Morning all!  Firstly, it’s our great pleasure to announce that this week is our 9th anniversary! It’s a real team effort and we’re so grateful to everyone involved for your unwavering love and humanity. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.  This week we were asked a question by our lovely member Tabitha who gives her life in servitude of young people that need a little more help and the question is simply :  Can we help a lovely 4 year old boy to feel the breeze on his f

Hello lovely members, We never underestimate the wonder of you all being these eyes and ears of kindness out in the world, spotting the needs we can help support. Thank you to each and every one of you for allowing us to be the brilliant force for good that we, collectively, are. This week’s nomination comes from Sarah, who, along with other friends, noticed a change in their mate Phil and potentially saved his life. They are now looking our for him still – hoping to support

Happy Wednesday to our lovely community. This weeks nomination comes from two of our members from Nantyglo, a tight knit community that are doing their upmost to support a family who are having a really tough time. I hope we show this family that there is another community showing them love and support. I know we have said this before, but I don’t want or imagine how hard it must be to see your child being so poorly, but the idea that money worries add to that must be so stre

Morning all! This week celebrates family and being able to help a little sister who’s really worried about her big sister and thanks to our good friend and member Holly was able to reach out to us to see if we could make her life a little easier as she battles cancer as well as life coming thick and fast.  Here’s her nomination:  Special treat for Sister with cancer - I am nominating my big sister, who is currently undergoing intense treatment for breast cancer, including bot

Amidst the bloody lovely, civic minded decent people like you in the world I’m sure it won’t surprise you to learn that there are exploitative, manipulative, cynical people and groups that walk among us looking to take advantage of vulnerable people. We were heartbroken to learn of one such instance that our friend Rozi brought to our attention. It’s the story of a poor young women whose name we redacted who was taken advantage of and could really benefit from the milk or our

Foster carers are incredible people. They look after our most vulnerable young people when they need it most. Be it for weeks, months or years. The young people they look after often have incredibly diverse needs emotionally, behaviourally and educationally and that unconditional love and support needed to meet these needs whilst being incredibly rewarding must take their emotional toll?  So what happens when these wonderful people need support?  Our friends at Bristol 500 a

January is hard but the light is returning very slowly and the act of helping, donating and sending kindness to someone once a week makes us at 500 Reasons feel really good and very happy and we send love to you all every single week.  This week’s nomination is from Kim who has had such amazing help from AAT who are a small trust.  Good morning everyone,  I'd like to nominate The Aplastic Anaemia Trust (AAT)for a  donation please . This tiny charity is dear to my heart. Their

Hello to our lovely 500, we hope January isn’t too dark and cold for everyone. This week we are honouring one of our members who has been with us since we started, Rosemary Watson James. Rosemary didn’t ever nominate, but she really loved being a member of 500 reasons and often sent messages and offered help further to our nominations. Sadly, Rosemary passed before Christmas from cancer. Last year she battled through surgery and chemotherapy and was given the all clear. But s

Happy new year everyone. I hope 2026 bring you everything you deserve. The weather warnings coming up suggest a bitter cold so hope you’re all able to stay safe and warm but for many less fortunate SWEP will be implemented.  SWEP stands for Severe Weather Emergency Protocol, a system used by local authorities, primarily in the UK, to provide emergency shelter and support for people sleeping rough during extreme weather conditions like freezing cold, heavy rain, wind, or extre

We hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas and are enjoying this time until New Year’s Day and would love to let you all know how much we appreciate the power of community through our group and enjoy the weekly feeing of extending help and kindness through our nominations.  This week we are re-visiting a person we helped last year, this time under very different circumstances. We hope our act of kindness toward Ran will be very welcome and we send much love at this time and a

Good morning and happy Christmas Eve to you all. Thank you all so much for your unwavering support this year. Your incredible nominations have meant we’ve helped such a broad range of people and you’ve all helped make such an important difference each and every week.  This week we’ve decided to help the tremendous  https://www.operationcommunityhamper.co.uk/about They started from their humble beginnings as case workers whose hearts broke for vulnerable families that were una

Hey you lovely lot! We have decided to split the pot this week between two wonderful homeless organisations either side of the Severn.  In Bristol, the incredible Wild Goose day centre who offers meals, hope and support to anyone experiencing insecurities such as hunger or homelessness. The hot meals and practical help offered give people hope at their point of crisis, whilst ongoing support means that they are championed to rebuild their lives. You can find more out about th

Morning all, we have two important nominations this week that we’ve chosen to split the pot with. Firstly, first time nominator Mike has been in touch regarding 12 year old Bessie who has Leukaemia and her self employed parents are needing to raise funds to stay by her side whilst she continues treatment. We wish her and her family all our love.  Our second nomination is The Flying Seagull Project who, in their own words say: “Around the world, millions of childhoods are bein

Imagine doing the job you love, having a real passion for making a difference in your community and then having your livelihood taken from you by some opportunistic thieves. That’s what happened to poor Jay in Manchester. Thankfully our lovely member Holly thought we might be able to put a smile on his face and get him back transforming the landscape of Manchester again. Top man Jay and thanks Holly! Hope this helps you get back on your feet x Greetings from Manchester on thi

Hello you wonderful lot…   Here we are, racing through November towards the end of the year. Christmas decorations and lights popping up everywhere and even snow!! As always at this time of year, we start to look out for those who might need a helping hand to find some ‘Festive Joy’. And we’ve had a few nominations come in which we immediately felt we wanted to help. So this week we are splitting the pot between a family whose life was turned upside down by the recent floods

Hello and happy Wednesday to our lovely and loving community. This weeks recipient was nominated by two lovely members both Ffion and Ellie who reached out to help a person in need of our support. The NHS, in my option the backbone of our society  that is held together by the amazing, hard working staff, that tirelessly give everything to their patients, and when some thing awful happens to us or one of our loved ones, we run towards for the help and treatment we need. I can’

Hello you wonderful bunch…   Wishing everyone a Happy Halloween this week and hope that at least some of you are getting creative with brilliant costumes and decorations for some spooky fun this weekend. May there be more treats than tricks for you gorgeous lot!!   And in the spirit of creativity, this week we are splitting the pot between three artists/arts projects that need a little helping hand. We find ourselves with a little surplus due to some kind donations and so we’

Morning all!  Some stories break your heart and inspire you all at once. This is one of them. Marv is a lovely fella and family man who has moved three different members to nominate him and his family whilst he faces the worst news imaginable.  Alexis and her husband Marvin have been together since they were sixteen. Childhood sweethearts who built a life, a home, and a beautiful family together, with two daughters, aged 11 and 8, who completely adore their dad. For years, Ma