A map of small good things
The Small Act is a free map where people log the small good things they do every day. Pick up a piece of litter. Hold a door. Leave a kind note. Drop a pin. Watch the country light up.
It doesn’t have to be big. Pick up a piece of litter. Let someone out in traffic. Leave a kind note. Buy a stranger a coffee. Whatever felt right today.
A sentence or two. Roughly where. Your name if you want it. That’s it. No account, no email, no faff.
Your pin joins thousands of others on the map. Small acts, everywhere, every day. It all adds up to something worth seeing.
“Picked up someones dropped glove and hung it on a fence.”
Someone nearby, Cambridge · 5 hours ago
View on map →Why this exists
On a walk in the park with a close friend, I picked up a discarded bag and put it in a bin. Then I couldn’t stop doing the maths. If everyone in the UK picked up one piece a day, that’s sixty million pieces. Every day. So I built a map.
Most good things are ninety-second things. They mostly go unnoticed. Not here.