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.
“Our local zero waste shop sadly closed recently but the community really rallied round to help them get out, including the Metalidads group and the dad of one of the owners helping take the counter apart.” Tell us about the kindness happening in your local community here. And discover more people as kind as the […]
“After 30 years of trying I finally got a place in this year’s London Marathon. I did all the training after having foot operations and a hip replacement, it wasn’t ideal. By mile 16 I was struggling with my ankle, it had had enough! An amazing spectator asked me if I would like an ankle
“Last week I locked myself out as I left my house to go to my aerobics class. I called my parents who brought my spare key round so that I could get back into my house after my class had finished, rather than waiting for hours until my daughter came home from school.” I suspect
“While walking my dogs I spotted an adult sitting in a garden painting the faces of some very excited children. I don’t know what the context was but I thought it was really kind of them to spend the time turning them into whatever wild and wonderful things they wanted to be!” I suspect many
What kindness has a teenager in your life done lately? Tell us here. On my parents’ wedding anniversary I was working all day so, despite them living only live 15 minutes I didn’t have time to deliver their card. My teenage daughter delivered their card for me while she was out and about on another
“My sister buys lip balm that comes in a set but she doesn’t like one of the flavours so she gives that one to me.” What a lovely reminder that acts we can dismiss because they’re so small or by a loved one are also kindnesses. When we say no kindness is too small, we
We see so much kindness in the freelance community – what kindness have you seen? “I’m part of the Recommended community and when I recently shared that I had had a tough day with potential client work falling through, other members of the group shared their own experiences to help me feel I wasn’t alone.
“I have terminal cancer and sometimes my drugs make me embarrassingly unwell in public. Today I was shopping in Hobbycraft in High Wycombe and I had to abandon my basket and rush out of the shop in fear of throwing up. A few minutes later I composed myself and went back into the shop to
“I spotted a double kindness – in my Facebook group, Mel shared a kindness to self as she celebrated her business success, and included a shout out to me for my guidance and support. It gave me the warm fuzzies and made me tear up with both gratitude for her appreciating me, and joy and
“Last week we were on holiday in Bournemouth. A lady came over and said they had been given some cod bites and chips that they didn’t need (duplicate order) and would we like them? It was a lovely act of kindness from a stranger. The children really enjoyed them. The lady said she didn’t want
