Sarah Browning has joined us for this online meetup to explore what kindness looks like, why it matters and how we can benefit from seeing more of it.
The more you notice acts of kindness around you, the more you will see. This creates a virtuous circle of positivity, which shapes individuals, businesses and communities:
– Seeing kindness around them inspires people to feel more positive and hopeful.
– When individuals feel more positive they are better able to face challenges and find solutions.
– When people see and value kindness in each other, connection and collaboration increases.
About our speaker
Sarah Browning is a kindness cheerleader and communicator and founded the Time for Kindness programme in 2021. The programme focuses on sharing stories of kindness, inspiring hope and positivity, and teaching people how to build on noticing kindness more often.
Well welcome to um this session U from ethical ready let me just um take you to um inory slide so this is Meetup which is open to everyone um and it’s about the power and connection of kindness and we are very delighted absolutely delighted to have Sarah um
Joining us today Sarah Browning from browning York um and Sarah is um is a specialist in Communications um her mission is to highlight kindness that already exists in the world and of course simple acts of kindness make you feel positive about yourself and others whether it’s in a
Personal set setting or in a business setting Sarah also runs workshops around this topic for organizations and individuals so that they can actually learn and apply um the findings to their work culture so their kind of and have your places to work and we know of course if those places are enjoyable uh
And people enjoy the work uh and other people around them company of other people around them then they’re also actually more productive so there’s nothing to lose here really in terms of applying what you learn both in your personal life uh and um in your business organization uh one of the things that
Sarah did actually say to me which I found interesting and I’m Keen to learn more is that kindness of course is not the same thing as being nice or being agreeable so I’m really Keen to learn a little bit more about that and also some
Of the hints and tips that she will have around applying um the the key tips from our Workshop uh in our everyday lives uh as well so a little bit just a little bit in terms of introduction about what ethical reading is we are not for-profit social Enterprise we going since about
2018 and our mission is really to help Ed ethics into the way we do business uh with a focus on making reading a better place both to live and to work we want to do this by inspiring people inside organizations and more broadly in society that they can make more ethical
Decisions um we want to provide tools through education so they can do that uh and we want to work with others um to make this happen certainly working together with other organizations working people like Sarah uh and collaborating we can believe we believe we can achieve these ends um sooner and
Quicker we run these events and share uh resources around them um and in due course we hope that you know what we do here we can also spread further a Feld and we’re already in discussions with other places around how we can collaborate and take the message um to other locations and regions
We couldn’t do what we do without support from our um business uh Partners so this is just a spattering of some of the organizations that suppor us and uh enable uh us to do what we do so without further Ado I’m going to now uh stop sharing the screen and hand over to
Sarah thank you for that that intro um git so I’m Sarah Browning my pronoun is she her um and I’m a kindness cheerleader and communicator and what that means is that um I am a Communications professional by training so I work um with my clients um to help them to communicate effectively
And strategically and and and connect with their audiences and um I also run the time for kindness program and this is something that I set up oh Cy nearly three years or just over three years ago now um late 2020 at that time when I think we were
All just thinking what what on Earth just happened what am I doing um and as part of that I got to thinking about what what was important to me um and I realized that kindness is important to me and more than that I believe there is
Lots of kindness in the world already we just don’t talk about it enough yet and so I am on a mission to change that um and to encourage us all to talk about kindness to talk about um you know what is there already in the world um now I
Clearly there is also some awful stuff that’s going on um and I am not in any way suggesting that we ignore that but what I think we do need to do is rebalance the narrative we have about our world and ourselves within it hence um the time for kindness program um and
The program um is is essentially made up of three strands one is about sharing stories of everyday kindness so I have a website we have social media where you can go and um have a look um at those stories those everyday stories we are sharing one or two a day um and getting
A constant stream of them coming in from people so so that’s fantastic to see um we also we have a network of voluntary kindness ambassadors where we encourage others to see the kindness around them in the world and talk about it and then the third strand is running workshops
