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.
My Mum and Dad went to their local shopping precinct. An elderly lady got the wheel of her shopping trolley stuck in the paving and my Dad rushed over to help her get it free, despite being nearly 80 himself! I wasn’t there at the time, but I can guarantee he will have done it […]
“I make collages as a hobby using all sorts of random material left over from other things. A friend recently gave me a carrier bag with a note, ‘hope these might be useful in your wonderful creations’. It was full of beads, bits of ribbon, odd buttons, old wrapping paper and greetings cards, etc. It
It’s World Mental Health Day from the Mental Health Foundation and there’s no denying that we continue to live in difficult and scary times which can be bad for our individual and collective mental health. In good news, there’s a growing body of academic research and evidence, that proves why kindness matters and tells us
I was waiting for my coffee at the Starbucks at Reading station and I overheard another customer saying to her friend that she was looking for napkins. For some reason the napkins were next to the door rather than on the counter, so I pointed them out to her. Tell us about a time you
My favourite Haribo sweets are Tropifrutti, but although we get lots of different Haribo in the UK, you can never get Tropifrutti here. Recently my husband and daughter went to watch a women’s euros match in Basel, Switzerland. They stayed in a hotel just over the border in Germany and they went to the local
“I was riding my motorbike home along the A6 when a man in a work van pulled up next to me and informed me that I had a flat tyre. As he was a fellow biker, he said he had the kit to fix it in his van. So we pulled up on the side
“It has been such an awful week for me – but in this morning’s mail was a wee package from an Edinburgh friend, with a Highland Coo plushie (an adorable breed of Scottish cattle, thought to be the oldest cattle breed in the world), an excellent chocolate bar, a bar of ‘very lovely soap to
“We hiked the Dartmoor Way last Friday – 20miles on Day 1 and 10 more on Day 2. At end of Day 2 we get to Chagford walking like John Wayne. We’d left Caz’s car at Widdecombe and mine at Chagford to drive us back so both could get home to a bath and a
We’ll be at Brighton Wellness Festival on 4th October! Head kindness cheerleader, Sarah, will be running a session on radical noticing alongside Helen Rimmer, The Kind Brave Leader. The workshop is just the kind of thing Sarah runs for business and other groups which aims to inspire you to see all the ways kindness shows
“My favorite act of kindness to recieve is when my best friend considers my sensory needs without having to ask for it.” This is such a lovely example of recognising kindness from those we may not notice it from because we expect it. A big thank you to the anonymous person on Mastodon who send
