Our No Recourse to Public Funds Project (NIHR-funded) turned Mission Kitchen into a “beautiful mess” of laughter, inspiring conversations, and incredible dishes from around the world! 🍳🌍
Migration truly matters!
#CommunityEngagement #FoodAndCulture #nihr #NoRecourseToPublicFunds #Humanness #Love
Alt text: A colourful illustrated graphic by Frank Ape titled “Why kindness is more important than ever.” It shows four panels explaining reasons for kindness, including overwhelm, unseen struggles, learning by example, and uncertainty. In the centre, two simple characters connect inside a heart shape, one sitting, one reaching out, symbolising care and support. Picture by Frank Ape
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” Dalai Lama
Kindness meets people where they are. Even when we can’t see the full story.
It helps to create a little steadiness in what feels unsettled.
Be kind to yourself too, it’ll be ok.
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#kindness #compassion #humanness
Art by Frank Ape
A colourful illustration by Katie Abey showing a bright, expressive owl surrounded by vibrant flowers and leaves in pink, yellow, green and blue. The owl has wide eyes and a slightly frazzled but gentle expression, representing the “Owl of Overwhelm.” The tone of the artwork is playful and reassuring, offering a reminder to go easy on yourself and be kind to yourself when life feels like a lot. Picture by Katie Abey.
“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” Sydney J. Harris
Feeling a little overwhelmed?
Life can be wonderful and complicated all at once.
Go easy on yourself. A pause, a breath, a moment to reset can help.
🧡
#kindness #SelfCompassion #humanness
Picture by Katie Abey
Your own #humanness may indeed trick you into believing you are #powerless. 𐦂𖨆𐀪𖠋
A colourful illustrated image on a deep navy blue background with playful hand drawn lettering reading “Signs that you are HUMAN.” Surrounding the text are bright cartoon space themed characters including a pink ringed planet, a purple comet shaped character, a smiling yellow star with a pink trail, a green crescent moon with a small star beside it, a fluffy white cloud with a rainbow, and a pink planet shaped like a hand. Each sits next to phrases such as “you say the wrong things,” “you change your mind,” “you are unproductive and messy,” “you have ups and downs,” “you feel unsure at times,” and “you make mistakes.” The colours are vibrant pink, yellow, teal, purple, and white, giving the illustration a warm, playful feeling that celebrates the everyday imperfections of being human. Picture by Nikki Miles.
“Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.” Brené Brown
We say the wrong things. We change our mind. We have ups and downs.
All signs that we’re wonderfully human. 🧡
#kindness #humanness #learning
Picture by Nikki Miles
Illustration of a person in a pink top holding a yellow sign close to their chest. The sign reads “THE WORLD CAN BE CRUEL, THEREFORE I WON’T BE” in bold hand drawn lettering. Small pink hearts float around the image. The hands holding the sign have red painted nails. Soft, warm colours throughout. Picture by @joyfulsmolthings.
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.” Seneca
The world can feel so very cruel.
Choosing kindness is strength in action.
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#kindness #positivity #humanness #SelfCompassion
Picture by @joyfulsmolthings
A square image with a white background and a bright rainbow border in pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. In bold, hand drawn black lettering it reads: “Your softness is not weakness.” Beneath the text is the handle @anxiety.positive. The overall feel is simple, affirming and colourful. Picture by anxiety.positive
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” Brené Brown
Softness holds possibility. When we allow ourselves to be seen, to care, to feel, we open the door to growth and something new.
That’s courage.
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#vulnerability #humanness #kindness
Picture by anxiety.positive
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Be kind.
People are often trying their best, even when it may not look or feel that way to us.
Some, most, are working far harder than we will ever know.
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#kindness #humanness #compassion
lustration of a smiling cream coloured candle with closed eyes and rosy cheeks, topped with a warm orange flame. The background is soft green with lighter green shapes and small dots scattered throughout. Handwritten text reads: “Blowing out someone else’s candle doesn’t make yours shine any brighter.” The overall tone is gentle, warm, and reassuring. Joyfulsmolthings
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one.” Marcus Aurelius
Kindness often shows up in small choices we make with our words, our pauses, and how we treat one another when no one is watching. 🧡
#kindness #humanness #learning #compassion
Art by joyfulsmolthings
A bright, colourful illustration with layered rainbow brushstrokes surrounding a turquoise centre. White star and sparkle doodles are scattered throughout. In the middle, hand lettered text reads: “Never underestimate the ripple effect that your healing and your kindness is having on the world.” The overall feel is warm, hopeful, and uplifting. Picture by Katie Abey.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
Your healing and your kindness matters. Even when it feels unseen, it is making a difference.