And talks um to teach people the habits to notice kindness um because I appreciate that for some people it comes more easily than others um and on some days it’s easier than others so if you have some tools and tips in your your toolbox as it were um then you can
Choose to use that and and to look for what’s around you um and I and what you will find and what I am finding what people are telling me they’re finding is that once you start to notice kindness it becomes a virtuous circle and you see more and
More um and um the reason that’s important is that it gives you personally you individually a um a boost to positivity and hope and then if we all feel that way individually it makes us stronger collectively because we are more resilient we’re more positive more more hopeful we connect with each other
More um and hence um you know again it’s a virtuous uh cycle so what I’m going to run through with you today um is a shortened version of the workshops um that that I usually run so forgive me if um there are some details that that we
Today don’t have the time to go into in more detail but I’m more than happy to to have a chat with other people or or to follow up later if there are things that we don’t don’t have time to cover today I’m also conscious that um you
Don’t need me droning on at you um for a long period of time so we will have two breakout groups for you to um have your your chance to have a say as well so what we’re going to talk about today um I uh will talk about um a few
Definitions of kindness so that we know what we’re talking about um and indeed what we’re not talking about um a little bit about why kindness matters um and I shall share um a few research stats and so on with you there um and then we’ll move on to thinking about what does
Kindness look like in practice um and some tips for noticing kindness and those bottom two bullet points are the points where we will have breakout um session um breakout rooms and and you can um have have chats amongst yourselves as well so um how would you define kindness
Now um that’s not a trick question um I uh you will find if you research definitions of kindness which I have that there isn’t a single um definition so um I just wondered whether one or two of you I invite you to kind of come off
Mute and just give us your thoughts on how you would define kindness don’t be shy it’s not a trick question um think Brothers sorry say this again thinking of others thinking of others yeah that’s a great one and thank you for getting the ball rolling as well anyone else being honest being honest
Fantastic great I say being thoughtful I took on board what GT said is not necessarily about being nice but I think being thoughtful for me yeah sure fantastic thank you I think that’s that’s quite important is isn’t is thoughtful of the other person’s feelings yeah so it’s being nice but in
A kind way which is pretty much you know doing the right thing and always thinking putting yourself in other people’s shoes and thinking would I like that to be said or done to me before you actually do it then say it to others sure that’s a great summary I think yeah
Great it’s almost as if James you have seen my slides okay so that’s brilliant thank you everybody and thank you for for pitching in your thoughts as I said genuinely not question there are lots of definitions but there’s a few here that I have just picked out to to share with
You so the mental health Foundation Define it as choosing to do something that helps others or yourself motivated by genuine warm feelings we also have this definition um this is from Claudia Hammond she’s a broadcaster she’s also a researcher um at the Sussex Center for research on kindness down at the University of
Sussex I believe her radio program is on Radio 4 she got a book out at the moment about the keys to kindness and she describes it as the act of doing something with the intention of benefiting someone else um and the third one just to show with you today um this
Is Ronda Ross who is the singer Diana Ross’s daughter um and is indeed a singer herself and an actress um and I was listening to her on a podcast and she talked about it as an act to be helpful within the boundaries of some of how someone wants to be helped and
That’s to to your point James of being thoughtful of the other person as well so as you see you know they are there isn’t a single definition but there are um some common elements so kindness is active it’s about doing something it’s about choice and intention as well um
And um it is about having a positive impact and that is either on someone else or it might be on yourself you know kindness to self is a thing as well and is also important um to bear in mind um in terms of things that it isn’t um it’s
Not the same as being nice um nothing wrong with being nice but that tends to be a little bit more or of a surface level um and you can be kind and have difficult conversations you know there are ways to for example in a in a work
Um situation if you’ve got somebody in your team who’s perhaps not um you know delivering you know it isn’t kind to let them continue to fail and it’s not kind to the people around them it be a difficult conversation but there are ways to do it um to to bring in kindness
And the way you can do that is to bring in as we’ve said some of the kind of thought thoughtfulness intention um and and um how to have it in a a positive way okay so why does it matter um now there is it is exciting for me um and
