Welcome to World Kindness Australia

World Kindness Australia is not a governing body, it is a platform for national collaboration designed to encourage and support all sectors of our communities to engage in the global campaign for a kinder world. World Kindness Australia ’s membership base is not specifically for “Kindness” organisations as it seeks engagements with cities, government departments, business, education, nfp community groups, peak association bodies and individuals of influence. We welcome you to join with us in this worthy endeavour as we continue to research and explore more opportunities to Inspire, Engage & Influence those with influence, on how a kinder world can be realised in our lifetime.

Our Story

World Kindness Australia was founded in May 2011 as a registered Not For Profit following the success of a local school campaign in 2009 to address the issues of bystander behaviour with the “Courage To Be Kind”. This saw World Kindness Day (November13th) placed on both the New South Wales State and Australian Federal School Calendars by the Departments of Education resulting in 400 events in the following months. This caught the attention of the Singapore Government who at the time was the Secretariat to the global body. The global campaign aims to ensure Kindness engages everyone from our classrooms, to our staff rooms and from our Boardrooms and those residing in our corridors of Government. In Australia we saw the campaign as a way to address the fear associated to bystander behaviour in situations of bullying, however it has far more reach in a world which struggles to find the “Courage To Be Kind” and be the best it can be.

Our goal is to bring diverse communities together in a world which often finds itself being captured by a campaign of fear and hate through harnessing the research, goodwill and ideas of many from across the nation and indeed the world because sadly the only thing that does not discriminate is discrimination where the crosshairs can fall on one’s politics, race, religion, gender, sexual preference, age and even post codes. By establishing a platform for national collaboration based on a foundation of kindness we are placed in a better position to deliver outcomes which can focuss on content rather than the messenger, which can be a catalyst for real change. Engaging cities to support our member’s campaigns and activities is a key element to our charter to execute the global strategy and has already seen seen cities and local councils sign declarations of support and appoint Goodwill Ambassadors.