These stories share acts of kindness from real people in every day life. #ProjectAmplifyKindness is about changing the balance of the narrative about the world and how people behave.
“2 very kind gentleman stopped on a very busy M180 motorway near Scunthorpe to help my daughter who had had a puncture. They worked together to quickly change her tyre so she could get home safely. Big thanks to the very smartly dressed chap in the Porsche and the second chap who had doubled back […]
“I’d recently cracked a rib and turned a corner on the underground when travelling round London to see Cabaret at the Kitcat club with my friend Liz and my godmother, Mary. I was faced with two flights of stairs and a suitcase. What to do? I’d been told not to lift anything. Suddenly a young
“My teenage children visited their Great Gran for lunch.. all arranged without me. Proud mum moment and Granny was super happy 😍💜.” It’s obvious Harriet at HP Accountancy has been raising kind kids! Big thanks for sending this story in to us. Discover all the ways people are being kind with stories other people have
I was at the Royal Berkshire Hospital with my Mum for an appointment to get her new hearing aids fitted. It’s a large, confusing building so we were trying to find the right department. Almost the minute we stopped in a corridor to try and work out where we needed to go, a hospital employee
Where did you see kindness this week? I had a lovely bunch of flowers that still had a lot of life in them. Rather than leave them in our kitchen while we went on holiday, I passed them on to a neighbour so that she could get enjoyment out of them. Get inspired with more
Georgina told us that a kindness she experienced recently is “people donating or sharing my fundraiser for a children’s charity.” Helping to fundraise is a huge kindness and there’s so many ways to do it too, so we love this. Find even more acts of kindness in these stories: Better Together Community supports artists. Knight
I went out for a curry with some friends and all 3 of the drivers in the party offered me a lift home so that I didn’t have to walk half an hour in the dark. How do your friends show you kindness? Remind yourself that it’s not just friends who are kind with these
“Someone sent me a really lovely message the other day to say ‘I hope the world moves into a phase where it values people like you who are nurturers and want to build things. Instead of valuing celebrities and obsessive money makers as it does now.’ It was so wonderful to hear and really helped
The recent riots which created such distress and damage also highlighted what was undoubtedly the single biggest show of collective kindness we’ve seen in the UK for a long time. People coming out en masse to protect those who were being targeted. Communities coming together to clean up the mess left by the rioters. Social
This supermarket kindness is just one example of the kindness Emma experienced at the Paris Olympics. What have you experienced? “At the supermarket, an elderly man moved his shopping behind mine at checkout so I could go first. No idea why, we both had about the same amount of stuff. Just being nice, I guess!”
