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A collection of posts that show how we are part of a bigger #teamkind when we act with kindness. These stories tell us about the positive things that people do to be kind to others.

a pair of feet with hand knitted socks on them. The socks are stripey in yellow, orange, red, blue and grey.

Hand knitted socks.

My friend Lynda knitted me some socks as a gift – they are cheerful and cosy 😀 . Let’s hear about your kind friends in the comments. Kindness comes in all shapes and sizes from all kinds of people, check out some of our other examples: Brother-in-law fixes laptop with kindness and determination. German books […]

Two women sat at a cafe table. One is tall with light skin tone and short, dark, curly hair, wearing a a light pink jumper. She has beautiful sparkly nails with black cats on them. The other has light skin tone and bright pink hair tied back. She is wearing a yellow knitted cardigan, a very short playsuit and a sunflower lanyard. The are leaning into each other and smiling at the camera. On the table in front of them is a small plate with a slice of banana bread on it and a reusable pink coffee cup decorated in flowers.

Paddington train staff go above and beyond.

“The train staff were so kind on my birthday trip to London. The most notable moment being that we had struggled to get a taxi back to the station and arrived cutting it very fine. The passenger assist man rushed my girlfriend and I to the train and made them hold it while he got

a woman with light skin tone and shoulder length blonde hair wearing a black t-shirt sat at a table typing on a laptop and smiling at the camera.

Repair Cafe volunteer helps elderly man with meter readings.

At the March repair cafe in Barry an elderly man came in confused about how to report his meter readings on the app with his provider sending notifications and things asking him to. It’s not exactly what they do at the repair cafe but the admin woman there helped him do it anyway. He was

screenshot of a post reading My wonderful friends and followers on Fedi just paid my medical bills. They're all beautiful, amazing, and supernaturally fabulous folx!

Fedi friends pay medical bills.

“My wonderful friends and followers on Fedi just paid my medical bills ❤️‍🩹They’re all beautiful, amazing, and supernaturally fabulous folx!” What a lovely act of kindness that takes a huge weight off you. Thank you for sharing. Check out even more examples of kindness with these stories: Southampton uni bar celebrates Random Acts of Kindness

Nine women wearing white aprons and black tshirts, stand outside The Biskery, laughing and looking at each other.

Final kind leaders conversation in the series

This week I’m pleased to bring the last in the current series of conversations with kind leaders: a conversation I had with Saskia Roskom, co-founder of The Biskery, a specialist biscuit baking business. Key takeaways You can listen to the whole of my conversation with Saskia on the Time for Kindness YouTube channel. Please do

A tall white board with red sign on it saying love your colleague day add your post here, with an image of balloon hearts above it. Under and around the sides of the sign are over 20 heart shaped pink and red post its with writing on them.

Love your colleague day.

“We had a love your colleague day at work where people could write notes about the things they appreciate about their colleagues. It was a really positive thing to read the notes, whether you featured in the messages or not. The timing was related to Valentines Day, the following Monday which is the day when

Johannes, a man with light skin tone and bald head standing on stage holding a microphone.

Out now – latest kind leader video!

The feedback we’ve had on our kind leader interviews so far has been really positive. People tell us that they really appreciate hearing about a different side of leadership that isn’t often celebrated. This week we bring you the conversation between Team Time for Kindness member, Alexis, and Johannes Ernst, leader of the FediForum conference.

Two capybara standing on hind legs at a bench on which two women with light skin tone wrapped up warm are sitting. They are stretching to get food that the women are feeding them as the sun hands low in the sky.

Capybara experience for friends.

“I’ve been having a really tough time recently and my friend suggested we go and do the capybara experience to cheer ourselves both up. So kind.” This great example of kindness to self and to a friend was sent in by Dawn Newton via our Instagram. Let’s hear what kind acts your friends have done

Jaz, a man with light skin tone and short black beard, wearing a toot.wales Tshirt, glasses and flat beige cap.

A kind leader building community

There are lots of kind leaders in the world, we just don’t hear their stories often enough. So I’m continuing with the Time for Kindness Kind Leaders campaign. Each person that I’ve spoken to about how they bring kindness into the way they lead has brought interesting perspectives and insight. In a world where the

nine digital post its alternating yellow, pink and green, with a note on each as follows; take a short walk each day to get away from the madness. If you’re not being productive and it’s not 5pm - stop and start it tomorrow. Focus time - turn notifications off for an hour or two to do strategic thinking without interruptions. Openly communication respective workloads and learn how to delegate. Share with others. Do short things you enjoy during a break. Prepare for what you’ll do in a crisis / faced online hostility before it happens. Journaling. Turn your phone off in the evening.

Charity Comms event shows importance of self kindness.

At a recent in-person seminar and networking event from Charity Comms there were some great examples of kindness to self. Sarah, our head kindness cheerleader, was at the event and noticed that the need to support your own resilience with positive things, for example noticing kindness, came up quite a lot – and that’s a