Hopefully for you as as you’ve come along today and have an interest in this area um there’s a growing body of academic research into kindness and why it matters um you know I think there are lots of us who feel instinctively that it’s important and it matters but it is
Also nice to have some of that kind of backup if you like of of of that research um and I’ve just again pulled out a few to share with you today now you’ll have to excuse me because I’m not a research myself so I will be H to look
At my notes to read these to you because I’ve not necessarily committed them to Memory but in terms of what it matters it because it increases certain things and it decreases others so um kindness increases things like oxytocin and serotonin and they are often known as the happy hormones um and they are
Linked to the decrease in blood pressure um in the following way so a researcher called Dr David um Hamilton um did some research that showed that kindness creates a kind of emotional warmth he describes it as which which releases um these these hormones and um oxytocin in particular then causes a chain reaction
To release another chemical called nitric oxide and that dilates blood vessels and hence it has that not just that um emotional positiv impact but it has a physical um impact on you as well um there was another research called Christine Carter um at the University of California in Barkley um and she found
In a study that um about half her participants said that they felt stronger and more energetic after doing something kind for someone else the increase in job applicants comes um from a study uh done by the Born This Way Foundation um and they’re all about mental health in young uh younger people
Um and they did um a survey with some uh young people between the ages of 18 and 29 and they found that um 77% of those respondents were more likely to apply for a job posting that listed kindness as one of the values um of the organization and I think we’ve probably
All seen there are increasing numbers of of of organizations that talk about kindness and we’re all getting I think a little bit braver about talking about it um but again it just shows how important it is is if you run a business um to to
Be very open about it um there is a whole another conversation to have probably on another day um around how saying that kindness is important to you the experience that your employees have within your organization and your customers has to match up but um you
Know that that give us gives us a sense um and finally I wanted to just tell you about a piece of research um this A lady called Dr Katherine Buchanan at the University of Essex and and her research was actually very specific about noticing kindness and what she found in
Her study that was and so she had a group of people that were just shown negative news coverage um and they had a group of people who were shown that same coverage but were also shown stories of helpers within those um negative um events and what they found um was that
The people who um uh who saw the stories of the helpers as well uh reported far fewer negative emotions and they felt much more positive and upbeat as a result of of what they had seen so that gives us that sort of context of why it matters to us as
Individuals and to the companies we work for the communities that we’re part of the groups that that we are involved with okay so I’ve just pulled up a few examples from the time for kindness um uh social media feeds um just to give you some examples of what it might look
Like in practice um and funny enough as we have had um Kanani joining us uh today my first example um is the superhero one um and this was one that somebody sent in um their young child was um unable to to be at school um and
So they they had to join um uh the mommy’s work call um and they dressed as a superhero um and the colleagues all welcomed um the the the young attendee as it were at the start of the meeting um so as we just did with with Kanani
Actually and a little bit of interaction and then one of um the colleagues suggests did um that the child might like to draw a picture while mommy was was doing her meeting and then at the end of the meeting they invited the child to show their picture and have a
Bit of a chat about it so I like that story it has lots of elements of kindness because obviously um you know there was the kindness to the child um but also the kindness to to the mom who might have been feeling a bit stressed about you know split sort of um being
Pulled into directions and so on um and of course actually um the the the Young child is an employee of the future and if we could give our kids a more positive experience and a more positive sort of sight of um work even at that young age before they’re even thinking
About it then that is all all to the good as it were so I thought I’d share that one with you um the supermarket one we get this one quite a lot actually um which um is is no bad thing uh which is the you know you’re there with your um
Your week your big shop um and the person behind you um has just got two items or you might be the one with just the two um and they let you go in front um it’s a really small gesture but actually it can make a big difference to
The person that’s just got two items and and is in a rush to get to a doctor’s appointment or back to the office or whatever it might be the one at the top is my friends Emer and Steve who were on holiday in Northern Ireland um went to
