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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.

Close up of inside the top of Flamborough Lighthouse showing the light and many reflectors.

Flamborough Lighthouse

Wonderful Ann’s act of kindness on her holiday warmed my heart this week when she shared it in the Kindness Community group. “I have been in Filey and visited a lighthouse on a very wet, windy Thursday this week. I was the only one for the tour, then a mum and two small children came […]

A bus drives on a wet street towards the camera, writing on the front reads "Reading buses."

Reading buses

Two kindnesses in one story thanks to Lorraine and a Reading waste management employee. An employee on the number 17 bus loaded down with bags of his own and in layers of hi-vis on a very humid day jumped to help an older lady by catching her bags before they fell to the ground. The

7 people wearing purple Under The Stars Festival t-shirts stand close together, hands on each other’s shoulders, in front of one blue bag of rubbish and a stack of black buckets.

Festival goers are friends to the environment

Let’s celebrate the kindness of both attendees and organisers at Underneath the Stars Festival who after 4 days had only 1 small bag of rubbish to dispose of! What a great kindness to the environment, the other attendees and the organisers that everyone disposed of their own rubbish! The festival happened over 50 acres and

A hand written sign on an office door which reads “please ask if you need your water bottle topped up. Stay cool.” A bottle of water and a smiley face have been drawn on the sign.

Heatwave kindness

This year’s heatwave brought with it some amazing examples of kindness. I love this one from Inky Thinking who proves something really simple can have a potentially big impact. Did you give or receive any acts of kindness during the heatwave?

A group of 14 Valeways volunteers wearing high vis jackets standing together and smiling at the camera.

Valeways

What is your community doing to care for the environment? Down in the Vale of Glamorgan, Valeways and their team of volunteers donate their time to keep walking paths clear and safe, taking care of both the environment and their community.

Shereen, a tall Black woman with short red hair, standing beside Danielle, a shorter Black woman with long black hair in a bun, in a Boots store. They are both smiling.

A Boots employee saves the day

Let’s celebrate Danielle, the Boots employee who saved the day! “Even with the best planning in the world, there’s always something that goes wrong 😫. We took over a house to do an intense day of filming. Camera crew, photographer everything was booked and sorted. Everyone arrived minus the makeup artist and all l had

The Alzheimer's Society logo on a white background with a pink border. The Time for Kindness logo in the bottom left.

Community kindness for dementia

Do you look for opportunities to be kind as you go about your day? Karen shared a beautiful story of everyday kindness that her friend posted on Facebook with me. “My mum suffers from dementia and the other day she went to Lidl and couldn’t find her purse. She left the items she wanted to

A footpath beside a road with grass growing along the top of the wall beside it and a large fence above that.

Everybody needs good neighbours

How have you helped out a neighbour? Alexis shared this story of how she showed kindness to her neighbour recently; “As I walked back home from an appointment I saw someone leaning against a wall, bent over, holding a large dog and looking very unwell. I asked, from a distance, if they were OK and

3 mugs of coffee and a packet of McVities chocolate digestive biscuits on a table.

Kindness to council workers

How to make someone’s morning in 3 easy steps from Matt Callanan. Saw some council workers outside my house fixing the paving slabs. 1. Say hello, thank them for sorting the pavement, see if they want a coffee. 2. Make coffee. 3. Deliver with chocolate biscuits. What can you do? Big thanks to Matt for

A delicious looking chocolate orange cake with Terry's chocolate orange slices around the top of it.

Two kindness, one tea shop

“I recently treated myself to a coffee and a slice of cake at one of our lovely local tea shops. It’s a very popular tea shop, a proper community hub, called Annie’s on Newport Pagnell High Street.It was really busy. First of all a lady looked up from her crossword and said to me “would