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The knock-on effects of your actions can spread kindness more widely as people read the positive news of what you have done.

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How you can support Time for Kindness

If you want to see more kindness in the world and support what we’re doing here at Time for Kindness, here are 3 ways you can do that: 1) Share our content!Post stories you love to your Stories, tag friends who need to see that kindness exists, tell your friends about us when you talk […]

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What if… we create ripples of kindness?

I’m delighted to re-start the kindness guest blogs with this one from compassionate therapist, Phil Gowler, about the ripples of kindness he sees in the world. Little acts add up to something much bigger than the sum of their parts. Kindness and Quantum Wow, doesn’t that title sound pretentious? Here I am, preening myself at

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A meaningful gift

On World Mental Health Day K came home to this fabulous gift from a friend. The friend had sent them to a few other mums who she knows don’t always have the easiest of times. What a wonderful gift to act as a constant reminder that people are supporting you and willing you on. What’s

LinkedIn screenshot of a post from Kate Stansfield reading “I know nerves are supposed to be a good thing and all that, but I wish I could keep mine at a more balanced level, instead of them turning me into a quivering mess! I AM looking forward to delivering another climate action talk this afternoon (this time to the ITI Parent Network), but I'll also be very relieved when it's over! Trying to focus on how right it feels to be doing this. Alignment of my values and all that. Not to mention the importance of community and of having these conversations, especially on the back of completing my Carbon Literacy training with Jen Gale last week... But I just hope there's no "mind gone blank" moments and apologise in advance if that happens!”

Supporting colleagues

Supporting someone and cheering them on when they’re nervous is such a huge act of kindness, and one that Sea Change Multilingual experienced last week. As the nerves overtook the excitement before her talk on climate action she shared with her LinkedIn network how she was feeling and the response was overwhelming support. Friends and

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post from Nikki Wrench reading “Supporting people to get new jobs in the sector is one of my favourite things to do! I’ve lost count now of the amount of people that I’ve had the pleasure of working with, helping them to build their CVs, practising interview skills and building their confidence around having conversations about salary! Every person that I’ve supported this year has got the job and it’s the best feeling in the world getting messages like this. They all have the potential to get the job without my help - all I’m doing is helping them to feel more prepared and therefore more confident. I’d highly recommend doing this - it’s a great way to volunteer your skills and bring more fantastic fundraisers into the charity sector.”

Furloughed fundraisers

Isn’t it amazing when even more good comes of a kindness. I featured Nikki’s fundraisers support group on Time for Kindness last year as she’d set up a support group for fundraisers who had been furloughed. Recently she posted over on LinkedIn about some huge successes she’d had while supporting other fundraisers to get new

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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

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5 charities that changed my life

As a comms and strategy specialist for not-for-profit organisations, charities are a big part of my life. I want to make a positive difference in the world and helping organisations with a vision of a kinder world to communicate well is my way of doing that. This blog celebrates the difference that charities have made

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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

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Brain fog tips

I’ve been recovering from covid and received so much kind advice when I asked for tips on dealing with brain fog. Not only many lovely tweets but several people emailed me with things they find helpful for dealing with the brain fog they get that isn’t covid related but due to other conditions they have

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Pay it forward

How do you pay kindness forward? Emma told us how she paid it forward after a neighbour’s partner checked out and fixed the scratch on her car, she gave another neighbour Malteser chocolate tiffin- simply because they are great people. Paying forward kindness in small (and delicious) ways is a lovely way to make our