More Random Acts of Kindness

I completed my adventure this week with a variety of small fun giveaway activities during a couple of business trips to London. My favourites included paying for 2 chocolate bears in and then watching from a distance as the shop assistant gave them to the next 2 visitors as a present from a stranger, and also buying some fruit for a busker. Great fun watching people's reaction.

Whilst facilitating a career development conference for a major bank last week, I gave £65 to 4 of the delegates to help others with their career development and I hope that they will publish their actions to inspire people with more ways to help others make a difference.

Keep making a difference and let me know if you would like to go on your own Random Acts of Kindness seven day adventure.

This weeks adventure

Having been underwhelmed by the response to my offer last week to give away money for a free adventure/quest, I decided to have my own adventure - starting yesterday. My quest within seven days is to put a smile on the faces of 20 people by spending exactly £65.

Attending a pre-season friendly between Leicester City (my team) and Notts County gave me the opportunity to do the following acts of kindness:

pay for the car parking space of a complete stranger (elicited a look of complete disbelief!)
treat four Notts County fans to a programme
buy a football t-shirt for a young girls birthday (I was eaves dropping a conversation in a queue)
pay for steak & kidney pies for a family of three

Total spent so far £29.20 to help 9 people. So £35.80 left to surprise 11 more people. This is fun. If you would like to join in then just post your request for £65. I am off to make a difference.

An invitation to go on a £65 Quest or Adventure

From reading some of Tom Peter's work this week I was interested to note the positive impact of the words "quest" and "adventure" rather than "task" and "project". So I thought it might be interesting to invite 10 people who read this to go on a 7 day quest or adventure (you pick which word you like best) to make a difference using £65 of my money.



Just tell me why it should be you - remember you can't spend the money on yourself - and I will send you the money on the condition that you let me know about your quest/adventure to make a difference. You don't have to tell me at this point what the money will be spent on, as you might not know yet, and after all you have 7 days for your quest. Enjoy it. Be adventurous.

Keep Posting Your Requests

I have had some great requests this week for money to help young people (see comments under my 1st June posting) and from people who are willing to put some of their time into making a difference.

Well done to Evan & Tim from Superdrug who have managed to turn 2 x £65 into £760 and have challenged 76 managers to make a difference with £10 each. I look forward to you measuring the results in due course.

Keep the requests coming, there is still a lot to give away. If you don't want to Go MAD with £65, that's okay - tell a friend who might want to make a difference.