🧡
#kindness #humanness #positivity
Art by Katie Abey
A bright, playful illustration on a white background, framed by a thick, hand drawn green outline shaped like an uneven arch. Inside the frame, bold black hand lettered text reads: “There’s always time to be compassionate and kind.” Two simple flowers sit on either side of the text, one blue with a yellow centre on the left and one red with a pink centre on the right. The style is cheerful, childlike, and hopeful, with soft colours and an uplifting tone. Picture by Luke John Matthew Arnold
“People will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
There is always time for compassion. Always time for kindness. To others, and to ourselves.
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#kindness #compassion #humanness #positivity
Picture by Luke John Matthew Arnold
A colourful illustrated square image with a cream background and playful border tiles featuring smiley faces, hearts, butterflies, mushrooms, stars, and ladybirds in soft pastel colours. In the centre, handwritten-style black text reads “Congrats on your failures, most people don’t even try,” highlighted with yellow brush strokes behind each line of text. Small decorative sparkles and dots appear around the words, giving the image a warm, encouraging feel. The artist’s handle “@joyfulsmolthings” appears near the bottom of the main text. Picture by joyfulsmolthings.
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett
Mistakes made. Lessons learned. Trying matters. Learning matters.
And sometimes, trying again matters too.
Be gentle with yourself.
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#learning #humanness #kindness
A bright, playful illustrated poster filled with pastel shapes including hearts, stars, flowers, squiggles and abstract forms in yellow, blue, pink, green and lilac on a white background. In the centre is a block of text in mixed colours and a friendly rounded font that reads: “Find the things, the people and places that make you feel like your best self. The things that make you feel whole. Hold on to all of them. Repeat them over and over again. Fill yourself up with them. For when you are lost and struggling to find your way, these are the things, the people and places that will help you to remember who you are again.” The overall feel is warm, encouraging and uplifting. Picture by Jess Rachel Sharp
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” Maya Angelou
Some days we may forget who we are. There are places, people and moments that remind us.
Hold onto what helps you feel like yourself again. 🧡
#kindness #SelfWorth #learning #humanness
Picture by Jess Rachel Sharp
Illustrated image with the heading “The most precious things in life aren’t things. They are…” followed by warm, festive style drawings of mugs of hot drinks. Each mug represents something valuable: your health, your inner peace, your energy, your sense of safety, a calm mind, your freedom, and your time. Short messages encourage nurturing health, protecting safety, feeding the mind with positivity, honouring energy, using freedom wisely, and valuing time as a gift. The colour palette is soft and calming, with gentle winter tones and a reassuring, supportive feel. Picture by @Simply_Anxious.
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” Albert Einstein
The most precious things in life aren’t things at all …. they’re the parts of us worth protecting every single day.
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#kindness #SelfCare #humanness
Picture by @Simply_Anxious
A simple illustrated comic by Beth Evans showing small rounded characters with expressive faces. The text acknowledges that the holiday season can bring pressure to feel happy, that it can feel isolating, and reassures the reader that it’s okay if this isn’t a perfect time and that things will get better. Black hand drawn text on a white background with soft pastel colour highlights. Picture by Beth Evans
“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” Brené Brown
This time of year can bring a lot of expectation.
If it feels a bit much, that makes sense.
You’re still enough, exactly as you are.
#kindness #SelfCompassion #humanness
Picture by Beth Evan’s
A white background illustration featuring a hand drawn rainbow made from thick, uneven brush strokes. The rainbow arches across the centre of the image and includes bright bands of pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red, creating a playful, expressive feel. Above the rainbow, bold black hand lettered text reads: “When your emotions are fighting to come out, let them”. Below the rainbow, also in black hand lettered text, are the words “Be free”. In the bottom left corner, in small black text, is the creator’s handle: @anxiety.positive. The overall tone of the image is warm, encouraging, and supportive, reinforcing the message of allowing emotions to be expressed. Picture by Anxiety Positive
“Emotions are data, not directives.” Susan David.
Letting emotions out is part of being human.
They do not always need fixing or explaining.
