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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.

Darren in his uniform holding two train tickets with different stickers on them and smiling. A sign behind him reads “This side for platform 1 for trains to Reading. Over the footbridge to platform 2 for trains to Wokingham, Ascot, Staines, Richmond.”

Kids train tickets

How do you cheer up an under 5 who’s sad they didn’t get a train ticket (when their parent is happy because they travel for free!)? Daren, who runs Earley train station in Berkshire, decided to find an answer to that question and bought a load of fun stickers from Tiger to give to small […]

Matilda wearing an ivory, vintage style wedding dress and hat with netting, they are holding a bunch of sweet peas in one hand and the hat to her head with the other.

Sweet peas

I see your last Rolo and raise you the last sweet peas for a wedding! My sister-in-law was due to marry in March 2020, in the end getting married in August with severe limits on the number of people who could attend. But Tilda shared a beautiful story of kindness that came out of it.

Twitter screenshot from Alexis Bushnell reading "Massive thank you to the lovely person at Bridgend train station who gave me directions to the bus station and told me which bus to get after I missed my connection. You hero! In case you see this,| made the bus. Thank you."

Bridgend bus kindness

How can you use your knowledge to help others today? Alexis tweeted after having not long moved to South Wales, “Massive thank you to the lovely person at Bridgend train station who gave me directions to the bus station and told me which bus to get after I missed my connection. You hero! In case

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