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 lovely Mum spent hours yesterday re-covering the chairs in my kitchen 😍 We had a new kitchen installed over the summer and although we love our table and chairs, the covers were looking shabby next to the shiny new cupboards. I bought some new fabric to go with the tiles, but I’m hopelessly impractical! […]
Day 7 – Help out This week my year 9 daughter and a couple of her friends helped out at an inter-schools football competition for younger kids. They were originally asked to get involved to help keep score. But it turned out that one of the schools didn’t have a PE teacher to help them.
Day 6 – bike maintenance I love my bike! As a non-driver, it is one of my main modes of transport (along with walking and getting the train). Now that I am starting to get in-person meetings with clients back in the diary, I’m cycling more again. On Wednesday this week, I needed to go
Day 5 – pay for their parking I had already planned for today’s kindness story to be about paying for someone else’s parking. It was inspired by a business contact I was talking to at the beginning of the week. The person in front of them in the queue for the station parking meter had
Day 4 – donated quality clothes Last weekend Visit Banbury Community Interest Company undertook the distribution of lots of wonderful donated items from local people to others within their community in #Banbury. This was part of the #100WinterCoats project. They had made lots of partner organisations aware and shared info on social media and local
I am delighted to share with you this month’s guest blog from web designer and global inclusion specialist, Danbee Shin. I heard her speak at a conference last month about the ways she welcomes her clients into her business with kindness. In this blog she shares her simple tips for making everyone feel welcome, supported
Day 3 – Free book exchange On my morning walk recently I chose a slightly different route for a change. Just to mix things up a bit! Although it is very near to my house, I happened along a bit of road that I haven’t been down in a while. And I came across this
Day 2 – get to know people It can be really easy to make assumptions about people based on what we think we know about them. Or what we have been told about them. But these views can stop us from getting to know them as real people. So often, putting aside prejudices and preconceptions
Next Saturday, 13th November, is World Kindness Day. To celebrate, I’m going to share one story of kindness each day this week. Day 1 – litter picking As I walked to my local corner shop yesterday morning, I noticed a group of people in the car park wearing hi-vis jackets. “What are they up to
One of the reasons I set up Time for Kindness was to inspire people. I want to inspire those of us that believe in kindness already. And I want to inspire people who would like to believe in it but are unsure or embarrassed. Because sometimes being kind is portrayed as weak. Or carrying out
