What acts of kindness have you experienced during lockdown? - £100 voucher to be won

I’m on the committee of my local WI and we have a phone rota going so that each of our 38 members receive a phone call every week. It’s been lovely keeping in touch and have had more time to chat than at some of the meetings.

Big box of baked goods and teabags from a well known Tea Room in Harrogate delivered last weekend, as a gift from my DDs. They know me so well!

The little act of kindness shown to me sounds very materialistic after reading so many of these posts, but i have been helping both my sisters out with shopping etc. I had a broken clamp on my automatic vent in the greenhouse, contacted the greenhouse company who said they would have to contact the vent supplier. I said it would be as well if i did it myself. So i e mailed them as there was no reply to telephone calls. Well, next day I got a lovely reply asking for my address so they could post it. It just really cheered me up.

My local library supplying me with books during the lockdown. Without those books I would have gone loopy, as I can't read my Kindle in the sun, so needed 'tree' books to be able to sit out in the sun, and I couldn't just sit out in the sun without doing or reading something. Needed the sun as well.

I am shielding and have been since March. I have relied on supermarket home deliveries when I can them and my medications being delivered by my regular pharmacy. I have really struggled to get painkillers as every time I ordered them from the supermarket they never arrived. In desperation one day when I was expecting my regular meds to be delivered a few days later, I rang my pharmacy asking if they could include some with my next delivery. The lady at the pharmacy organised for me to get some that same day, I was so touched that they delivered them specially to me when they must be so busy. So thank you very much Ormskirk Pharmacy, I really appreciate it x

Hate to be negative but have not experienced any acts of kindness. We are both 67 and continue to do our own shopping. Perhaps if we were older someone might have offered to help. It's fine, we are getting by.

I have been regularly going to meetings in a local church before the lock down and a young girl befriended me there.

She now calls me every week to ask if I need any shopping as I'm in the vulnerable category. She shops for me and others and I think it's a very thoughtful and kind thing for her to do and much appreciated.

I am looking after my terminally ill mother and shielding at home. My daughter had a mental break down and is in hospital where we cannot visit. To top it all my cooker stopped working. I tried everywhere to get another one that I could afford but to no avail. My friend calls at least once a week to check up on us and she got me in touch with a charity, the kidney care fund, who sent a grant to me so that I could put it towards a new one. The kindness of my friend and the kidney care fund came at a time I was ready to give up and was feeling life was hopeless. In effect they were my light in the dark.

I received a handbag charm in the post from an ex colleague yesterday out of the blue, just because.
Old school friends have been in touch offering to check on and shop for my parents as they know I’m 100 miles away.
This awful situation is truly bringing out the best in most people. I hope it continues and we don’t go back to our insular lives.

Very small thing but it made such a difference to our peace of mind and DH’s comfort.

Many years ago, DH was advised by his GP to take 4 paracetamol a day and added them to DH’s prescription. We said. “Don’t do that. We’ll buy our own. Don’t use NHS funds.”

Come lockdown and shielding (both of us) could not get any. Thought it might be short term. Who knew.

Neighbour Jon offered to get some for us. When we realised the shielding was going to last, we asked our GP to add them back to the prescription.

Jon said he would still get us some while doing his weekly shop. Only a few but just in case there is a hiccup with the prescription we’ll have a few.

And it’s on top of a long day. He works from 7.30 until 6 every day but still finds time to bring us a packet of paracetamol every Wednesday.

And we have a socially distanced chat which also helps my morale.

Thank you, Jon

Our across the road neighbour who in 8 years we have only passed pleasantries with couldn't get flour and asked to borrow some - which I did without thinking. When she managed to get some herself the following week she baked us the most beautiful banana loaf cake - left it still warm on the doorstep - what a kind thing to do! She also now leaves eggs from her chickens on a weekly basis for our weekend breakfast. We have talked more in the last weeks than we have in years previous and fully intend to have cuppa's and catch ups when this is all over!

There are so many kind people leaving spare books in boxes on their garden walls for people to collect

I put a note through an elderly neighbours door with my mobile number on and asked her to let me know if she needed anything or wanted any shopping fetching etc. She was really touched and texted me thanking me for my kindness. I have offered to get shopping for other people too. It's not much but I am also in the clinically vulnerable category so am limited a bit in what I can offer.

Yes. During lockdown I was told I had Cancer of the throat & will need a moulded mask & 6 weeks, 5 days a week Radiation. Later I received The Treat Bag which is full of useful goodies for those being treated with cancer. Donated by firms arriving on my doorstep as a complete surprise with everything from a warm scarf to lip balm, mouth wash, pillow sleep spray etc. It made me feel loved!

There is a bus once an hour to my nearest shopping centre, 3 miles away, with Aldi and a post office. Rather than ask my husband to drive me there and sit waiting in the car, I have used the bus and am usually the only passenger. I wear a mask while on board (as requested) and using my bus pass card is contactless. The driver now knows me and stops right at the end of my avenue, which is between the official bus stops. I'd better say no more, in case I get this lovely man into trouble!

