Our Values

Empowerment – We help individuals into self-support, using our facilities and network to build confidence and opportunity.  Helping those with a passion for change realise their social impact ambitions through independent Social Enterprise.

Social Equality – We believe that all people are equal and deserve the same opportunities in life.  That enough is enough and that we should share what we have, and give what is excess.

Passion – This is the most important ingredient for those wishing to make a difference; often misunderstood as interest or a long day at the office! Our mission is to support passion, helping those gifted and dedicated to social impact with our resources.

Self-sustainability – It is very important to us to invest in tomorrow.  We are not a frontline, hole-patching charity, although we are respectful and grateful to those who are.  We support ‘help-yourself’ solutions and projects that can become self-sustainable.

Community – Working together we can change the world.  Sharing resources is key to sustainable social impact. We promote the benefits of community through social cafes, co-housing, co-operative buying, resource sharing, social action, and a fair economy – actively engaging with those in the communities around us who want to become part of our KindaMovement.

As children, we’re raised to be kind by our support network of parents, carers, and teachers – we’re taught to believe in kindness and to show it to others.  So why is it that, as we grow up, kindness becomes something that we forget in favour of our own life priorities?  Maybe we forget to say thank you when someone holds open a door for us, or perhaps we were in too much of a rush to smile back at the cashier who helped us pack our shopping bags.  Kindness is an intrinsic part of a happily functioning society, it makes people feel valued and appreciated, and yet frequently it seems to be missing from our emotional vocabulary.

This is where the Missing Kind was born – in a world that had kindness at its heart but just needed a little nudge to put it back at the forefront.  To remember that sometimes the simplest acts can be the warmest, the most remembered, the kindest.

“Kindness, is a corny little word, a word not in the vocabulary of many cultures. For those living as a community, it’s a way of life. The Western lifestyle is such that ‘kindness’ increasingly requires recognition, often triggering spontaneous, superficial actions.

In my experience, often people are distracted by busy lives, kindness diminishing with that increased busyness, forgetting their roots and that kindness is intrinsic to primitive and sufficient living, they don’t have time for it anymore.  I came from a background where I had nothing, but people were kind and I think I represent a lot of young people leaving home and losing the community kindness with an increasing egocentric lifestyle.   For me, it is more time with indigenous cultures, a back-to-roots thinking of enough is enough, a gifting economy, foraging for natural food and medicines, education in nature, and spiritual belief in our purpose

There is an incoming tide of change, that ‘Missing Kind’ is coming home!”