These positive news stories cover a wide range of acts of kindness to others that people have taken.
I recently heard about the Age Positive Image library; the first free library showing positive and realistic images of older people. This struck me as being a great example of kindness because representation is so powerful and it goes hand in hand with a campaign from the Centre for Ageing Better to challenge ageism for […]
“I was waiting for my doctors appointment, when two older men came in. It soon became apparent that one of them had found the other out of breath and seemed to be very confused. This man took him to the doctors and got him sorted and as it turned out he had an appointment in
“My son, Thomas, fell off his BMX and knocked his front teeth out and bust his lip. In my panic I knocked on a random door and asked for some milk to put the teeth into. I’d like to thank the lovely lady (I didn’t get her name) from Crigglestone near Wakefield who gave me
“My job is to work with communities to plant trees in Fife as part of climate action. I was working early in the morning to prepare for 4 local High schools to come out and plant trees in Dunnikier Park, Fife. I was digging some holes for big trees to go in along a main
“I just dropped off a dozen donuts (rescued from the local donut shop) to the community fridge. A family of immigrants were checking the fridge and gladly took them.” This wonderful story was shared over on Mastodon and the poster, @tinker@infosec.exchange, kindly allowed us to share it here too. Remind yourself just how much kindness
“I returned to Ely to buy a tall, slim chest of drawers that I had seen earlier in the week. Ely is one of those places with a traditional High Street and strange one way systems and really interesting and cool shops. My chest of drawers shop is in the centre and being unfamiliar with
I was on my way to the Media Trust volunteering event in a building near Regents Canal in London when I saw someone a little way ahead of me drop a cereal bar wrapper on the floor. They obviously hadn’t noticed it fall out of their pocket, so I picked it up and put it
“I was riding my new motorbike, coming near to the end of my ride and thought I’d head up to one of Cumbria’s beautiful passes, in this case it was the Newlands pass in Buttermere. I parked my bike up (in gear, I’m new but not stupid, or so I thought) and got off to
“I went for a blood test the other day and for the first time ever, not only did a healthcare provider see me masked and ask if I wanted them to mask in a way that showed empathy and that this wasn’t a big deal – they also then proceeded to inform me ‘just to
I’m so excited to be attending Bernadette Russell’s book launch and show – the true story of one woman’s mission to answer the question “Can Kindness Change the World?” On Thursday my husband, daughter and I will be at The Albany to support my friend while enjoying her comedy about how, despite what we are
