These positive news stories cover a wide range of acts of kindness to others that people have taken.
Have you ever donated your hair? Benebell Wen has been doing it for a very long time now and she shared her story alongside her latest donation and has even more kindly allowed me to share it here. “Obligatory before and after photos. 😁 Last time I did this was 2018, and before that was […]
This year I treated myself to a ticket to the Women of the World Festival in London. This annual event has been running since 2010 when the first festival took place at the Southbank Centre in London. Since then, WOW Festivals celebrating women and girls, and taking a frank look at the obstacles they face,
While on a train journey at the weekend, I saw somebody helping to carry a child’s pushchair down some stairs. It’s really is tricky when you’re travelling on public transport with a buggy, so it always pleases me to see this sort of thing – such an easy way to show kindness. As long as
‘Notice the kindness around you’ was the top tip from author, broadcaster and lecturer, Claudia Hammond, at the launch event for the Sussex Centre for Research on Kindness last night. Team TfK member Steph Oldham and I went to the event virtually. We were delighted to hear that message from Claudia of course, it’s our
Our car had broken down, and the decision was made that whilst I caught a bus to work, my husband would ring and wait for the breakdown people to arrive. As he was working too, he was hot-spotting from the car which whilst not ideal, could have been worse. Then, after a series of unfortunate
When Dawn was waiting in A&E for over 5 hours while in a lot of pain, she was thrilled to meet Archie, a cat who visits the hospital to comfort patients. Dawn shared her story with me “I was in so much pain due to gallstones but then we got a visit from the famous
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
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
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,
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