Get on a bus uh went to pay uh with their debit card and it turns out you have to use cash on the buses uh in in Northern Ireland um and so of course they we don’t all carry cash anymore do we but you know they had a few coins
Didn’t have enough but other passengers on the bus all chipped in gave them um so that they could um buy their um their ticket and and you know that that was fantastically kind in itself again what I like about this one is the next time they caught the bus of course they had
Their coins they got on the bus and the same thing happened to someone else and they were able to contribute some of their coins to to you know help the next person so it’s that kind of paying it forward thing and the final example I’ve
Just got here to share with you um is the bisc um this is a biscuit Factory up in uh some many Leeds I believe um and they run their whole business um with kindness really running through it um and one of the things is that they do
Have a lot of parents who are employees um and they have a lot of flexibility so they never question if you need to leave early to go to dentist appointment or to watch the school play um and they even in school holidays they they um adjust their production so that they um
Uh you know they they produce less basically during the holiday so that that people can not have quite as many challenges with their child care um there is on on on the time of kindness website there was a whole blog that they wrote about how they run their business
With kindness running through it which is is quite an interesting read if if that’s something You’ like to know more about okay so on that note I am going to um move us on now to the first um of of the breakout groups um if everybody
Would agreeable so um as I said right at the beginning you know sharing stories of kindness is a really positive thing to do it does make us feel hopeful it does give us a little boost and and an uplift um and so that’s what we’re going
To spend a bit of time doing now um this photograph is was actually taken um uh Last Summer the um time for kindness volunteer team and I had a stall at the University of breing um Community Festival we collected we spent the day collecting stories of kindness it was an
Absolute Joy um the the board you can see in the back of this photo is is where we were collecting those photos uh collect no stories I should say children Drew pictures we had Post-it notes um and we ended up with over 50 of them so um it it was
Fantastic so what I would like to do and I think um Joanna is going to kindly uh put us into breakout rooms in a moment um and I’d like us to spend the time um telling each other joys of kindness so what is the kindness that you have seen
Ideally recently although if it’s longer ago that’s absolutely fine too um I want you to think about stories of kindness that you have re been on the receiving end of as it were um things that um perhaps you have done that have been kind for others one of the things that
Was really interesting at the community Festival was that people were much shy about telling us about things they had done themselves um uh adults were um children were quite happy to tell us that they were kind it was absolutely beautiful because they owned their kindness in a way that we as adults seem
To have lost perhaps um that that ability along the way for whatever reason um but yes so think of things that you have done things that you have been on the receiving end things that you have witnessed somewhere else um it might be in a work uh your work setting
It might be in your home might be out in and about um in public um there are no um boundaries around it um other than to say talk about the positivity and the kindness um and perhaps just sort of pay attention to how that telling those
Stories is having an impact on you okay um well thank you everybody um I hope you uh enjoyed telling each other um your stories um I think given the timey do the math on the time um I am going to um invite one or two of you to
Briefly tell us one of your kindness stories from from your group so who would like to go first oh oh you’re sh so Sarah I didn’t say my story because I didn’t have time perfect there we go I’ll try and say it quickly so yeah
The other day I don’t know if you know deaf I often mention decaf on the ethical reading page because they do lots of kind things actually and the lady who runs that Tina she’s just a very very warm and lovely person and I went in there because I wanted to refill
My um stuff for my washing machine my um detergent and stuff and I went in and she looked at me she said something’s not right with you what’s going on and I started to say oh I’ve just had some really bad news okay tell me about it
I’m going to make you a chai and she made me a nice fresh chai with freshly grated Ginger or like offloaded onto her and was just so just just listened really and just nodded and then I tried to pay her and she refused absolutely I’m not going to take payment for that I
Made it for you because I wanted to which was so nice and just that made feels so so much better and then a little addition on to that is a woman was there with her little girl while we were chatting and before they left she
Came up to me and said can I give you a cuddle girl gave me a hug and it was like oh my goodness and I walked out of there feeling so much better really I it was transformational and it’s just you know just people taking those moments to
