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kindness of strangers

These good news tales about the kindness of strangers are intended to be uplifting and give readers faith in humanity.

A sign with parking information next to a parking meter, behind them a large field with trees dotted around on a grey day.

Help with parking ticket machine

“I helped a lady work the parking ticket machine. She’d not used it before and was struggling to make it work.” We love hearing about the kindness of strangers and it happens so often! What kindness have you seen today? Check out even more acts of kindness: Hiker picks up litter. Travelodge allows free early […]

a woman with light skin tone and long blonde hair holding a phone to her ear and speaking into it. She is sat at a table with a laptop in front of her in a library.

Repair cafe volunteer phones taxi for stranger.

“One of the attendees at Barry Repair Cafe, an elderly woman, needed her taxi booking pushing back by an hour. The admin volunteer phoned the taxi service for her from another volunteer’s phone and got it all sorted.” What kindness have you seen in your local community recently? Read about even more kind acts happening

a road with cones on both sides of it. In the foreground is a road closed sign. On the road is a white car driving towards the camera which has just passed a flat bed truck. To the left someone is walking a dog along the pavement. There are trees either side of the road.

Worker in truck waves at little boy.

I was walking down the street and I saw a Mum with her little boy in a pushchair – the little boy was fascinated by a flat-bed truck with a man standing in the back of it, loading it up with cones and street signs (I think there must have been some roadworks that were

a view down someone standing on a train. They are wearing pale blue dungarees, pastal blue purple and yellow trainers, and holding a brightly multi-coloured bag with a large pale pink reusable water bottle in it.

Barry teenager shows kindness on train.

“While getting onto my train, my bottle fell out of my bag. I didn’t even notice but a teenage girl did and she picked it up and gave it back to me as she got on the train.” We’re hearing about lots of kind younger people lately and we love it! What kindness have you

a white wall with a little roof section providing protection over a set of hooks on the wall. There are 3 coats on the set of hooks. Above them text on the wall reads “wall of kindness. Take a coat if you are cold. Leave a coat if you don’t use it anymore.”

Wall of Kindness in Bromley

“We walked past this in Bromley on the weekend. Made me smile, especially as there were some coats on it.” Rhian shared this on LinkedIn and tagged us with permission to share it here on Time for Kindness too, and we love it! Do you have a Wall of Kindness near you? Read some more

some shelves of chocolate in a supermarket.

Chocolate & water for kids in broken down car.

“Just want to say a huge thank you to the lady that just stopped by the car as we are broken down, and handed us chocolate bars and water – the kids are now very happy! Faith in humanity restored! Sorry I didn’t catch your name – from the one in a Liverpool shirt.” This

A sign for Benfleet station on the platform at sunset. The shy above has white clouds with some blue sky above it and sun breaking through it as it sets. The platform itself is quite dark.

Angel at Benfleet station.

“I worked late in London, next to me on the train was a young lady around 19-20. She got off at my stop and I was at the front of the queue for a taxi, it was around 11pm so I offered her to go ahead of me so she was safe. 11 out of

Several platforms at Marylebone train station. At two platforms on the far left there are trains, the other visible platforms are empty.

Marylebone passenger gives up seat to faint stranger.

“Travelling home on a packed train standing room only. I was feeling faint and a guy stood up and gave me his seat. Good to know there are good guys out there thanks a million to my hero on the Marylebone to Banbury train.” We share examples of kindness like this one, sent in by

a large, beautiful lake stretches out towards a forest in the distance. The sky above is light blue.

Passerby at lake shares the time.

We were walking round the lake near our house before my parents came over to visit for a cuppa. We realised neither of us had brought our phone with us, so we had no idea what the time was! We asked a passerby for the time and he got his own phone out of his