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

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Include Choir

When I saw the Include Choir at KindFest I knew I wanted to share them on Time for Kindness. The Include Choir support people with communication disabilities and is led by Speech therapists. They have so many wonderful songs using Makaton signs and even online inclusive meetings so everyone can join in. Find out more […]

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Jodi Ann Bickley – kindness superhero

Meet Kindness Superhero Jodi Ann Bickley who writes hugs in an envelope to people. An avid letter writer, author, doodler, mum and over thinker, Jodi writes letters to people to share some love and kindness with them. She’s also written two books, One Million Lovely Letters and ‘Write A Letter’ which helps people to write

Packets of Tesco's bourbon biscuits and McVities Ginger nuts with 2 of each biscuit out on a table.

A community supporting their pharmacy

A local Facebook group came together to support their pharmacists in a real show of community and kindness. The original post said “Just to let members know the queue for the pharmacy is very long if you need prescriptions, I’m about 40th in the queue.” Replies soon came in saying how cheerful the staff remain,

Two small dogs wearing jumpers sitting on a mustard coloured sofa in a cafe. On a table in front of them is a coffee and scone, one of the dogs is sniffing at the scone.

Community warm spaces

The Warm Spaces Project seems to me to be a fantastic example of kindness. Both the offering of warm spaces and the initiative to build a directory so that people can find the spaces near them. I also hope it is an act of kindness for us to tell you lovely people about the directory

A residential area at dusk with a lamp post coming on and cars parked underneath it.

Teenagers help an elderly woman after a fall

When Jenna’s auntie took a bad fall in an car park two teenagers went out of their way to help her. Jenna was compelled to share in a local Facebook group to find the teens, she wrote “My auntie took a pretty bad fall earlier on this evening, in the dark, around Nicholl Court car

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Celebrating kindness superheroes

It’s 2 years since I started Time for Kindness. Despite being a short time compared to other things I’ve worked on, it is already up there on the list of things I am most pleased to have done. From the beginning my aim has been to highlight the kindness that I believe exists in the

the back of a milk float filled with milk and eggs.

A milkman goes above and beyond

Milkman, Darin, came to the aid of one of his customers on his own birthday! He shared in a Facebook post; “So with today being my birthday and having to work it for the first time in many years i started the day thinking I would crack today’s round out, then get home and put

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Walmart employee goes above and beyond

Manda, a Walmart employee in Aberedeen, South Dakota not only fixed Nicole’s tyre but also taught her how to use it herself in future. What a wonderful act of kindness that made Nicole’s day and the rest of her life a bit easier!

5 teenagers standing on a netball pitch, 3 holding netballs, the others holding pens and whistles, on a sunny day.

The kindness of Bulmershe School’s students

Bulmershe School tweeted how lucky they are to have such fantastic students who support them in our extra-curricular after some of the year 12s helped to run a primary school netball tournament. It’s wonderful to see kindness being celebrated in schools – what kindness have you seen from children recently?

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