Just be kind really it really really did make a difference to me yeah fantastic thank you thank you for sharing that with us it’s a great example and and you’re actually right you know that idea um that um you know kindness is somehow a bit weak and fluffy um stories like
Yours really show that that it’s not kindness is powerful because it connects us and it connects us as as human beings um and and it’s it’s those kind of moments which um like you say you know you felt listened to you felt heard you sort of had that that moment and that
Can make a huge difference so thank you thank you for sharing that uh I think we’ve got time for one more to be example to be shared who’s going to be brave and speak up I nominate James because he said something really interesting oh unless
Ian wants to say no I I appreciate a nomination well what is it uh I said a few things what was it Katherine that you thought might be nice to share with everyone else about the animal one because I thought that was really interesting so that’s not something
We’ve covered oh I think uh you know it’s just I think all as I said all creatures are are here uh are entitled to life and so my natural tendency since I was a very young child I remember being four years old as I said if you
See um a tiny little creature in need is help by see for example ants in my kitchen uh W you know trying swim and and and um drowning in water so I’d go and remove them and and and puff on them to dry them up and or see on the public
Clue as I said there fly or something in someone else’s pool you still go remove it and think it has another chance of life for some reason I came across that’s why I became a Buddhist many years later because that’s my natural tendency I was very happy to see there’s
Actually an official religion that does uh uh defend and sustain that people think oh you’re a Buddhist so you you you think all animals are are are all life is precious but I think it’s the other way around that was my innate nature so I was happy that actually
There is an official religion throughout Millennia that’s grown in that direction fantastic yeah that’s another great example you know that is you know kindness isn’t it my husband has a great story of when his sister was little he he’s quite a bit older and she was
Worried because there was a bee in a puddle or something in the garden and they went and got her spayed and scooped it out and so and he often a way that young children are sort of drawn to to kindness and a way for them to to to
Learn we we get quite a lot of um time for kindness related stories to do with animals actually which is great to hear and a little bit of a hot off the press tip for you all I write a monthly um kindness column for woking them today
And reading today um and my topic for my next one is going to be animals and kindness so um yeah thank you for bringing that one up that that’s great but yeah don’t tell anyone because I haven’t written it yet but it will be out in a couple of weeks time
Okay I just add that I think that’s something that we also talking in our breakup and not uh didn’t go further into into that but yeah as you said kids I think you get a group of Toppers together they don’t care what color is the skin of the other what gender what
Clothes they have on what they come from isn’t it they are natural kind to each other it’s see another human being there and I think we could learn a lot from children in that way as well yeah it’s it’s often the way in fact Claudia Hammond who I mentioned in the the
Definitions um I one of of my earlier slides um she um I’m not sure if it was her piece of research or I’ve just heard her talking about it um but she talks about you know there has been research done into um you know Toddlers and and
How they will go and help somebody um um that needs help and and things like you know even if they’re doing something really fun if they can see that somebody you know is is in stress in some way they will stop and go and help them and
They’ve done some research to show that you can sort of put a I don’t know a Bo or something they have to clamber over to get to the person that needs help and they will still do it um and yeah somewhere along the way you know for whatever reason we not necessarily lose
That in Instinct but I think we we lose somehow that sort of um what’s the way natural way of following that that instinct um but um yeah I think we can we can ear learn some of those things um that’s my mission to encourage everyone to see that actually there are lots of
People who are still kind um and we need to focus on them more than than the ones that aren’t so um in our next breakout um session we are going to think about some of the things um that we can build as habits in our lives to help us notice
Kindness more often because it can be quite easy um in the in the current um world in particular um to have too much attention put onto negative things and then that becomes a bit of a downward spiral so so um I’m going to share a few tips
Um for that you can apply for yourself for seeing kindness um in in the world around you more often and like I said at the beginning if you have some of these things in your sort of toolbox then um they are things that you can choose to
Use as and when um either every day or or if you’re having a day when you’re you’re feeling a bit low um so um the first um tip I would give you is to be really conscious of your thoughts and interpretations of situations so um one of the stories that we had sent
