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.
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!”
We recently learned that the England men’s football team donate their £2,000 per international game wages to charity. Since this started in 2007 they have donated £15m to charities across the UK. Their kindness with these donations is having a huge impact across the UK. There is so much kindness in sport across the board
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“One of my dad’s neighbours gave him a lawnmower for me as mine’s broken and my dad gave him a box of vegetables from his allotment as a thank you.” Let’s hear about your kind neighbours in the comments ⬇️. Need some more reminders about how kind people are? Check out these stories: Blind social
“A group of spectators let me come back to the front of the barrier between two triathlon races because I was desperate for the loo.(Okay, fine, I was desperate for a coffee too 😅).” What a lovely story of kindness at the Olympics from Emma Truscott! We hope you got your coffee too! We’d love
“As a Blind person, I never thought I would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, I learn
Today is UK Black Pride, the world’s largest celebration of LGBTQIA+ people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American and Middle Eastern-descent. As ever, it is filled with examples of kindness and providing a shining beacon of joy, love and compassion. We are loving hearing about all of the kindness at this event so please, get
