The knock-on effects of your actions can spread kindness more widely as people read the positive news of what you have done.
Thank you so much to Susie, Kim, Shivonne and all the team for having me as one of their speakers at KindFest this year! I can’t really express just how exciting it was and how honoured I felt to be part of it. I have been an attendee each year since the first KindFest back […]
What I love most about KindFest is that the speakers are doing such a wide range of things, all connected to kindness. From authors to activists to researchers to business people to TV and radio presenters to charity founders (and more). The Kindness in Education awards and Our Dementia Choir will no doubt have me
“I was on the train on my own and reading my book minding my own business and then this lady saw my top and it was a nature one and sat down next to me and explained her husband loved botany. She was in her 80s but was explaining how she was travelling to go
The volunteers of Langdyke Countryside Trust look after 8 nature reserves close to where I live. Many of the reserves are brownfield sites, now supporting a huge variety of wildlife. This sculpture is a Medicine Cabinet inspired by the care, kindness and hard work that Langdyke’s volunteers lavish on those nature reserves. Their work is
In January 2020, my husband had a very serious bike accident, needing major surgery and then months of physical rehabilitation, just when Covid and lockdowns started. The medical care he received at St Mary’s Hospital was second to none but, more than that, the kindness shown to him, and to me, by all the hospital
“I wanted to give a big shout out to Dawn because as a colleague she went over and beyond to ensure I safely got to the station after a work event, late at night. I’m really grateful for her kind act of dropping me to the national railway to catch the last train from Aylesbury
🐴 Louis of Cadbury Lane is a pony who lives alone in a field full of dandelions and other weeds near us at the end of a track in rural Wiltshire which my son named when he was about 5. Louis is always there – I don’t remember a time when he had been taken
“My work is inspired by a quote from Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca: “We are waves of the same sea”. It’s a phrase that I came across via the initial outbreak of Covid-19 when it was written on boxes of face masks delivered to Italy by the Chinese company Xiaomi. These were sent as an act
I was sitting in my garden chatting to my friend in the sunshine and my lovely neighbour handed us a pot of watermelon over the fence. She was cutting some up for her daughters and had more than they could eat. More stories of kindness from neighbours: Neighbour uses Facebook to thank others for beautiful
“YouTuber Jeannie B had a viewer email about their struggles of being in an abusive relationship – Jeannie used her platform to ask for support and advice to be emailed to her so she could send on to that person and to anyone else who contacts her with a similar problem.” What a kind and
