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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.

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Kindness in gaming

When even the gaming world is recognising the power of kindness, that makes me really happy 😍 My niece recently sent me this screen shot of a game that she likes to play on her Nintendo switch. In the game, you design your own island and you try to build ‘friendship points’ with your villagers. […]

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Welcoming refugees

This story of kindness in today’s Guardian newspaper sums up exactly why I started Time for Kindness in the first place. Whilst in no way denying the unimaginable horror of the events in Afghanistan, there is an element of the story that illustrates just how kind many, many people are. We need to amplify these parts of

A hand-drawn condolence card of 2 guinea pigs

What if… we help others going through tough times

This month I’m pleased to share with you a new guest blogger, Nicolette Evans. In this moving blog, she talks about her family’s grief at losing a much-loved pet and the kindness that helped them at a difficult time. Recently one of our guinea pigs had to be put down. It was a heart-breaking decision

a ginger guinea pig sitting in a cardboard tube

Pet-sitting

Pet-sitting is a way to show kindness to others. This week we are looking after our niece’s guinea pigs while she is on holiday. Cookie (ginger) and Oreo (the black and white one) are living in their hutch in our garden for a week. We don’t have pets of our own anymore, having lost our

my niece wearing her fluffy top with her camera in front of her face and the caption ‘Your outfit looks nice’

Kind words

My niece sent me this story of kindness. “I thought I would share a story of what someone did for me that I thought was really kind! Every morning I go and say good morning to my mum in her room. And this morning she said to me that my outfit looked really nice. I

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Shopping basket

Checking out how much the person behind you has in their shopping basket* definitely counts as an act of kindness! Emma Cossey messaged me to say: “I’m not sure if it counts, but I’m always warmed by the kindness people show in the queues at Aldi. I’ve noticed people always tend to look behind them,

The view of my bike handlebars and basket from my perspective sitting on the seat

Free carrier bag?

When I turned down the offer of a carrier bag at my local Co-op shop this afternoon, the lad on the till clocked that I had my bike helmet in my hand and repeated the offer, saying he wouldn’t charge me for the bag because I was on a bike. I still said thanks but

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Call out for kindness stories

I want to fill social media with stories of kindness. I believe that people are being kind to each other every day, we just don’t always hear about it. That’s why I started this Time for Kindness account and #ProjectAmplifyKindness. I’m always on the look-out for new stories to tell. So I’d love to know who

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Save his special day

Kindness that made a little boy smile (& may have brought a few tears to my eye 😉) This message appeared on a local FB group this morning: “Does anybody happen to have a Skylanders Imaginators portal for Xbox 360 that we could either borrow or you no longer use please? We bought the game

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Life with MS

I heard a great story of unexpected kindness from a fellow small business owner I was chatting to yesterday. His wife has MS and he was trying to get hold of a particular consumable product that helps her manage her condition. Unfortunately there are currently some issues with it being manufactured. This product makes a