In a few years ago was somebody who was trying to come out of the doors of a of a shopping center and people were flowing through towards them and and and they couldn’t get out um but then somebody did stop um and waited and they
Were able to to to to get out of the doors um and you know that um kindness of that one person was the story that we shared it would be really easy to think oh nobody stops these days but one person did one person was kind um so um
Tip for seeing more kindness is to be conscious of your own thoughts and if you catch yourself going down more a negative um uh stream with your thoughts then then to make that conscious choice to stop and reframe and think is there a different way of looking at this is
There some kindness here that I can look at um and see and and feel hopeful with another tip um is to create reminders of what’s out there so you’ve got something that you can turn to on darker days because there are days when it is harder than others um to to see
What’s out there and if you have um a reminder um that you can turn to really easily it just makes it easier for you to sort of flip that switch and and and start to think um you know notice that that positivity again um it could be
Anything I I would put in a um a suggestion as that you bookmark time for kindness because we do have lots of examples there so so that’s a quick and easy way for you to see some of those stories but it might be something like a
Post-It note up next to your desk by the kettle somewhere that you can see it really easily um to remind yourself it might be a voice note on your phone um if that’s something you work with doesn’t really matter what that reminder is but it does need to be something that
That works for you and the third um tip I would give is about being kind to yourself because it is much easier to see things elsewhere um in other people if you’re experiencing it yourself um and kindness to self um you there’s probably a whole another session on that
Uh you know for some people that might look like a bubble bath or reading a good book um or it might be um you know quieting that negative voice in your head um or you know it might be spending time with people you love or not spending time with people you don’t etc
Etc um but whatever kindness looks like for you if you experience it more you will see it more um in others um and then some practical ideas um of things um that you can sort of take tips and translate them so some of the um groups that come have taken part
In in my workshops um they talk about um they are going to start all their team meetings by sharing an example of kindness so rather than pitching straight into the the business of the day which we could quite often do just taking a few minutes to say okay who’s
Seen some kindness this week this month on the way into work this morning and it just sets that tone of a slightly more positive upbeat fun atmosphere um to begin um those meetings in um another thing you can do is about you know actively acknowledging your friends and family for the kind things
That they do so kind of get comfortable with using that language you know and say oh thank you that was a really kind thing you did because XY z um even without the because you know just that it’s a really kind thing to do and again
It’s just about us getting used to to using this language and not seeing it as a weakness that’s too embarrassing to talk about um the more we do it the more the more comfortable we will feel um another suggestion is to take five minutes at the end of your day to
Again consciously think about what the kind things I have seen or done today um lots of people or creating numbers of people I think are are you talk about gratitude journaling at the end of the day and actually some of what you’re grateful for might very well be com this
So so some of you might already be doing this um but again it’s just taking those moments to kind of pause and think um what did I see what was kind um and the more you get into that habit of um thinking about those stories and those
Examples the easier it will come and you you may even get to a stage where actually you don’t need to sort of carve out a specific time for yourself at the end of the day because it becomes um just part of who you are and and and how
You you operate in the world as it were um but if it if it doesn’t come naturally then then making it a set time every day can um started to get that as going as a habit for you okay so no more questions from anybody I
Don’t think so we will move into our our next um breakout room and this is all about um creating habits so um what I’d like you to do is I’d like you to have a conversation in in your groups about how you can create those habits in your life
To see kindness more often you might want to think about some of the examples you talked about earlier um as as a sort of template for it if you like so maybe think about um you know where were you when you saw that kindness who was
Involved um what was um what were you doing what were they doing um were you always in the office when you saw things were you always in the supermarket the idea being if you’ve got a clear review of when you already see kindness then
You can build on it a little bit more um and build um that at more consciously as habits into your life um what I’d like you to do this time um is um within your groups have a chat about habits and um uh we’ll have about 10 minutes again and
