Ham & High, Pancake Day 2010
22 Feb
Revellers in Leicester Square enjoyed more than 1,000 free pancakes given out by West Hampstead’s Kindness Offensive on Tuesday in spite of the pouring rain.
Two London Wasps Rugby Players Paul Sackey and Joe Simpson showed up to help spead the kindness and the offensive also gave away lots of children’s toys.
David Goodfellow, co-founder of [...]
Pancake Day Blogs, 2010
22 Feb
Below are some blogs about TKO and our Pancake Day extravaganza.
http://blog.firebox.com/2010/02/spread-a-little-love.html
http://www.demotix.com/news/251895/kindness-offensive-offer-free-pancakes-eds-diner-london
http://www.etsy.com/storque/handmade-life/random-acts-of-kindness-week-with-heidi-burton-7105/
http://poorbenjaminsalmanac.com/?p=27
Demotix – TKO Pancake Day
19 Feb
The Kindness Offensive take over Ed’s Diner in Rupert street, near Leicester Square, offering free pancakes, teas, and coffees on pancake day. London, United Kingdom, 16/02/2010.
The Kindness Offensive served free pancakes, teas and coffees to at lest one thousand people throughout the course of the morning from 8am until 11:45am at Ed’s Diner on Rupert [...]
Sky News
19 Feb
Below are two links to Sky Sports News, where famous Rugby player, Paul Sackey, is interviewed at a Kindness Offensive event, on Pancake Day.
http://www.skysports.com/video/clips/0,23791,17137_5956116,00.html
http://www.skysports.com/opinion/story/0,25212,16730_5956024,00.html
Psychologies: The Life Guide
12 Jan
In Psychologies magazines supplement, ‘The Life Guide’, The Kindness Offensive are listed as a group to join for those looking to spread a little happiness in 2010.
The Life Guide
1) For inspiration, read Danny Wallace’s ‘Random Acts of Kindness: 365 Ways To Make The World A Nicer Place’ (Ebury).
2) Make someone’s morning – give up your [...]
La Presse – Montreal’s No.1 paper
04 Jan
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/international/europe/200912/31/01-935264-offensive-bonte-a-londres.php
(David Goodfellow and James Hunters, two of the co-founders of TKO, “It’s a great way to meet people and it’s more rewarding than staying at home”, says the first one.)
(London) To provide tons of food for poor people, to offer thousands of hampers for Christmas : is that a job for charities? Not for three [...]
OGGI – (Italy’s biggest Magazine)
03 Dec
Be Kind! You will Get a medal
There are people that fight for a very rare, but essential, value.
By Serena Viviani
Milan, November 2009
Translated by Maddalena Ghezzi
A boy is looking at his map of London disorientated. He got lost! People don’t care about him. Finally a man asks him: “Do you need help?”. The boy smiles. [...]
Sunday Times – The feelgood factor
30 Nov
The feelgood factor: The Kindness Offensive
Help the homeless, give free hugs or simply be nice — a wave of generosity is sweeping the country
Cargo nightclub, Shoreditch, Saturday night. The MC on stage is wearing stretchy leggings, a tiny camisole, and holding a mike. “I turned 40, you know…” Dance, dance. Well, she looks 15. “And [...]
El País – Prizes for Everyday Kindness
03 Sep
El País
Prizes for Everyday Kindness in the City of London
A non-government initiative recognizes spontaneous good deeds carried out by the public.
A man unfolds a giant map and pulls a face which shows he is not from the area. He looks nervously from side to side until somebody comes to his [...]
Blogs about The Kindness Offensive
03 Sep
Below are links to some blogs about ‘The Everyday Kindness Awards’, enjoy!
http://selenachan.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/random-acts-of-kindness-happening-in-london/
http://wildclips.blogspot.com/2009/09/everyday-kindness-awards.html
http://daklife.blogspot.com/
http://www.playmyfootball.com/2009/09/everyday-kindness-awards.html
http://www.makingchangenow.com/wordpress/?p=416
http://audioboo.fm/boos/55440-christian-steel-talks-about-the-everyday-kindness-awards
http://audioboo.fm/boos/55726-tom-taking-part-in-the-kindness-offensive-s-everyday-kindness-awards
http://disruptive-play.near-time.net/
Blogs from November 2009, about TKO
http://www.sidewaysnews.com/your-life/david-goodfellows-kindness-offensive
http://www.timeisloveblog.com/2009/10/28/the-kindness-offensive/
Blogs from December 2009, about TKO
http://www.learnpurple.com/blog/engagement/random-acts-of-kindness
The Sun – Cool to be Kind
24 Aug
ARMED with smiles, balloons and confetti cannons, they have launched a charity crusade on Britain’s streets. Calling themselves The Kindness Offensive, these four ordinary blokes are determined to do good in the world.
In just over a year Londoners David Goodfellow, 30, James Hunter, 23, Benny Crane, 26, and Christian Steel, 33, have distributed 25 tons [...]
The London Paper
19 Aug
A group of four guys will be handing out rewards to people who show random acts of kindness this weekend at Whiteleys shopping centre in Bayswater and the South Bank.
