and her baby. She would not allow me to […]
“I’ve treated myself to a sports massage – long overdue according to my masseuse, who had to work particularly hard on my shoulders! Honestly worth every penny.” Kindness to self is so often overlooked so thank you David for sharing this. How have you shown yourself kindness this week?
“I was looking to buy some knitting needles and found some on Facebook Marketplace. When I went to pay them when I picked them up, they said not to worry about payment.” What a lovely act of kindness – it seems the knitting community is full of kindness going by the stories we’ve had recently!
“A fellow art can artist saw my work after I had gone home and suggested this change. The artists sent me a drawing to see what I thought. A suggested change to an install, kindly suggested and warmly received.” This piece and associated kindness story is from Elspeth Billie Penfold go and check out their other
“I gave some self assessment advice to the volunteer fixing my clock at the repair cafe. When I next saw him he was really grateful and said how much it had helped.” Sharing knowledge is a wonderfully kind act and, as you’ve shown, makes a big difference too! Read more stories of kindness: Knitting goodies donated to beginner
“I’ve been ill and between the ladies at church and my neighbours I’m being so well fed. My small appetite is meaning each meal lasts a long time but it is so appreciated while I recover.” We spotted this in The Full Freezer group and Angela very kindly allowed us to share it here, so
We want to shout about Love For Our Elders who are fighting loneliness with love, one letter at a time. They organise and encourage people to send letters to the elderly in their local communities and now have 50,000 volunteers across 70 countries – that’s quite the kindness ripple effect! If you’d like to spread
There is always room for more kindness. And yet, in telling ourselves that the world needs more kindness, we run the risk of missing all the kindness that we already have. Not the only story It is true that there is a lot of darkness and cruelty in the world right now. Near and far
Nicky from Thrive Bookkeeping got in touch to tell us that she is sponsoring a young goalkeeper in the town where she lives. He’s 12 and she has bought him a pair of gloves. She’s been told that he’s over the moon that someone would do that for him! He’s apparently very good, so who
“I have a blue badge for my disability and when we got to our location, all the disabled bays were in use.As we turned around to look for other parking, a lady waved and said that if we needed a disabled spot, she was just about to leave so could have hers.It was such a
