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Random Acts of Kindness
Next week we'd like to conduct a radio experiment involving you lot. As the word 'experiment' suggests, it may go wrong...but that's okay we'll just blame you. As it's the week before Christmas, we really want you to carry out a random act of kindness ON THE RADIO.
So that could mean absolutely anything that's sweet and scrumptious - we just have to be able to hear it.
We appreciate that conducting such an act on the radio may embarass you somewhat; we appreciate it could go horribly wrong - the person to whom you are being kind may think you are either
a) Dom Jolly
b) a bit of a perv
c) are about to rob them
but look it surely will be of consolation to know that we appreciate what you are going throug in the interests of potentially award-winning radio.
I feel I ought to suggest the kind of things that you could do - invite your unknown next door neighbour round for Christmas dinner, give up your seat on the bus, give a bunch of flowers to the lady behind the counter in the chippie/newsagents, tell the bloke who works at the local petrol station he's lost weight and does he fancy a drink - but I don't want to limit your imagination. Remember - your imagination is your oyster.
The way to get it on the radio is the low-tec easy bit. Simply hold your mobile phone to your mouth while you're doing it so we can hear, live. Or record the whole episode on your mobile phone and send it to us via email: victoria@bbc.co.uk
Get thinking ..and prepare yourself for Randon Acts of Kindness Morning between 9 and 12 one day next week.
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS-
my friend elaine and i regularly meet for coffee at COSTA COFFEE so when we heard about this random act of kindness thing we went to THORNTONS and bought a small box of chocolates to give to whoever served us in COSTA that day. it was only a very small box containing two chocolates but we thought it would be a nice gesture
we gave the small box to the girl who served us and she looked at both us and the box with suspicion , she said
"is there anything in the box",
i replied "it just a small gift to say thankyou for the nice coffee that we have here"
she replied "have they been tampered with"
we then gave up , smiled and took our coffee.
the girl continued to look at us with suspicion and by the time we left still had not even opened the box , even though the shop was quiet.
we talked about it later and came to the conclusion that what had happened was simply a reflection of todays society.
we still get our coffee there but it was weeks before this girl could look me in the face and smile
regards
andrew
There are 7 million of us who do a act of kindness everyday of the week 24/7. We are those Carers who care for a loved one who is either terminally ill or disabled etc., I care for my Husband even though I am fighting Breast cancer.
Carers save the tax payer £57 Billion pounds a year....many lose their homes because they have to give up work to care for a loved one and then can't afford to pay their mortgage.
Valerie.
There are 7 million of us who do a act of kindness everyday of the week 24/7. We are those Carers who care for a loved one who is either terminally ill or disabled etc., I care for my Husband even though I am fighting Breast cancer.
Carers save the tax payer £57 Billion pounds a year....many lose their homes because they have to give up work to care for a loved one and then can't afford to pay their mortgage.
What about the sicknote culture of the police. At anyone time more than one in 5 of the poice are off "sick".
When the police hit hippies over the head with truncheons at demos, there's always more police "injured" than hippies.
How come? Repetitive Strain Injury?
What about the very generous and early pensions that the rest of us have to pay for whilst working into our 70s.
i'm in a make up community online, and there are different boards on the forum - and there are hundreds of posts that start with "RAOK" - random act of kindness. people have spare items lying around, things they no longer use or need, and are happy to send to people for free.
people who donate their old unwanted things to charity shops (my mum works in a charity shop as a volunteer) are not always made up of people who want to get rid of old junk and make space for new stuff - some genuinely want to give what they can, to make a difference.
on a side note - lets all wish my mum a happy birthday for friday - she is the RAOK-est person i know, she is made up 100% of nice, and in always sponteneously doing random nice things to help anyone and everyone around her. happy birthday mum!
Wow, I'm well into this sort of thing and am really keen to hear how the "experiment" goes!
For some time now my family and I have been doing this sort of stuff on a regular basis and has included stuff like buying total strangers coffee in Starbuck's, giving good tips in restaurants, giving out free chocolate at Easter as well as last christmas giving out stamps to some of our neighbours. For us it's about trying to show people that they matter more for who they are than what "value" society puts on them based on their income, size of car, house etc.
Ok so I must come clean and say that there's a bigger picture here for us in that we are followers of jesus and so part of it is about showing god's love in a practical way, the church has done too much talking and not enough "doing" however having said that we don't do any of it to persuade people to come to church or become a Christian, we simply do it because we believe that it's the sort of thing we should do anyway as people who believe in a God of lavish generosity, kindness and self-sacrificing service.
So as I say I'll be very interested to hear how it goes, can't wait!!
Flipper on a bike, can we have a little more news and sport from Radio 5 live, and less of this womens magazine tosh, Victoria Barbyshire's morning phone in has turned into the radio equivalent of "People's Friend".
