Acts of kindness needing commitment

These ideas need commitment as people may come to depend upon you.

• Volunteer to help struggling readers at a school near you.
• Call or visit a housebound person.
• Drive someone somewhere who can’t drive.
• Volunteer at an agency that needs help (www.do-it.org.uk).
• Visit an old person or take them out for gentle walks.
• Get in touch with a local hospital and ask about patients who have no visitors that you would be willing to visit.
• Call or stop in at a nursing home, and ask if you can visit a resident with no family nearby.
• Clean graffiti from neighbourhood walls and buildings.
• Volunteer to do an odd job or two at an elderly couple’s home.
• Offer to take a friend’s child to sports practice.

Now read Simple, easy acts of kindness.

Or read One-off, occasional acts of kindness.

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