Morning everyone! Again this week we have a situation where a caring person is in need of a helping hand herself. Thank you so much to everyone who has checked their standing orders or direct debits to us for some strange reason some, completely unbeknownst to our members had just randomly stopped. So for the first time in years we’re going to try and get a few more lovely humans in to join our merry band and boost the coffers to continue our good work. So if you know anyone

Morning all, it’s a personal one for us at HQ this week as one of our own wonderful members has sadly had a stroke and is currently requiring round the clock care. Her husband is by her side but unfortunately the world keeps spinning and the bills keep piling up. They have two wonderful children that they have adopted and she is a pillar of the community but now it’s her that needs the help of that community so we hope you all agree that getting this week’s £500 to them can a

Hi everyone, thank goodness for every single one of you. Diligent, kind, fair minded people that want to bring a little kindness each and every week. This week’s nomination comes from bloomin’ good egg Nathalie who met an older chap and wanted to see that he was okay. He wasn’t and after she was able to help him she thought maybe we could all help him further. Of course we can. It feels unfathomable that in this country of our an elderly man should have to cook food on a bbq

Morning! Our friend and member Charlotte has spent all weekend helping out a family who need urgent and immediate help. This is a family on the edge and we thank Charlotte for her diligence and the incredible and timely assistance she and her friends were able to provide. We’ve sent Charlotte the £500 in order to help rip out and re-lay the carpet and get this family back on its feet. It takes a village x  Hi Joe, I’m not sure if your group can help? Over the last week one

Morning all, no point in sugar coating it, I’m afraid it’s a tough read this week. A lovely lad called Jack’s Leukaemia has come back and our mate Ed has reached out to see if we could help this young family to help their son. Loads of love to you all. Here’s their story x Jack Oatley is an 11-year-old from Leigh on Mendip with a brilliant sense of humour - always quick with a joke and able to make everyone around him smile, even on the toughest days. In May 2023, at just 8 y

Hi all, We hope everyone has been staying cool in the heat and haven’t been too interrupted by the chaos caused by a heatwave. As we slept with fans on and were glad to find ourselves in air conditioned buildings whenever we could, this nomination came in - for a family and community trying to raise cash to buy a generator just for their basic power needs. It felt like a no-brainer. With thanks to longtime member Matt for the nomination and sent with love to Adrian and his f

Hello all, Hoping everyone in the UK is staying cool and hydrated this week!! And we are wishing all the young people in your lives finishing exams, a wonderful summer. We received an email update from the wonderful Barry Hedges who introduced us to the St Nicholas School in Ghana and many of the children in that community who we have been able to assist over the years. The first young person we helped was Florence. We sponsored her for several years until she reached 18 and

With money and work ever more thin on the ground and the cost of living exponentially rising life bites hard for so many people doing everything they can in the face of unending and renewed pressure. In a world that creates its first trillionaire it’s a fiscal certainty that in order for someone to have that much money, many, many more people need to lose. This is one such hardworking person (we’ve redacted a few details to protect their anonymity) Love to you all x I'm in A

Morning all! This week’s nomination is for a brilliant bloke called Craig who is putting himself through the ringer and cycling from John O Groats to Bristol to raise money for two charities that due to his own lived experience are painfully close to his heart. They are both absolutely incredible and do life saving work so we are only too keen to support Craig (especially during this awful weather!!!!) Top man Craig and good luck from all of your friends at 500 Reasons x Over

Happy Wednesday everyone, we hope you’ve all had a great time in the lovely weather and can get a bit of peace now half term is over. This weeks nomination is from Rose for Ilham who works as a support worker for children at a charity and she needs to solve a temporary transport problem for which we are happy to help by getting her UK driving license through top up lessons so she can get back on the road and helping children. Here’s the nomination below Hello lovely admins,

Hey everyone, hope you’re staying cool out there cos it’s hotter than a jalapeño’s armpit! Our wonderful member Holly wants to nominate a young single mum that’s up against it and needs our help. Here’s her nomination for Rebecca: Help for single Mum - I would like to nominate an outstanding young lady who has against all the odds done an amazing job to get to where she is. This young lady is called Rebecca she is 19 years old. She was brought up in care and got pregnant at

Good morning to our lovely community, As summer looks like it’s about to say hello to us, we’ve had some amazing nominations come through. Please continue to send them in while our group continues spreading kindness wherever we can. This week, we have decided to split the pot, as we received two nominations for two truly inspirational children. We wanted them both to not only receive some financial help from us, but also to know that there are over 500 humans sending them so

Happy Wednesday team 500.. These past couple of weeks have been a little stressful in the news but this group keeps me grounded and reminds me that kindness does matter in this wonky world and always will especially through our groups’ actions and help. The sun is coming out and bringing the flowers too. We are a big group and still some members of our members have never nominated, so our lovely member Lesley came along recently with not one but two first time nominations a

Hello lovely members, As summer starts to feel like it finally might be here and we’re all getting outside a little more - maybe getting a bit more active or simply kicking a ball around the park - we have once again decided to sponsor a kids football team. These are some wonderful potential future lionesses - currently only 6 years old!! - but set for bigger things!! We will be sponsoring new raincoats for them all for training in and we’re proud to say they will be adorned

Happy Wednesday to our lovely community. This weeks nomination comes from our kind member Ruth, who wants to help her friend Nathan, who is disabled, keep exploring, we take for granted the access to go for a walk, climb a hill, go see some sites and for this young man this is something we want him to always have access too. Scope’s recent quote said "When people talk about the barriers disabled people face, the focus is usually on physical access. But not all barriers are ph

Every week in the world is a scary one these days and I hope our community of 500 adds a bit of sunshine to us all once a week. This week’s nomination came from Deborah in late March and is a bit time sensitive. We are so pleased to help Harry raise money for the charity that helps his mum through life, what a great thing to do and it will really bolster his fundraising knowing that he has 500 people who have come to help. Well done Harry, we are glad we got to you in time!

Morning everyone, it’s a frightening and scary time in the world right now and we take real heart in the inherent goodness of our community and all of you, its members as we try to shine a little light. Olivia has reached out to us as her cousin’s family are having to deal with the worst news possible. Our hope is that our small gift helps bring a degree of financial security at this awful time. Loads of love and thank you all Your 500 Reasons Admin Team Hiya, Tragically my

Happy Spring and Eid Mubarak! As we enjoy longer days (even the occasional sunny one!), green shoots and beautiful flowers appearing everywhere, many of us are feeling a lift in our shoulders and - excuse the pun - a spring in our step as we start to really open our hearts to 2026! And as we start to move towards the heady, chocolatey craziness of Easter, we thought it was a good time to support this wonderful early years setting in Scotland who are at the mercy of rising (an

Happy Wednesday team 500. The world is so challenging at the moment, creating so much uncertainty everywhere so thank goodness for groups like ours who offer kindness and help. This week’s nomination is from Sara and it also could have come from several other members of our group. We are helping someone who is personally impacted by the ripples of world events. All around us we see talented, passionate, dedicated human beings with dreams and aspirations who are having their

Morning Everyone in our brilliant 500 team. We hope you are well as spring arrives and we get more light. This week we go into the start of our 10th year with a split pot, we are helping to feed people for both nominations Nomination 1 came in January and we helped immediately and are only sharing now because of the time sensitive noms which came in between us helping. Sophie’s nomination came in recently and we love that we have helped both and have provided these meals. I’m