Below are some examples of kind acts you can perform on Kindness Day or for a longer Kindness initiative but the possibilities are infinite.

Please contact us if we can support your Kindness Day plans or Kindness Initiative.

• Send a kind text to someone you know. This could be a thank you, well wish, compliment, remembrance of a kind deed or anything kind!
• Say good morning to everyone on your way into work and good evening on your way home
• Eat lunch with someone new
• Clean the communal refrigerator, microwave or oven in your workplace
• Hold the door open for those behind you
• Sign up to the organ donor register
• Give someone a compliment – it can make their day, week or year!
• Surprise your colleagues with a kind post-it note on their desk
• Volunteer at a soup kitchen
• Bring in treats for your colleagues
• Offer to buy a drink or some food for a homeless person
• Go through your possessions and donate items you no longer use to charity
• Make yourself known to anyone elderly or vulnerable in your community so they have somewhere to turn if they need help
• Become a pen friend to someone less fortunate than you
• Volunteer at a nursing or care home
• Take the time to get to know your colleagues
• Spend time with someone who might be lonely
• Send a thank you email to a friend or colleague
• Help an elderly person with their shopping
• Leave money in a parking metre, ticket or vending machine for the next person
• When paying for yourself, offer to pay for someone else too (e.g. in a coffee shop or at a train station)
• Write a letter to a member of the armed services thanking them for their service
• Join or set up a local community group with a view to getting to know your neighbours and increasing the sense of care and community in the area
• Write a blog about kindness in society
• Support charities and good causes on your social media pages
• Give food coupons to a homeless person
• Take the time to really listen to someone
• Give blood
• Donate coats and blankets to a homeless shelter
• Share positive posts on your social media pages
• Pay the road/bridge toll for the vehicle driving behind you
• Cook a meal for someone else – e.g. deliver a lasagne to a new mother
• Surprise a loved one with a kind note e.g. in their lunch box
• Donate creative items, toys or games to a children’s hospital
• Offer to return someone’s shopping trolley in the car park
• Write a note of encouragement and place it inside a book or magazine in a waiting room
• Leave a pile of pennies by a fountain for passers by to make a wish
• Write positive online reviews for places you have visited or businesses you have gone to
• Pay someone a compliment (in person and via social media)
• Write a thank you letter to a teacher who stands out from your education
• Wash a friend or family member’s car or bike for them
• Make cakes and bring them into work and ask for donations to your chosen charity in return for a slice
• Buy a lottery ticket and give it to a stranger
• Volunteer at a charity shop
• Spend time to get to know your neighbours
• Let someone go in front of you in the queue
• Pick out good causes on the internet and ‘like’ or ‘follow’ them
• Volunteer at your local health centre
• Put your loose change in a charity box
• Undertake a litter pick in your local area
• Walk or cycle to reduce your carbon footprint
• Start a recycling initiative
• Volunteer for an environmental charity or organisation
• Make a vegetable patch and grow your own produce
• Plant a tree – fast-growing, deciduous trees (that require little maintenance) provide most effective carbon capture
• Help to create a new green space in the community
• Donate clothes to a charity shop, homeless shelter or offer them to friends
• Make your own cleaning products from everyday ingredients like lemon juice and vinegar
• Learn how to compost
• Plant a tree or a hedge in your garden
• Free-cycle, post anything that you don’t need anymore online, free to collector
• Adopt a rescued animal as your pet
• Write a blog about kindness to nature
• When gardening, plant different types and species to support a range of wildlife
• Attract bugs and amphibians to your garden by creating a woodpile
• Feed ducks in the park
• Have a meat-free day
• Make a bird house and leave bird seed out
• Take your pet for a long walk and give it treats
• Donate to a nature charity (this can be one focused on animals, sea-life, conservation of natural habitats etc)
• Make a house for hedgehogs
• Volunteer for a nature charity
• Get involved with recording animals and plants where you live
• Donate old towels or blankets to an animal shelter
• Make a bee home and fix it in your garden
• Put up a nest box up
• Take part in a wildlife survey – surveys are essential for assessing the status and needs of wildlife