The kindness cafe where you pay with 'good deeds' not money - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Life The kindness cafe where you pay with ‘ good deeds’ not money By You Magazine - July 20, 2018 Now here’s a lovely idea: a pop-up cafe where acts of kindness buys you a snack. At the pop-up Kindness Cafe, from Gosh! food, they’ve swapped regular cash for a new kind of currency. Getty Instead of reaching for your debit card, simply write down a commitment to doing a good deed on the cafe’s Pledge Wall. In return you’ll be rewarded with a Gosh! ‘plant pot’, from healthy-but-delicious sweetcorn and quinoa bites to sweet potato pakora. Yum. The Kindness Cafe is popping up on London’s Southbank (July 26-27), then The Pavilion in Dublin (August 10-11) and finally Liverpool’s ONE complex, (August 25-26). So you’ve got some time to start thinking what your act of kindness will be. As an added incentive for your do-gooding, if you capture and share your act of kindness on Instagram (tagging @goshfreefrom), you could win a whole month’s supply of goodies. Proof that there is such a thing as a free lunch – as long as you’re nice. Suggested pledges include volunteering at a homeless shelter, paying a stranger a compliment, or simply being nicer to fellow commuters at rush hour. Gosh! is a brand dedicated to creating tasty vegan-friendly food that’s free from major allergens (gluten, dairy, egg, nuts and soya) – no easy feat as anyone with food intolerances will know. The Gosh! philosophy is ‘be kind to your body’, hence the Kindness Cafe project. Kindness has been proven to be good for your health, too, boosting levels of the feel-good hormone oxytocin, which in turn can have physical benefits, such as protecting your cardiovascular system. Even better: various sociological studies have found that kindness is contagious. When we’re kind, it triggers a ripple effect that spreads up to three degrees of separation e.g to our friends’ friends’ friends. Free food aside, the case for kindness is a strong one. RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Everything we know about The Crown season 5 Aldi s exercise equipment is on sale with up to 50% off The best Halloween events for 2022 across the UK Popular in Life The You magazine team reveal their New Year s resolutions December 31, 2021 Susannah Taylor The TLC tools your body will love January 23, 2022 How to stop living in fear February 6, 2022 Susannah Taylor My pick of the fittest leggings February 27, 2022 Women’ s Prize for Fiction 2022 winner announced June 17, 2022 These BBC dramas are returning for a second series June 30, 2022 Susannah Taylor gives the lowdown on nature s little helper – CBD April 17, 2022 The baby names that are banned across the world April 27, 2022 The Queen has released her own emojis May 26, 2022 Sally Brompton horoscopes 27th June-3rd July 2022 June 26, 2022 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved