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.
“After my Autism assessment I used the bathroom and spotted a little bag on the wall of period products for anyone to take what they need. I was super overwhelmed from everything so spotting this little kindness really helped me too.” It’s lovely to hear that seeing kindness had that effect. We’d love to hear […]
“I found a lovely business called The Hive Coworking where I was able to work a few days (until I got COVID) it was bright and sunny and had such a good vibe. I even had a fellow co-worker offer me his folding lap top computer stand to replace my cardboard box – I thought
Nicky from Thrive Bookkeeping got in touch to tell us that she is sponsoring a young goalkeeper in the town where she lives. He’s 12 and she has bought him a pair of gloves. She’s been told that he’s over the moon that someone would do that for him! He’s apparently very good, so who
My Dad has always enjoyed gardening but is finding it much harder as he is aging to keep on top of things. So he now has a gardener called Freddie to help with the ‘heavy’ work. Freddie was admiring all the wooden planters in the garden and Dad told him that he had made them
During a recent storm, the fence in our back garden was swinging wildly in the wind. We weren’t at home at the time, but our 16-year-old neighbour noticed the problem. He saw that the issue was one of the fence posts, so he carried over their rotary washing line (which has a heavy block of
“I got a desk free from someone local and they kindly helped me get it in the car and helped fix the boot closed with a rope when I picked it up. They didn’t need to, they could have let my friend and I struggle with it, so their kindness and evident experience with this
“A hypnotherapist and fellow member of a network I’m part of, told me that a potential client had come to her for an initial exploratory call. It became clear that although the client needed something similar to what she offers, she wasn’t a complete fit. Rather than pressing ahead, she explained this to the client
“In my work group chat someone said there was an accident on a main road a lot of colleagues use. I knew someone who was working today, a 13.5 hour shift and the same yesterday, took that road. It takes them 45 mins to get home normally, with the accident it’ll be at least 1
“A great tip to get you started on how to be kind, is to notice the kindnesses that happen to you. We always remember when somebody lets a door go in front of us and we have a moan about it, but we forget about when someone opens the door for us and keeps it
“When my son was diagnosed with cancer we stayed in hospital for 3 weeks. When we got home, we had food delivered and frozen for around 6 weeks. If not a bit longer. Our wonderful church family made us meals and delivered them unconditionally.” Ensuring people are getting warm, nutritional meals is so important, especially
