These good news tales about the kindness of strangers are intended to be uplifting and give readers faith in humanity.
A lady stopped her car when two strangers were waving frantically at her. “It was just going dark in Alsager and we had a vague arrangement with our kind friend Sue that she would pick us up and take us to the rendevu with our other mates. We rang Sue to say that we would […]
“I work at a leisure centre and we quite often host a wheelchair basket ball competition for Reading Rockets. All the players come in and out with all the equipment that is required (quite a lot!!). Lots of other people using the centre often help them in small ways such as giving way. But in
“I was riding my new motorbike, coming near to the end of my ride and thought I’d head up to one of Cumbria’s beautiful passes, in this case it was the Newlands pass in Buttermere. I parked my bike up (in gear, I’m new but not stupid, or so I thought) and got off to
There was an elderly lady coming down the stairs at my doctor’s surgery so I waited at the bottom before heading up. When she realised I was waiting for her, she said something about her knees, she seemed to feel she needed to justify being slow, so I just reassured her that there was no
“In half term, my friend and I decided to go swimming and afterwards we thought we would have a go at a couple of the arcade games in the arcade in the next building. The way it works is after each game you get a certain amount of blue tickets, which you can then trade
“My toddler son Ollie and I decided to make the most of the elusive sunshine and head out for a dog walk and play at Churchdown Park Recreation Ground in Gloucestershire. We were happily running about when Ollie took a tumble on the hard surface of the football/basketball pitch, landing on his forehead. Cue lots
“On Saturday 22nd February myself my husband and my 80 yr old parents went to the Vine tree Inn Randwick, Stroud for a meal. My elderly father who has a few health conditions collapsed at the end of the meal. He was unwell and lay on the floor for some time until the ambulance came
“We live in Liverpool and my son Samuel was taking the bus to school. He put the trumpet case under the seat at the bus stop and then got on the bus. He only realised the trumpet was missing when he got to school. The trumpet is a 1960s jazz trumpet so is quite expensive.
“A car driver let me out of a tricky junction as their viewpoint was much clearer than me edging out.” We can all appreciate the big difference a small kindness like this makes – that’s something we sometimes discuss in my wellbeing workshops where this story was shared. Learning to focus on these positives is
“I was walking my son’s fox red Labrador, Millie, in Saltram and I lost her. One minute she was there, the next she was gone. I was so so worried. I asked lots of people if they had seen her and so many people were just so kind and wanted to help. One gentleman offered
