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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 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

15 people stand in a group smiling and waving at the camera in a park. They are all wrapped up in coats and hats but the sun is shining.

Small business huddle

My friend Debs told me about how kind and welcoming everyone at her networking group was when they met up in person for the first time last week. They had met and started to build connections online. Debs was one of the first to arrive, feeling a little bit nervous, and the excited waves she

A beautiful large lake viewed through long grass, surrounded by lush green trees. The sky above is light blue with fluffy white clouds.]

Country park kindness

While sitting on a large balcony overlooking a lake in the sunshine and drinking coffee at a café at Dinton Pastures Country Park with friends, my friend, Mike, suddenly leapt up and dashed across the terrace. He had spotted an elderly couple making their way down the stairs to the ground floor, both with walking

Tris pointing a camera at an unseen family by the river in London

Kindness in London

Lots of kindness on display during a family Easter day trip to the Tower of London yesterday. A passenger on the Tube giving their seat to someone else who needed it more Miss B pointing out the seat-giving to me because she knew I would want to mention it here (she drew the line at