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These positive news stories cover a wide range of acts of kindness to others that people have taken.

some dark stained wooden planting boxes filled with brightly colours plants outside on a sunny day.

Gardener gifts wood to dementia patient to build planters.

My Dad has always enjoyed gardening but is finding it much harder as he is aging to keep on top of things. So he now has a gardener called Freddie to help with the ‘heavy’ work. Freddie was admiring all the wooden planters in the garden and Dad told him that he had made them […]

A large amount of boxes stacked at one side of a library.

Local business comes to the rescue of community library.

“Our local library is being refurbished thanks to local volunteers – and a local business who packed up and stored the books in a secure facility. In total Black Vault Storage removed and stored 153 boxes, or 5.2 tonnes of library goodies! They responded to a last minute call for help and have even gifted

View of a road running through the Scottish mountains with lakes in the valley to the left. Text overlaid reads “nurse starts shift early so colleague can start long drive home sooner.”

Nurse starts shift early so colleague can start long drive home sooner.

“In my work group chat someone said there was an accident on a main road a lot of colleagues use. I knew someone who was working today, a 13.5 hour shift and the same yesterday, took that road. It takes them 45 mins to get home normally, with the accident it’ll be at least 1

An outdoor screen on a busy town centre showing a Positive News headline reading “hot tip: former landfill site in England becomes solar farm.”

Positive news provides even more opportunities to see positivity and kindness!

We love Positive News here and we were especially excited to hear about their new project sharing positive news headlines on outdoor screens! We’d love for you to tag us (as well as Positive News) if you see any out in the wild – it’s a great way to practice seeing kindness. And who knows

Close up of the back of a car in deep snow with a yellow tow cable attached to it.

Driver stuck in snow gets towed by stranger.

“I would like to nominate the kind Father & son of Dark Lane in Blackrod Bolton who rescued me in the snow on Tuesday 16th January. I got stuck in the snow while driving to work from Wigan to Bolton, going down the Hill on Dark Lane. Suddenly the traffic came to a standstill and

Black ice on a road. Text overlaid reads “accident on black ice creates cycle of kindness.”

Accident on black ice creates cycle of kindness.

“Hitting some black ice, my son in law Brett skidded off a dark road in Scotland early on 17th Jan, leaving his car precariously dangling over a 20 feet drop. Having called the emergency services and awaiting their arrival, Brett stood guard on the road, warning other drivers of the accident and of the danger

a valley thick with snow, trees visible up the sides and on the top. Text overlaid reads “Stranger rescues people stuck on icy road.”

Stranger rescues people stuck on icy road.

“Heading out for a walk in the snowy countryside of Goyt Valley today, my friend and I got stuck on an icy road and thought we were going to have to abandon her car. Having tried several options to resolve our situation, to no avail, along came a very kind man in his 4 wheel

The Together for Humanity logo above 6 photos of vigils for peace. All showing people from all walks of life coming together holding or lighting candles.

UK-wide Together for Humanity vigil

Have you attended any of Together for Humanity’s peace vigils – or are you planning to attend one? The next UK wide vigil is on Sunday 21st January. The vigils are such a wonderful show of kindness as so many people come together for the cause of peace – a demonstration of the Time For

A grey box with the lid off containing kids toys, a bag of children’s clothes, and some books.

Take/Give box appears on estate in South Wales.

“Our estate has a ‘take give box’ on it where people can put things they don’t want and anyone can help themselves. There’s even cans of food and kids clothes in it which I’m sure is making a difference to those in need in our community. It’s such a simple thing to set up but