Sometimes they simply need space to exist.
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#kindness #emotions #life #humanness
Picture by Anxiety Positive
A soft illustrated grid of nine small gift boxes, each with a different coloured ribbon. Around each box is a handwritten phrase: calm steady energy, freedom from expectation, soft slow paced days, ease on repeat, a quietness that settles, rest that truly restores, a gentle kind of merry, people that feel like home, peace that lingers. The title reads “All I want for Christmas is…” in simple lettering. The colours are muted pinks, greens and creams, giving a warm and soothing feel. Picture by Simply Anxious
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.” Robert Brault
The smallest moments often mean the most.
The simple things really do matter.
🧡
#kindness #gentleness #humanness
Picture by simply anxious
An illustrated artwork in warm tones of yellow, orange and soft brown. Rounded cloud shapes layer outward from the centre with a dotted texture across each band of colour. In the middle, handwritten text reads: “We are all going through something and we all deserve love and understanding.” The overall feel is gentle, warm and reassuring. Picture by @joyfulsmolthings.
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” Amelia Earhart
We all have a lot going on in different ways. Kindness means more than we always realise. Small moments really do matter. 🧡
#kindness #humanness
Picture by @joyfulsmolthings
#wisdom is actually #easy to be had. #humanity is #sorely #wronghearted & #wrongheaded #Being #pious & #toxically full of #piety is evil & misanthropic. If one's so sexually #preoccupied that being #human is near entirely sexual you've #lost 9/10ths of your #life & #humanness. Sick. Ugh. Pathetic.
Brokenness is part of life, part of being human. Every person will at some point live through loss, trauma, cruelty, hurt feelings, or some other hardship. #deeptherapist #hardship #humanness #grief
here‘s a facet of
“basic #humanness”
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Picture by @anxietypositive Alt text: Bright, colourful artwork with wavy vertical stripes in rainbow colours. In the centre is a white cloud-like shape with bold hand-lettered text that reads: “Be human to the fullest.” Artwork credited to @anxiety positive
“To be human is to be beautifully flawed.”
David Whyte
It’s not about having to do it perfectly.
It’s about doing it with care and understanding for ourselves and each other.
🧡
#humanness #kindness
Picture by @anxietypositive
Hand-drawn cartoon-style illustration of characters from Alice in Wonderland. From left to right: the March Hare holding a teacup, the Mad Hatter smiling in a green hat, Alice in a blue dress and white apron, the White Rabbit in a red heart waistcoat, and the Cheshire Cat upside down, grinning. Above their heads, the curved text reads: “Things don’t always make sense.” Below their feet, it says: “But there’s still goodness to be found.” Illustration by @wonder.doodles.
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” W.B. Yeats
Some things won’t make sense…. there’s still goodness to be found.
Kindness, perspective, hope… our humanness is always there.
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#kindness #humanness #gratitude
Picture by @wonder.doodles
AI‐induced dehumanization - Kim - 2025 - Journal of Consumer Psychology - Wiley Online Library #artificialintelligence #empathy #agents #emotionalintelligence #cognition #humanity #humanness #assimilation #dehumanization
"𝐎𝐡 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝, 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐬, 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐞𝐲𝐞."
This is happening in 2025, in the 21st century, in full view of everyone.
We cannot let this continue.
Food and peace
Kindness first
#Gaza #Palestine #Peace #Humanness
“Please wake up and prioritise peace, justice, and humanness.” — Zenab Barry
medium.com/@zenabbarry/...
💝
#peace #Humanness #humanity #LifeIsSacred #Gaza
" ... Let’s choose peace and social cohesion. After all, we are only temporary residents on Earth — no one is here to stay eternally ..."
Exerpt from my latest blog. ↘️
medium.com/@zenabbarry/...
Praying for peace and justice! 💝
#Peace #Gaza #Palestine #Humanness
Pink layered heart illustration with small polka dots. In the centre heart, the handwritten text reads: “Be the reason someone feels heard, seen, valued and loved.” Artwork by @joyfulsmallthings
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” Elizabeth Gilbert
To feel seen.
To be valued.
To know we matter.
That’s what makes us human.
🧡
#kindness #positivity #humanness
Picture by @joyfulsmallthings
Martin Niemoller quote as follows: "First they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me."
#MartinNiemoller #Quote
#Community #Compassion
#Humanity #Humanness
