These positive news stories cover a wide range of acts of kindness to others that people have taken.
A Canadian couple is donating socks to keep unhoused people warm over winter. Dwayne and Jenn Hayes are now running the 20k Sock Day initiative. The idea is you simply put out a collection bin, collect socks from those in your area, and then take them to a homeless shelter. Making sure to let 20k […]
“I’m sure many of you will have seen the legend that is Brenda Percy, age 92, walking around Llantwit Major picking up litter and collecting drinks cans. She collects the cans to raise money for the Boys Brigade. If you would like to help Brenda on her quest to collect cans please bring your cans
“We found a large, old, framed picture of a small boy in our loft – thanks to the power of Facebook we were able to find the family it belonged to and return it.”
Community and Tesco came together to provide 75 households in need with a Christmas hamper! “All of us at FoodShare Pantry Llantwit Major would like to say a HUGE thank you to the team at Tesco Barry Superstore, as well as the villagers of St Mary Church and Welsh St Donats, who collectively donated enough
“Off the back of the kindness pledge we appear to have a kindness postbox where the children are posting about things they have seen (and a few sibling grievances!)” What a wonderful idea to keep track of the kindness you’re seeing from our newest Kindness Ambassador, Laura Dennison!
“On a dark, miserable December morning, just after 7am, taking the (ridiculously early to me as I am not a earlybird) train from Cardiff to Bristol. Two trains in fact. I bought my £20 ticket at my local station. But when I changed trains at the central station for the mainline service to Bristol, my
For those alone or struggling over the festive season, the #JoinIn hashtag across social media is a wonderful show of kindness and community. Anyone can post to the hashtag and find others to chat to, support people, and just come together and feel less alone at a time that can be so hard for so
“My friend is going through a divorce whilst still living in the same house as her husband. She works part-time, her car recently broke down and she was really worried about Christmas. I have a box of unwanted gifts, unused items, freebies from when I have bought things and some nearly new stuff that looks
“At the Rhondda book fair I spotted this selection of books which are published in Dyslexia friendly print. I thought it was so amazing to see not only that it had been considered but that they’d been brought to a book fair and it being normalised to see these options. Accessibility is a kindness and
“I was standing outside with my toddler to give our binmen their Christmas tip as they came past. One of them went to put it in the cab and came back with a selection box for her! He said they like to give them out to all the kids who they see on their route
