Burntwood care home residents mark World Kindness DayHC-One’s Chaseview Care Home in Burntwood, Staffordshire, is celebrating World Kindness Day on November 13, 2024, by highlighting and appreciating the good deeds care colleagues do to spread positivity and kindness to others through simple acts of kindness. 

Residents at HC-One’s Chaseview Care Home are celebrating World Kindness Day by discussing what kindness means to them. Residents discussed with each other what kindness personally means to them and wrote their statements down on a piece of paper. 

When asked what kindness means to him, resident Anthony Robbins, aged 85, who lives at HC-One’s Chaseview Care Home, said: 

“Kindness to me is being given a cup of coffee in the morning with a nice smile from someone who cares.”

Resident Gloria Farnell, aged 97, who lives at HC-One’s Chaseview Care Home, stated:

“My father always used to say good manners is having consideration for other people.”

Resident June Sheasby, aged 82, who lives at HC-One’s Chaseview Care Home, commented:

“Being kind means doing things for other automatically without expecting something in return.”