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.
There are lots of kind leaders in the world, we just don’t hear their stories often enough. So I’m continuing with the Time for Kindness Kind Leaders campaign. Each person that I’ve spoken to about how they bring kindness into the way they lead has brought interesting perspectives and insight. In a world where the […]
I saw a poster about a friendship table at Woodley library and it struck me as a great example of kindness: What kindness have you spotted in your local community? Get more inspiration for kind acts you could spot: Kindness at Thames Valley Professional Speaking Association. Help for man pulled over by dog. Young lad
“I said thank you after finding out I got an extra chicken nugget at mcdonalds.” No act of kindness is too small to celebrate and this is a lovely example that highlights the kindness of gratitude. What tiny kind act have you noticed today? Check out even more examples of kindness to help you see
At a recent in-person seminar and networking event from Charity Comms there were some great examples of kindness to self. Sarah, our head kindness cheerleader, was at the event and noticed that the need to support your own resilience with positive things, for example noticing kindness, came up quite a lot – and that’s a
It seems to me that the leaders we most often hear about (particularly in politics and in business) are the ones that follow what I think of as the ‘scary monster’ mould. They are very often loud, aggressive, tough, ‘strong’. These types of leaders scorn anything that they perceive as weakness. And kindness is something
We saw several examples of kindness at Viv’s Cafe while we were waiting to watch our daughter play a football match at a club we hadn’t been to before. A coach from the other team told us that although they didn’t have a café on site, there was somewhere we could get takeaway coffees 5
“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 treated myself to some artwork of forests from an independent Scottish artist as I can’t get to them now I’m disabled – at least at the moment.” We strongly believe that self kindness is important and we love this example. How have you shown kindness to yourself recently? See how often kindness is happening
Two friends sent me flowers to say ‘congratulations on your new job’. I love fresh flowers (and my friends)! What brings you joy? More examples of kindness from everyone from friends to strangers: Best friend buys just because Dungeons and Dragons t-shirt. Welcome box at new job. Lidl staff let customer know phone torch is
“I helped a lady who’d injured herself falling off her bike. With help from others we took her to hospital. She suffered a broken tibia and is now back home and recovering. Her husband came by to pick up her bike I’d kept safe for her in the garage. He brought a gift and said
