These positive news stories cover a wide range of acts of kindness to others that people have taken.
“I was in Starbucks and I noticed these leaflets. I knew I had to send it in to Time for Kindness!” We love their ‘kick off a conversation over a coffee’ campaign – it combines head kindness cheerleader, Sarah’s, two big loves; kindness and football! The campaign is in collaboration with The Harry Kane Foundation […]
“One of my favourite music artists, Grace Petrie, recently changed the venue for some of her tour dates after learning they weren’t accessible. I was so thrilled to see this – it’s such a kindness and I’m sure it created a lot of extra work behind the scenes, so that she chose kindness and prioritising
“A very kind man stopped his run to rescue my two small terriers that decided to chase a rowing boat off the river bank. The bank was so steep it was impossible for me to reach the dogs and get them out. The stranger stopped his run, took off his socks and trainers got down
“Our headteacher is letting kids come in late on Monday so they can watch the Euro finals. That’s kindness!” Sports related kindness holds a special place in my heart so I really loved this story from Joanne – and I’d love to hear yours too! More stories of kindness in sports: Receptionist lends shoes to
“I would like to say a big thank you to the gentleman in Iceland this afternoon, who was behind my elderly mum in the checkout queue. My mum had forgotten her bank card and was unable to pay for her items, and the chap kindly said he would pay for it. He said with a
“In my local Facebook group someone posted to say, ‘The kindness of our people in our town just keeps getting better. Thank you so much to who ever just paid for the shopping in the corner shop when I sent my child over, just transferred money over to my card and someone had paid for
“I mentioned I’d run out of NoWa toothpaste tabs in a group chat for a community pantry I’m part of and someone mentioned they had some they’d not got on with that they’d give me to tide me over.” These small kindnesses make a huge difference – what kindness have you seen this week? Here’s
I believe that kindness is a positive thing. Whether you are being kind, you are receiving kindness or you notice it take place, you feel better as a result. So I am delighted that there is an increasing body of academic research that is proving this positive effect to be true. The Sussex Centre for
Local business Vale Gardeners is paying forward the support of their community by offering a free service to elderly locals with overgrown gardens. Their post in a local group read “Due to the on going support our business has received from the community! We are looking to give back! If anyone knows someone elderly with
“To raise funds for our local library locals donated plants for their plant and book sale. There was a great selection including tomato, cucumber, strawberries, poppy, cacti and so much more. Local gardeners had clearly grown stuff specifically for the event. One of the tomato plants I picked up was actually grown by a 4
