These positive news stories cover a wide range of acts of kindness to others that people have taken.
Volunteering is a common and wonderful way to show kindness; have you volunteered? Emma Reeve recently shared the impact a large scale volunteering project had on her and why she still remembers it a year later. “A year ago I had the most incredible experience volunteering on DIY SOS (info on the show here). It […]
We’ve been sharing a lot about kind leaders for the past month and were alerted to wonderful example in Austria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. Beate Meinl-Reisinger helped carry a pram down the stairs of an aircraft that had evacuated people stranded in the Middle East. What kindness have you spotted from leaders recently? You can
“I was in the Tesco store on Lockerbie Road in Dumfries. I put all my shopping on the conveyer belt at the checkout and went to pay, but I’d left my purse at home. I then tried to use Google Wallet to pay, but my debit card hadn’t been registered. I was about to put
“My wife is on a long term hospital stay and very fed up as you’d imagine. She’s vegan so food options sometimes limited. One night there was an issue (chef unwell I think) so that the only available food was very boring indeed, just some rice and boiled veg. One of the nurses rushed to
“My husband and I live near Cambridge and our daughter Grace is at Nottingham Uni. She is a member of the mountaineering society. She drove to the Lake District to climb a hill. The next morning she drove a friend to Birks Bridge and parked ready to go walking. When they returned she found she
The student bar at Southampton put on an event to celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Day. They encouraged students and staff to pay it forward by buying a drink or snack and gifting it to someone else. A simple way “to brighten a stranger’s day, and… help us spark a little extra kindness across campus.”
Seeing kindness has a long lasting effect, making us feel good both at the time and after, and this story from my friend Becky is a wonderful example of that. Becky sent me a story that’s related to something that happened last year; after a fire at Nene Valley retail park, the Charles Bradlaugh pub
“The most amazingly kind couple paid for my entire shop at Sainsbury’s in Cheadle. I had had some bad news in the 24 hours prior to going shopping. I had decided to go to the supermarket with my two young children who were very upset and tired. When I got to the checkout, my phone
“My friend just found out she’s coeliac and was sad about having to give up her favourite snacks. Luckily another coeliac friend recommended some chocolatey favourites so I could pass that on and also told me about the new GF Colin the Caterpillar that M&S had just released. I was round the corner from M&S
“A stranger saw me trying, and failing, to get the attention of a conductor from the train platform in my wheelchair and walked down the platform to get them for me so they could get the ramp so I could get on the train.” Such a simple and small act of kindness that made a