HELP a stranger and you could find yourself rewarded this weekend.
Members of The Kindness Offensive are surprising anyone who helps one of their actors [...]
METRO – Acts of kindness on streets rewarded
19 Aug
(A surprised Katie Moore, 23, (centre) enjoys an impromptu ‘party’ thrown for her by The Kindness Offensive on London’s Southbank)
Help a stranger and you could find yourself rewarded this weekend – as one woman found out after she gave directions to a lost tourist.
The man was actually just pretending to be lost at the South [...]
‘The Everyday Kindness Awards’
30 Jul
The Kindness Offensive has just finished staging ‘The Everyday Kindness Awards’. Rewarding unsuspecting members of the public for their acts of everyday kindness. The Kindness Awards ran for three consecutive days, in secret locations across London, on the 14th, 15th & 16th of August 2009.
TKO organized kindness flash-mobs across the Capital, to celebrate the often [...]
Ham & High Newspaper
26 Feb
A good time was had by all on Shrove Tuesday, with West Hamsptead taking centre stage. Hampstead’s creperie was as popular as ever, but it was NW6 where the real action was.
A pancake run was held in Elephant Walk, while a locally-based charity cooked up tens of thousands of pancakes to feed the capital.
The group [...]
Pancake Day blogs
24 Feb
For The Kindness Offensive, Shrove Tuesday provided a great reason to hand out thousands of free pancakes to anyone and everyone, at Ed’s Diner. Altogether The Kindness Offensive gave away over half a million pancakes to charities such as Great Ormond Street hospital and Help the Aged as well as members of the public.
Other people talking about the day:
http://laurenvanderkar.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/pancake-day/
http://hayleydunlop.blogspot.com/2009/02/shrove-boozeday.html
http://www.boringstudent.com/total-bs/post/free-pancake-craziness-hits-leicester-square
Free Pancake, Coffee and Teas
17 Feb
We are putting on another huge Random Act of Kindness and EVERYONE is invited!
Between 8.00am and 1.00pm on Tuesday 24th February (Pancake Day) we will be giving away FREE pancakes with FREE teas & coffees to all comers at Ed’s Diner on Rupert’s St just off of Leicester Square.
Everyone is welcome to come along so [...]
Channel 4 Project Battlefront
14 Feb
Tom Robbins from The Do-Gooder Army spent a day with The Kindness Offensive. Here’s his video:
http://www.vimeo.com/3118527The Sunday Times
28 Dec
It is when times are tough that you often see someone’s true nature. This Christmas, when times are tougher than they have been for years, I think we’re seeing what most of us would call the “best of British”.
All over the country we are hearing stories of charities being inundated with volunteers who want to [...]
The Independent newspaper pages 10 & 11
22 Dec
What’s wrong with doing good? Four housemates decided it was time to forget recession, cast off the gloom and start to make a difference
Behind the pebble-dashed walls of the little cottage in north London lies a modern-day Santa’s grotto: 35 tonnes of toys and food, stacked to the rafters.
Teetering towers of goods cover the floor [...]
The Big Issue Magazine
20 Dec
A gleaming white Routemaster bus will be making its way around London this week, laden with 3,500 Christmas hampers which will be handed out free to passers by.
The scheme comes courtesy of The Kindness Offensive — three friends from north London who persuade companies to donate their products to the initiative. Their aim? “To inspire [...]
BBC News Item
19 Nov
The Kindness Offensive appears on the News giving away 25 tonnes of free food worth £250,000 ($500,000) to the hungry and homeless of London.
BBC 94.9FM
19 Nov
The Kindness Offensive (TKO) get interviewed on the radio about their latest ‘phone whisper’ that saw them give away over £200,000 ($400,000) worth of food to the homeless and hungry of London, England.
Big Issue magazine
19 Oct
On a small backstreet is a house exploding with tinned corn. Twenty five tonnes of it to be exact. It’s wedged behind the sofa, groaning on the kitchen table, trapped under a tarpaulin in the garden — along with thousands of nappies, toothpaste, tinned fruit and cereal bars.
Its presence is all down to the gumption [...]
Camden New Journal newspaper
09 Oct
The next time you see any of these three men, lean over and blow them a kiss, buy them a coffee or just give them a smile.
That’s because the West Hampstead trio launched a goodwill campaign last week called the Kindness Offensive that saw them give away 25 tonnes of food – donated by an [...]
Ham & High newspaper
09 Oct
WEST End Lane was brought to a standstill last week as 25 tonnes of food were delivered to just one house.
It was all part of a scheme cooked up by the Kindness Offensive, an organisation that arranges for large companies to donate food to needy food kitchens.
The anonymous company donated an estimated £200,000 worth of [...]
BBC News Online
07 Oct
A group of friends has persuaded firms to donate 25 tonnes of food, which they then passed on to community groups.
Calling themselves the Kindness Offensive, the north London-based group spent a day handing out goods such as sweetcorn, fajitas and pancake mix.
Member James Hunter said: “It really makes us smile helping people.”
Doreen Gordon, from [...]
