60 Acts of Kindness
We could all do with being a little kinder to each other and I know that when I receive kindness or am kind it makes my whole day better.
With that in mind, I’ve come up with a list of 60 Acts of Kindness I will one day implement as a challenge or a to-do. We shouldn’t have to remind ourselves to be kind, but it can be helpful and illuminating to focus on kindness a little more than we already do.
Help someone
- Lift a buggy onto the tube or up/down some stairs for a struggling parent
- Assist an elderly person onto a bus or across a street
- Pick up a dropped item for a stranger
- Give money to a homeless person
- Offer your seat to someone who is standing with bags, crutches, children etc
- Give some change to someone who needs it at the supermarket, on the bus etc
- Give a homeless person a coffee or something warm this winter
- Mow the lawn or do some basic gardening for an elderly neighbour
- Pull over when you see someone has broken down to help with a tire or a jump-start
- Cat-sit or babysit for free for a co-worker or friend
- Register to be an organ donor
- Give blood
- Offer to help a friend or co-worker move into a new place
- Stop to let someone cross the street
- Take in your neighbours parcels if they’re out
Volunteer
- Volunteer at a charity shop
- Talk to a volunteer on the street or become a volunteer
- Do a charity walk or run, or volunteer as a helper at an event
- Volunteer at your local youth club or day service
- Offer to help a friend or co-worker move into a new place
- Volunteer for the Samaritans
- Foster cats and/or dogs for the local shelter
Give back
- Give items to charity when you no longer want/need them
- Give items to people who need them – items for a new baby, food for people going through tough times, books for children
- Donate books to schools that have limited funds
- Run 5k for charity
- Visit hospitals, day services, or care homes to keep people company
- Make items for charity events – cakes, arts and crafts etc
- Organise a charity fair at work
- Do a sponsored… silence, bake-off, challenge etc
- Take part in Memory Walks to raise awareness
- Organise an event to raise awareness or money for a charity or person
- Create a Kickstarter or GoFundMe page for those in need
- Donate books to the local library
- Plant a tree in memory of someone
Random acts of kindness
- Leaves books on the tube, at trains stations or bus stops with notes on
- Post-Christmas cards to all of your neighbours down the street
- Create a Free Library on your doorstep where readers can leave and take books for free
- Pay-it-forward by getting the next person’s coffee at a coffee chain
- Give a homeless person some food when you leave a supermarket or corner shop
- Send your friend a message just to say you’re thinking of them or to send them a compliment
- Donate to a food bank
- Donate items to a local hospice
- Chat to a parent whose child has had/is having a tantrum in the supermarket
- Don’t be rude to call centre workers, thank them but no thank you
- Buy a friend lunch or dinner
- Share chocolates at work with your colleagues
- Let someone go in front of you in the queue
- Leave a pile of pennies by a wishing fountain
- Give your postman/postwoman a Christmas card and present
- Leave a Christmas present/card for the milk deliverer
- Give your newspaper delivery person a bonus at Christmas
- Chat to the supermarket cashier and ask them about their day
- Send a handwritten letter to your grandparents
- Phone a relative you haven’t spoken to in a while
- Give money to a busker
- Bake some treats for your colleagues
- Buy food for the local animal shelter
- Have a conversation with the delivery driver
- Offer builders/plumbers/electricians who come to your house a cup of tea and some biscuits
Kindness costs nothing and with the last few years we’ve had, we could all do with a little extra kindness. Let me know which act of kindness you think you’re going to try.
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