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

several donuts covered in sugar.

Donuts in community fridge.

“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 […]

A section of Ely High street with various shops around a pedestrianised area. Someone is walking down the street.

Kindness on Ely high street.

“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

a canal with a narrow boat moored on the far side beside some buildings. The sun is setting off camera and throwing warm light onto the scene.

Picking up a stranger’s dropped litter.

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

a motorbike parked at the side of a small road on a hill in the Newlands pass in Buttermere. Beyond it is a beautiful view of grassy hills on a sunny day.

Kindness on the Newlands pass in Buttermere.

“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

a person wearing a medical hair net, gloves and mask sitting at a table with lots of blood testing equipment on it and paperwork.

Healthcare provider puts on mask for immunocompromised patient.

“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

Sarah, a woman with light skin tone and short grey hair in a bob smiles broadly while holding a book with an orange cover and flowers in a central circle. The book is called “conversations on kindness” by Bernadette Russell

Conversations on kindness book launch!

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

Sarah and Tomson sat in a radio studio together. Sarah is a woman with light skin tone and grey hair tied back wearing a black hoodie which says “kindness matters” on it. Tomson is a man with dark skin tone and bald head wearing all black.

Celebrating International Women’s Month with Berkshire Culture Connect.

As part of the International Women’s Month celebrations I’m on Berkshire Culture Connect today (Sunday, 23rd March) at 8 PM. I was in the studio at B Radio – Berkshire with Tomson Chauke to record it this week and can’t wait for you to hear it. Tune in and be part of the kindness movement!

stairs lead up to Reading crown court, a stone building with archways at the front and tall windows on both the ground and first floors. A coat of arms is displayed on the outside of the first floor behind the balcony. Black railings run around the outside.

Community shows kindness during Berkshire Mock Trial competition.

“Local children were invited to take part in mock trials in the actual crown court near me on a Saturday afternoon to learn how the court system works. The high sheriff and all of the magistrates do it entirely voluntarily and the magistrate even ran sessions after school for the children too. It was for

Sarah and Joe, both women with light skin tone and long grey hair, standing outside under blue skies with Kimel Community Cafe behind them.

Kimel Cafe has kindness at its heart.

My sister, Joe, and I went to a lovely community café, Kimel Cafe, last weekend. It was set up to give neurodivergent young adults, a stepping stone into the workplace, inspired by an American man who did something similar. You can read their story here. It has kindness right at its heart. The coffee and

a trumpet sitting beside it’s case on a tiled floor

Lost 1960s trumpet returned.

“We live in Liverpool and my son Samuel was taking the bus to school. He put the trumpet case under the seat at the bus stop and then got on the bus. He only realised the trumpet was missing when he got to school. The trumpet is a 1960s jazz trumpet so is quite expensive.