What will your #randomactofkindness be?

Here at Trafford North foodbank we’re getting ourselves ready for Monday 17th February, which is Random Acts of Kindness Day: a day dedicated to kindness at home, work, and school.

People all over Trafford North are being kind to one another all the time – sometimes in small ways, but often in unimaginably big ones.

For example, last year just days before Christmas, our volunteers were contacted by a woman who’d just arrived home from hospital. She’d been sent there for several days by her boyfriend, and was very badly injured; when she got home, every single one of her possessions was gone. Her abusive ex had taken everything to the tip. Every childhood memento, every item of clothing, every furnishing – she didn’t have a single teaspoon. Just the clothes she’d left in and a pair of hospital flip flops.

We are proud to be able to tell you that our community – your community – in Trafford quickly pulled together to find her what she needed. Charity shops and amazing organisations like the Little Green Sock Project dug out household appliances and clothing from their back rooms and warehouses, and local businesses provided yet more clothing and new underwear.

But individual tragedy strikes more often than any of us would like, and every single street in Trafford has at one time housed someone who needs help like this.

You don’t need to be a “Raktivist” (Random Acts of Kindness Activist) to make a difference: just one kind thing can make a huge difference. In this case, it could be one extra item in your shopping basket for the donation bin past the tills – one small JustGiving donation, or a quick email promising to come and label some donations for us.

We’d like your random act of kindness to be a donation to our foodbank – of course we would! But if you, like so many of our clients, are short of cash this month then please consider checking in on a friend you haven’t seen in a while, an elderly neighbour, or even just saying thank you to your bus driver.

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