These positive news stories cover a wide range of acts of kindness to others that people have taken.
“While out with the dogs in my new powerchair, I navigated some kissing gates which, thankfully, were designed for wheelchairs. But several people offered help in case I needed it which was really kind.” It’s so wonderful that multiple strangers showed kindness – such a great example of how kindness really is the norm! What […]
“I was riding my motorbike home along the A6 when a man in a work van pulled up next to me and informed me that I had a flat tyre. As he was a fellow biker, he said he had the kit to fix it in his van. So we pulled up on the side
“London: trying the buses instead of taxis between train stations. Bus packed, wheelchair space full of standing passengers. They leapt off, loaded me in, and re-packed around me with ‘Which stop do you want, luv?’ I was used to this travelling through Paris; was good to meet it in London too.” We hear so often
“Norwich. Complicated bus route; I got on the one that didn’t do the loop to the hospital, and realised after it stopped at the next stop. Help? to driver. He laughed, pulled out to block the correct bus which would pass without stopping, shouted to explain to other driver, and they got me on the
“When in holiday season the combined wheelchair-bicycle-area in a train was completely occupied with bikes and a wheelchair user entered, everybody (not only the owners) got up at once and helped to free the space and someone organised a bicycle stack with each bike attached to each other in the order of when the owners
A whole Somerset village showed kindness this summer – what kindness did you see during your holidays? “Summer during the high holiday season must be a nightmare for the tiny quaint communities that have holiday lets. Tiny country lanes, parking is a premium and then the Grockles arrive! My husband and I arrived at a
Help us get Monica’s gratitude to the mystery kindness superhero at the The Gate Clock! “I would like to say a very big thank you, to the lovely person who handed my mum’s rucksack in to the bar of The Gate Clock Wetherspoons in Greenwich on Monday 15th September. We had left the pub before
“I live next to an off ramp from a limited access highway in America, and frequently see homeless people begging at the top of it. A lot of times, I’ll go down and offer them some home cooked food. I usually have a vat of something in my fridge, but I’ll at least whip them
“Hi all, I’m just reaching out to try and trace a family who was out walking in Dinton Pastures. I had quite a nasty fall whilst walking around the lake, and these people very kindly stopped to help as I had hurt my back and couldn’t get up. They not only went and got the
During the pandemic, Sara Yahia started writing weekly letters to strangers in retirement homes. She didn’t expect replies, but some came. Evelyn, 91, wrote, “You made me feel seen.” Martin, 85, sent a photo and a truth: “Say how you feel before silence does.” Lucie, 94, couldn’t write herself, but her granddaughter passed along her
