He's Done Something Kind Every Day For 5 Years. Now He Has A New Mission

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For five years, 22-year-old Sebbie Hall has carried out an act of kindness every single day – a phenomenal achievement, when you stop and think about it. 

His kindness quest began during the start of the Covid pandemic, when Sebbie noticed that one of his classmates was becoming isolated and couldn’t access online learning properly.

Sebbie, who was already sensitive to how loneliness can feel, desperately wanted to help.

What started as a simple effort to make one friend feel less alone turned into a personal promise: to do one act of kindness, every single day, for as long as he could.

And he’s certainly kept that promise. 

His acts of kindness range from the very small and personal to extremely large and public. He’s donated over 5,000 meals to food banks, delivered laptops to children who could not access remote lessons, and funded communication devices for disabled young people so they can learn and connect with others.

He has welcomed Ukrainian orphans and families arriving in the UK, has spent time with homeless individuals in towns and cities across the country, and has raised well over £100,000 for small local and national charities. 

Sebbie, who is from Staffordshire, also lives with a rare 8p duplication/deletion chromosome anomaly – a complex condition that affects his muscle tone, mobility, communication and learning.

His family were once told there was “no hope” for his future. Yet he has created a life that centres on hope, kindness and connection, and has shown that disability does not limit someone’s ability to change the world.

In 2022, he and his family set up The Sebbie Hall Kindness Foundation, which provides grants to grassroots organisations that help disabled young adults overcome loneliness and social isolation.

In the coming months, Sebbie will also be turning his focus to supporting disabled young adults. His dream is to create assisted living kindness care villages – communities that combine the practical support of assisted living with everyday kindness.

There is clearly a need. Sebbie has heard from parents and carers who have described sons and daughters in their 20s who rarely leave the house and have no friends, or young adults placed in care homes designed for older people, or in long-stay hospital units because there was nowhere else for them to go.

He is now raising money to fund kindness villages where disabled young adults can live in their own homes within a community, with support on hand, but with genuine independence, friendships and purpose. 

His mum Ashley Hall told HuffPost UK: “Sebbie’s vision is not just about housing; it is about reimagining adulthood for disabled people as something hopeful and full of possibility, rather than something defined by loss of services and shrinking horizons.”

During these past five years, Sebbie and his family have witnessed just how contagious kindness can be. 

“When he hands out kindness cards in a hospital, a care home or on a street, people often go on to do something kind for someone else,” said Ashley.

“Schoolchildren who hear his story often start their own kindness challenges. He has seen his message echoed in classrooms in the UK and abroad: young people deciding to act differently because they have heard that ‘kindness can be a superpower’.”

But at the same time, as Sebbie has met with more people, he has witnessed how broken the current system can be for disabled young adults in the UK.

“So many of the people he meets, or whose families write to him, are lonely, cut off from community, or placed in settings that do not meet their needs,” said his mum.

“One of the biggest lessons has been that the country is full of kindness at an individual level, but the structures around disabled young people – especially after the age of 18 – are often fragmented, under-resourced and isolating.”

For those wanting to support Sebbie’s next mission to build kindness villages, you can donate (if you wish) via sebbiehall.com, share his story or take on your own acts of kindness in his name. 

“Supporting Sebbie’s work is not only about helping one young man’s dream; it is about reshaping the future for thousands of disabled young adults who currently face isolation, inappropriate placements and a lack of genuine choices,” said Ashley.

“By backing this vision now, people can be part of a legacy that will outlast any single project – a legacy of kindness, community and real change.”

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