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.
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
We love Positive News here and we were especially excited to hear about their new project sharing positive news headlines on outdoor screens! We’d love for you to tag us (as well as Positive News) if you see any out in the wild – it’s a great way to practice seeing kindness. And who knows
“I grew up in a family of six kids – full of noise, nurture and food. Dad was out working so Mum and cooking were the constants in our life – and our home always smelled of baking. During the financial challenges of the 1970’s, every day without fail we had a home cooked food
“As I got off my train today, a lady was trying to rush down the stairs in high heels to get on the train. She called out to the train guard because the combination of weather, heavy gritting and shoes was making it difficult to move very fast. The guard held the train for the
