These good news tales about the kindness of strangers are intended to be uplifting and give readers faith in humanity.
“I was sitting at Waterloo Station and had picked up the free London newspaper – I had it on my lap, I wasn’t yet reading it because I was doing something on my phone. An elderly lady sitting next to me asked where I’d got it from as she had a long wait before her […]
“I saw someone give up their seat for an older passenger on the Tube. At first she said she didn’t need to sit down but the other person insisted and so she said ‘that’s very kind.’” Noticing these moments of kindness is powerful and really good for us too. Commit to noticing more kindness by
“Thank you to the two gentlemen who rescued me when I stupidly ran for the tube Friday morning at Bounds Green and fell down, my foot caught in the closing door. They freed my leg, then had to lift my fat bod back up. My heroes.” Kindness heroes indeed! A big thank you to the
My daughter’s bike light fell off as she was riding to football training. She didn’t notice until she got there. She sent a message to my husband to tell him what had happened. When he cycled the same route a bit later on his way to pick her up, he found the light – someone
We went out for a pub lunch at The Waterside Woodley to celebrate my Mum’s birthday. We were trying (unsuccessfully) to take a selfie of the 5 of us and include the pub itself in the photo. A man just arriving with his son saw what we were doing and offered to take a photo
“I was running late to my covid vaccination and the tiny car park was full and to get out I needed to reverse onto busy main road to get out. As I was turning around I noticed an old guy with a dog at the entrance to car park. I thought he was stopping traffic
“On the way back from a spooky Halloween walk through moor valley our car broke down on the A31 eastbound. We just made it up the hill and on to the beginning of a slip road to tuck in behind a highway maintenance truck. I got my two boys ages 8 and 10 out the
“I wanted to thank the lady who was amazingly helpful and kind when I was having a little bit of a meltdown and not able to charge my electric car at yet another electric car charging point. We’ve had a wild few weeks moving between houses waiting for our house to finally go through (which
“Outside Starbucks, a worker was taking the full bag out of the bin to replace it. The bag ripped open at the bottom and everything came out. A group of teenage school girls ran over to help pick everything up.” Big thanks to Emma Cossey for sending us this wonderful story of kindness – a
We loved seeing the outpouring of kindness for Defib the cat through the #SaveDefib campaign after it seemed the ambulance station’s resident and elderly cat would be evicted. Kindness won the day though and the new management is allowing Defib to stay in the only home he has known for 16 years with the people