I tripped up on my way home after my walk on April 29th, I was picked by lovely neighbours. I sustained a broken wrist and two black eyes! My local minor injuries put a temporary plaster on and 10 days later the lovely neighbour drove me to the fracture clinic in her soft top car with the roof down, probably defying regulations, but I felt safe! I had a permanent plaster put on there. She is taking me back in her car next week when hopefully the plaster will come off. Really kind.

There have been so many lovely acts of kindness in my local area. People offering to collect prescriptions, and go shopping for others. Lots of people are leaving books, and items out for others to take as they wander by on their daily exercise.
One household have even created a lovely nature garden that is gated so safe for passers by, but accessible to view from the path. They have built a pond during lockdown, with lots of tadpoles, and now many froglets! They’ve busily built bug hotels, and homes for hedgehogs too. They even put out teddy bears enjoying different activities each day, (which I can tell you is a treat for all as we walk by, and not just the children being home schooled!) ?

There have been so many lovegly acts of kindness in my local area. People offering to collect prescriptions, and go shopping for others. Lots of people are leaving books, and items out for others to take as they wander by on their daily exercise.
One household have even created a lovely nature garden that is gated so safe for passers by, but accessible to view from the path. They have built a pond during lockdown, with lots of tadpoles, and now many froglets! They’ve busily built bug hotels, and homes for hedgehogs too. They even put out teddy bears enjoying different activities each day, (which I can tell you is a treat for all as we walk by, and not just the children being home schooled!) ?

We live in a block of 9 flats and most of the neighbours have been kind to each other. Myself and our lovely next-door-neighbour are both considered highly vulnerable and need to be shielded, so my better half has done all the shopping for us, our neighbour (+ fresh produce for her guinea pigs) and got a few bits (including much-needed pet food) for an elderly customer of theirs. Other examples are seemingly small acts of kindness but each meaningful:

I won a Product of the Year goodie bag and we shared the contents with our lovely neighbour and gave the Vape Kit and refills to the young couple next door as they had been unable to get their usual one and had started smoking again so this was a big help + he got them some tomato ketchup and that cheered their 2 kids up. There were a few bits we couldn't use or didn't need so the feminine hygiene products went to an organisation helping women in 'period poverty' and I have a bag of 4 items for a baby we will give to someone who needs it.

The young couple gave him a pack of hot dog rolls when he couldn't get any and fancied hot dogs.

We have baked several times, mainly banana bread & lemon drizzle cake and each time we divided it as 2/3 for us and 1/3 for our neighbour as she has the same food allergy as me so she knows our home baking is safe for her to eat and enjoyed the treats. The other young couple have offered to include things in their online order if anyone needs anything.

Another couple left a loo roll and nice note on everyone's doorstep when supermarkets had been emptied and they'd had an online order delivery so shared (we were OK for loo rolls but appreciated the gesture. We have both tried to offer online support to a few people who are struggling at the moment.

And lastly, my aunt died a week ago and though funeral (in 2 weeks time) is limited to 10 they did reply to my email and said it would be OK to sit in the car and even stand next to the car to watch the car come in and that they were offering their video streaming service free of charge to help grieving families who would like to see and hear the service. We know they are very sadly busy at the moment and it meant a lot to have such a personal response, kind words and to feel my aunt was in good hands, as such. Not sure if my uncle and cousin will be OK about video yet - will message them tomorrow. Seems there are plenty of acts of kindness to balance out some of the less than savoury behaviour of a minority.

My sister Mary had a stroke a few days before lockdown. We were unable to visit her and she was to confused to deal with her mobile. A very young health care assistant helped her answer facetime calls. It was so kind and helped everyone get through those awful weeks.

I've been doing my elderly neighbours and my own 77 year old mothers shopping and collecting medication for them both. My neighbour sadly doesn't have family nearby to help her,so i couldn't see her struggle. Same as my own mum,they are both so grateful,but in my eyes,i'm not really doing anything special,it's times like these,that i can give back. I'd like to think that if i were struggling somehow,that someone would help me. Being registered disabled myself with Fibromyalgia,i just wish sometimes,i could do more,but sadly i'm limited myself.

Should have added we were shielding so not supposed to go outside the front door.

We put an order in with our local butcher, which meant a bit of a chat, like you do, during which I evidently must have said that we were managing, but I couldn’t get any milk. (It was rather weighing on my mind). The meat order arrived the next day with a two litre bottle of Tesco milk in it. The fact they’d gone out of their way to buy it meant a lot.

It is certainly helpful to give hope and a sense of anticipation to others and with this in mind my daughter and I have grown almost 100 tomato plants from seed, grown them on to strong plants and given them away to anyone who would like to watch them flower and provide a crop of gardeners delight tomatoes.

A neighbour, whom I know slightly, asked how DH was recently. She knew he had just finished chemo. I was just taking delivery of some shopping and joked that the only thing unavailable was a jar of Bovril, as it was one of the few things DH fancied drinking.
She knocked a couple of hours later with two jars she had sourced from a small shop, and wouldn’t accept payment.
Such a kind gesture.