What is World Kindness Day?
Have you heard of World Kindness Day? We hadn’t until quite recently, but it seems to be a national day worth observing.
Falling on 13th November each year, World Kindness Day is, as the name suggests, a day dedicated to promoting kindness and we can all benefit from being a little kinder!
Officially, World Kindness Day and Kindness Day UK are separate events but, as they fall on the same day and have the same objective, we see nothing wrong with marking both.
If you like the sound of Kindness Day, visit the website and pledge your very own act of kindness now
If you’re not sure what to do as your own act of kindness, here are some of the suggestions made by Kindness UK:
- Send a kind text or letter 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!
- Offer to buy a drink or some food for a homeless person
- Go through your possessions and donate to charity items you no longer use
- Make yourself known to anyone elderly or vulnerable in your community so they have somewhere to turn if they need help
- Volunteer at a nursing or care home
- Take the time to get to know your colleagues
- Spend time with someone who might be lonely
- 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)
There are plenty more to be found on the website, and we’re sure there are even more in your own imagination.
If you think your school or organisation would like to take part, have a look at Kindness UK’s case studies and suggestions here.
If you do take part, make sure to add a comment and let us know what you did and how it made you feel.
Go ahead and make someone smile.
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