Um so I’m G to stop the share for a minute there so we can go into our our rooms um we have about 10 minutes again um but so I’d like to talk about habit sharing um and try to um end the session with an idea either that you have talked
Through with um the other in your breakout room or that you’re starting to form in your head of one thing one action that you’re going to take after this session from now on to start to notice kindness more often in your life um and if we do about 10 minutes and
Then we should have just a couple of minutes to um share a couple of examples hopefully um you you found that that conversation useful as well and um you came up with some ideas of things that you are going to uh do differently um I um
I’m not going to attempt Fate by trying to pull up my my last slide because it just said Thank you on it anyway so I think I will will will will say thank you um and um yes I hope you’ve enjoyed um Ian we’re almost out of time now so
Um so we I won’t kind of go around and check what everyone’s uh planning to do um but what I will say is that um as I mentioned at the beginning at time for kindness we have um a community of voluntary kindness ambassadors um and if you would like to
Go and sign up as an ambassador what we ask you to do is to make a pledge of something you are going to do to notice kindness in the world around you um I don’t check up on you um it’s not for me to come and check uh but it’s just um
The idea is to to create um this idea that you are not alone in wanting to see more kindness in the world and in taking action to do so um so I invite you if you would like to do so to go to timefor kindness. co.uk um and under the services section
There’s a page about the ambassadors and you can sign up there and put in the action you’ve just been talking about in your breakout groups um to to make that little um commitment to yourself uh I I do send out emails uh to that list but
Not not massively often just to kind of keep you connected to to part of the community so um that is an offer otherwise um thank you very much taking part this evening I hope you’ve enjoyed the session as I say it’s a very condensed version of something that we
Would normally take about half a day to do um but um yes thank you for taking part in the conversations and um Karen bless you I think you’ve got your your hand up even despite just can’t not quite technical enough to do the thing could I ask somebody from ethical wding because I’m
Not tech tech savvy enough especially with only one hand uh to to note down that website you just said could could somebody from ethical reading email we will send it out um we’ll send it out so Sarah if you could let us know um the details of that and then um Joanna can
Send that out to to everyone who has attended today absolutely I can do the slides as a PDF to be circulated if that would be yeah that’ be awesome as well actually and then you’ve got you know some of the research and whatnot that I
I put in it for you great yeah I’ll do that later fantastic well thank you very much Sarah um wonderful session and I hope everybody um enjoyed it um yes Jo let’s join us in you got unmuted thank you very much thank you fantastic I just share um screen for the last one
Um from uh ethical reading perspective um as I said thank you very much and we’d love for you to get involved with us too so um we have a website and we do a whole bunch of different programs around business ethics um health and well-being environmental sustainability
And latest one of course his ethics and education where engaged with school children um and we’d love for you to follow us on social media but also to perhaps join us as a volunteer that would be awesome and good wor saying when the ne the first um walk Works
Session is yes um so in the third um Wednesday of February um we will be joining Caroline from um who’s there who’s with in the Hat there that you see from walk works so Caroline do you want to explain quickly what walk walk Works
Does yep so I I run walk works with my walking partner Liz and every Wednesday we’re in Reading Town Center at 12:30 in the marketplace and it’s just a 40 45 minute walk to get people away from their desk um anyone can come along it’s
It’s meant to be a perk for the people that work in town but lots of Freelancers come along and join us and you it’s just a really nice way to chat and get some exercise and meet other people from the town and find out what’s going on in around the
Town and um it’s just always a joy whatever the weather so any of you are welcome to join us at any time brilliant so um actually so which days of the week do you actually do it it’s Wednesday every Wednesday Liz and I will always be in the marketplace every Wednesday
Standing by the information board at 12:30 brilliant so thanks very much Caroline hope to see you on those walks uh and certainly we’ll be there at least every third Wednesday of the month uh as we go forward so that’ll be wonderful uh and it’d be great to see you again um at
Another event uh in the future we’re planning probably an event around ethical recruitment sometime in March uh we’re putting a calendar together at the moment we’re planning a neurodiversity event um sometime uh in the year as well uh we’re doing something with Incredible Edible um um that are from the environmental um
Side and also we’ll be doing something obviously with as part of the climate um Festival in June um some events at that time so all of those events uh we hope to see you uh at some point so um have a good evening and thank you for joining us today