It was an act of kindness that I had not said so sooner.
I heard the item about Acts of Kindness and I was wondering if you and maybe your colleagues would pledge to do something 1600+ people throughout the UK do...
Would you agree to invite an International Student into your home for a weekend, just once or twice a year. Every week students studying in Britain away from their home countries take up the opportunity to really experience the best about the British people and at the same time make good friends.
We have around 400 students having Christmas with our hosts this year. We don't ask you to do anything different just do it with the equivalent of a family member with you.
HOST UK is a charity that has been running for 20 years but with the loss of funding from the British Council our only hope of survival is to greatly increase the number of hosts we have.
So one act of kindness from you (and/or your team) will not only benefit a lucky student but also help a very caring organisation.
I heard the item about Acts of Kindness and I was wondering if you and maybe your colleagues would pledge to do something 1600+ people throughout the UK do...
Would you agree to invite an International Student into your home for a weekend, just once or twice a year. Every week students studying in Britain away from their home countries take up the opportunity to really experience the best about the British people and at the same time make good friends.
We have around 400 students having Christmas with our hosts this year. We don't ask you to do anything different just do it with the equivalent of a family member with you.
HOST UK is a charity that has been running for 20 years but with the loss of funding from the British Council our only hope of survival is to greatly increase the number of hosts we have.
So one act of kindness from you (and/or your team) will not only benefit a lucky student but also help a very caring organisation.
There are 7 million of us who do a act of kindness everyday of the week 24/7. We are those Carers who care for a loved one who is either terminally ill or disabled etc., I care for my Husband even though I am fighting Breast Cancer.
Carers save the tax payer £57 Billion pounds a year....many lose their homes because they have to give up work to care for a loved one and then they can't afford to pay their mortgage.
Many of us don't know what a holiday is, I have not had one for 18yrs.
Valerie.
I guess I would like to nominate my partner Karen for a mention on this topic. She plays one of these huge online games, where you keep virtual pets, and buy and sell items.
I found out a few days ago, that she has been giving away, as gifts, various items from her virtual "shop" to anyone whos details she can find on the various posts and trading boards. She has set up an annonymous account. And for the 24 days up to Christmas is giving away 50 items per day. Some of these are quite "valuable" in the game, and the whole business is costing her a lot of "points".
When I asked her why, she just commented on "How nice it made her feel, to do something like that, that people did not expect"
She has been quite suprised by how many people have now given her items, and many thousands of "points" for her to carry on giving away random gifts for the whole of the month.
It sems to me that that basicly people are good and generous by nature, and its only our shyness , emarassment, and fear of ridicule that stops all of us doing something similar.
Knowing karen as I do, I know there is absolutely no way, she would ever approach a "stranger" let alone offer them gifts, but in the virtual world you can be who you want to be, and no one need ever know who youare.
A very happy Christmas to all.
Andrew.
I guess I would like to nominate my partner Karen for a mention on this topic. She plays one of these huge online games, where you keep virtual pets, and buy and sell items.
I found out a few days ago, that she has been giving away, as gifts, various items from her virtual "shop" to anyone whos details she can find on the various posts and trading boards. She has set up an annonymous account. And for the 24 days up to Christmas is giving away 50 items per day. Some of these are quite "valuable" in the game, and the whole business is costing her a lot of "points".
When I asked her why, she just commented on "How nice it made her feel, to do something like that, that people did not expect"
She has been quite suprised by how many people have now given her items, and many thousands of "points" for her to carry on giving away random gifts for the whole of the month.
It sems to me that basicly people are good and generous by nature, and its only our shyness , emarassment, and fear of ridicule that stops all of us doing something similar.
Knowing karen as I do, I know there is absolutely no way, she would ever approach a "stranger" let alone offer them gifts, but in the virtual world you can be who you want to be, and no one need ever know who youare.
A very happy Christmas to all.
Andrew.
I'm giving blood (for the 35th time,since 1991) on thursday evening. Does this come under the tittle of a random act of kindness
My RAOK is that I've made my best friedn d a christmas cake. I'll give it to her on Sunday. She's working full time and didn't have time to make one. I've also made one for my uncle and will give it to him this lunch time.
I'm a working mum but love christmas and always find the time to make everything at Christmas
am female,74 & have listened to Radio 5 Live for some years for football but have enjoyed fantastic discussions on many many subjects but this morning on Victoria's show, THE BIRTH OF BABY JACOB had me in tears like thousands of others & not least because a close member of my family (40) is desperate to have a child & has last babies in the womb after IVF. I am hoping that my listening to the birth of Jacob is a happy omen in my family. REALLY ENJOY ALL THE MANY MANY DISCUSSIONS OF SO MANY SUBJECTS. Keep up your standards.