Dear neighbour, how are you keeping?

Plenty of people go days without a proper conversation. Some are in their eighties and live alone. Some are fifteen and find it easier to write than to talk. Kind Regards introduces them to each other, one envelope at a time. There is no app, no feed and no pressure to be clever. Just good paper, a stamp we pay for, and the small thrill of a handwritten name on the doormat.

Loneliness is quiet. So is a letter, until you open it.

How it works

Small numbers. Big envelopes.

How the programme is designed to work. These are illustrative design figures for a fictional charity, not reported results.

letter a month. That is the whole commitment.

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Two airmail envelopes with red and blue striped edges on a white background

home addresses shared. Every letter travels through our office.

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A wax seal and its brass stamp resting on handmade paper

sets of eyes on each letter before it goes back in the post.

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A red pillar post box on a quiet street

Overheard in the postbag.

Lines shared with permission by imagined pen pals. Names are fictional and photographs are illustrative.

Margaret, 84

“Sami asked what school was like when I was twelve. I wrote four pages. I haven’t written four pages of anything since 1979.”

Writing to Sami, 12

An older woman writing at a round wooden table beneath a warm hanging lamp

Sami, 12

“I told her my football team lost nine games in a row. She wrote back: so did mine, in 1958. We are both hoping for a better season.”

Writing to Margaret, 84

A boy writing in a notebook at a wooden desk beside a stack of books

Priya, 31

“I am not a letter person. Then Edith sent me a recipe for lemon cake with a note in the margin: do not skip the zest. I did not skip the zest.”

Writing to Edith, 91

A young woman reading a handwritten card

Four ways to pick up a pen.

A red pillar post box on a quiet street

Become a pen pal and write once a month to someone you have not met yet. We handle the matching and the stamps.

Write a letter

Join the volunteers who read letters before they travel, check that everything is kind and safe, and add a fresh stamp.

Read the post

Letter afternoons, card circles and the occasional cake. Meet other writers and fill a few envelopes together.

Come to tea

Every letter costs us postage twice, there and back. A small regular gift keeps the conversation moving.

Fund the stamps

A short letter from us, once a month: a favourite line from the postbag, upcoming gatherings and the occasional request for stamps.

One email a month. Unsubscribe whenever you like. This sample form belongs to a fictional charity.

The Monthly Envelope.

A handwritten note tucked into a kraft envelope on a wooden desk beside ink and scissorsSend me the envelope