Meet the UK's 'kindest person'

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A Good Samaritan who has surprised strangers with random acts of kindness every day for the last three years has been crowned the UK’s kindest person.  Sebbie Hall was just 17 when he decided to dedicate his life to helping others and has since performed thousands of selfless acts - big and small.

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00:00 So Seb, how have you been raising money?

00:03 Err, being kind.

00:06 Hi Sebby!

00:21 Is that for me?

00:24 Yeah.

00:25 Oh thank you!

00:28 Hi, I'm Ashley and I'm Sebby's mum and this is...

00:31 Sebby.

00:32 And Seb's been doing... Sebby can tell you. What have you been doing Sebby?

00:36 Acts of kindness.

00:38 And he's been doing acts of kindness for about 18 months now.

00:42 Random acts of kindness every day for 18 months.

00:45 And why have you been doing random acts of kindness Sebsy?

00:48 Erm...

00:49 To help...

00:50 Lonely kids.

00:51 To help lonely kids.

00:52 So Sebby started doing this in March of the first lockdown

00:57 because he wanted to speak to somebody on a Zoom who hadn't got a smart device.

01:04 So Sebby said he was going to give him his, didn't you Seb?

01:07 Yeah.

01:08 But we discussed that you can't really give people your things

01:12 so then we talked about how you can help other people.

01:16 And how can you help other people Sebby?

01:17 Erm...

01:18 Being kind.

01:19 Well done by being kind!

01:21 And raising money for...

01:23 Charities.

01:25 Charities.

01:26 So he started off doing one...

01:29 100 acts of kindness.

01:30 In...

01:31 In...

01:32 In...

01:33 In...

01:34 In ten...

01:35 In ten days.

01:36 Well done, yes.

01:37 He started off doing 100 acts of kindness in ten days.

01:40 So that was ten a day.

01:41 And he did it.

01:42 What was the first one we ever did, well you ever did, can you remember way back?

01:46 What was the first act of kindness you ever did?

01:49 Was it when Baz the Builder was here?

01:51 Yeah.

01:52 What did you do for Baz the Builder that started it all going?

01:55 Gave him a cup...

01:56 Kindness.

01:57 A cup of...

01:58 A cup of tea.

01:59 He then enjoyed it so much because people were so smiley and happy

02:03 and it was making people feel happy inside, wasn't it?

02:06 And how did it make you feel Sebby?

02:08 Happy inside.

02:09 That Seb said he wanted to carry on, so he carried on.

02:12 And here we are 18 months later

02:14 and Sebby's now done probably over 2000 random acts of kindness

02:18 for people he knows and stra...

02:21 Strangers.

02:22 Strangers.

02:23 We've gone from... Sebby's gone from £1000 to just under £40,000 now.

02:28 And what he wants to do, he really, really wants to do

02:31 is hit the £40,000 mark before his page...

02:35 He's just giving page closes at the end of January.

02:38 And once his page closes, hopefully if he reaches the £40,000 mark...

02:42 Yeah.

02:43 Erm...

02:44 Sebby's been awarded a World Compassion Award

02:47 by the Supreme Master Ching Hai in Taiwan

02:50 and that money is going to set up the Sebby Hall Kindness Foundation

02:54 which will then continue fundraising yearly

02:58 to continue to help organisations that look after vulnerable young people.

03:02 So Sebby, for his first event next year, wants to do a kindness run

03:06 where people are kind as they run.

03:09 So he'd like to give out flowers to people

03:12 and they can find somebody to give a flower to as they run.

03:16 But somebody has kindly donated some kindness teddies.

03:21 So Sebby would like the first 50 people who sign up for the kindness race

03:27 will be getting one of these.

03:29 Can you turn it round?

03:32 What does it say?

03:34 Kindness.

03:35 I've just received a teddy bear from Sebby.

03:38 It's absolutely lovely.

03:39 It makes you just feel so warm inside

03:42 and just so grateful that Sebby has done all these acts of kindness

03:48 and really what it means to everybody.

03:51 I've really witnessed over the last 18 months Sebby's acts of kindness

03:56 and the ripple effect that this has caused throughout his community

04:01 and with his family and friends.

04:03 And the ripple effect of kindness has just been lovely to watch.

04:07 We need £2,000.

04:11 And if you get £2,000 Sebby, what will you reach for?

04:14 £40,000.

04:17 Kindness is my superpower.

04:19 Bye.

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