Rent money
On hearing a friend was facing eviction, an anonymous kindness champion loaned him some money to stop that happening. What a huge kindness that made such a big difference to his life.
#ProjectAmplifyKindness
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.
Kind colleagues
Stef has some wonderfully kind colleagues, specifically one who brought in some gluten free custard creams because she remembered Stef was gluten free. And one on reception who opens the doors automatically when he sees her coming. How kind is your workplace?
A kind farmer
“We were camping on a farm and the farmer let my 12 year old have a go driving the little farm truck around the field. It made his day.” Thank you Ellie for sharing such a lovely kindness from her holiday.
Tuneless choir
Do you find joy in singing? Here’s a kindness for you – letting yourself do things that bring you joy, even if you’re not “good” at them is such a powerful self kindness. And the amazing Tuneless Choir has an online group which allows you to ‘sing like no one is listening’ from the comfort
Kindness at work in action
How do you celebrate kindness at work? Julia Levy has started a kindness at work honour roll to celebrate those doing kind things from paying for a colleague’s groceries during a difficult time to mentoring a colleague to help them get a promotion, to driving a colleague to a doctor’s appointment, to spending time helping
Food first community gardens
Does your local community have garden plots? In Stephenville, their Lions Club has community garden plots, a community garden and community market working to address food security. The Lions Motto is “We Serve” and clearly they do a great job serving both the community and the environment. If the Food First NL has inspired you,
Kindness of fitness instructors
Which fitness folks make you feel amazing? For me it’s my Zumba and aerobics teacher, Sedge Gooding. She’s one of the kindest people I know. I’ve always loved her classes – they are fun, varied and she makes us smile as well as work hard. When we were all stuck inside she went above and
Being sporting is kind
Would you sacrifice the chance of a big win to help someone else? That’s what Romain Bardet did during the Liege-Bastogne-Liege cycling race this year. After a huge crash which saw Julian Alaphilippe, another Frenchman but from a different team, hit a tree and land in a ditch, Bardet chose to go and check on
Tanni Grey Thompson shows sports is kindness as much as competition.
For all the competition in sport there’s a lot of kindness too as Tanni Grey Thompson shared on the Comfort Eating Podcast. While talking to Grace Dent, Tanni talked about a time when she was at the Paralympics and gave advice to a really young athlete who was in the same house as her at
Reading Community Cup
Kindness is fun and The Reading Community Cup proved it! “The Reading Community Cup was absolutely awesome! So proud to see so many people coming together at the University. Our aim was to bring people across the local community together and shout loudly about how welcome refugees and sanctuary seekers are in Reading and especially