#batchofkindness

[anindoorkitty]

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Happy 43rd birthday!

And congratulations on being able to fulfill your role bucket list so quickly and successfully.

With Hamlet: winning WhatsOnStage best actor award and receiving an Olivier award nomination for best actor of 2015

And with Patrick Melrose: winning BAFTA best actor award and (as producer) best limited series of 2018

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OK, fandom…Batch of Kindness 2017 is go! Tweet your acts of kindness, big or small, with the hashtag #batchofkindness, until it's no longer July 19 anywhere in the world! 🎉🌍❤️ (And then, as is hopefully obvious, keep being kind every day 😄)

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"Do you really need the ch--" "Shut up, Sherlock." Batch of Kindness 2017 is off to a great start! As of the afternoon of 20 June, 121 people in 33 countries have pledged to participate in the fandom's 4th annual kindness day in celebration of Benedict Cumberbatch's birthday. Find out more at batchofkindness.com. ❤️

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Join the Sherlock and Benedict Cumberbatch fandom as we celebrate our 4th annual Batch of Kindness day on Benedict’s birthday (July 19)! It’s fun and free! Find out more at batchofkindness.com, and fill out the form on the home page if you would like to be added to the running total of participants. Don’t forget we reset the counter at 0 every year, so even if you’re participated before, we want to know you’re planning to do so again in 2017! Signing up takes 15-20 seconds and you don’t need to give any more information than you’re comfortable giving. Just a “yes” and “I’m participating in [continent]” is enough if you like!

Reblogs and signal boosts are appreciated, because there are still people signing up who say this year is the first they’ve heard of it. So let’s get the word out if we can, although frankly, even if we don’t go over 393 people, that’s pretty amazing! :) Follow @batchofkindness for further updates, and find me on Twitter at the same handle. 

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Batch of Kindness 2017!

For the past three years, fans of Benedict Cumberbatch across the globe joined together to perform acts of kindness in celebration of the actor's July 19 birthday. The campaign was prompted by the words of the actor himself in a 2013 thank you letter to the fans, quoted below: "...it may be cheeky after such efforts and generosity...but could I make a request? Could you please put the time and energy, money and effort you put into those gifts, cards and messages to me into doing good for someone else?...it doesn’t have to be money, perhaps it’s just a bit of your time or a simple gesture of kindness...anyway if it makes me sound ungrateful for what you gave me please forgive my rudeness. I simply think if the number of people who threw love my way did so to people that need it far more than me, that would be a wonderful feeling for us all to have on my birthday."

Each year, the Batch of Kindness acts are compiled and bound into a colorful booklet and sent off to Benedict's agency in London. Of the 2014 booklet, Benedict said in a statement tweeted by the agency: "I was soo moved by the money raised and all your ‘Batch Of Kindness’ stories… As I think it was called… Silly names aside the deeds were marvellous, imaginative and so generous. Thank you B- x" So, are we ready for another go? July 19 has become an incredible day of positivity and love for those who have participated. Sign up at batchofkindness.com by clicking on the “Participating this year?” button and completing the short form (it takes 5 seconds!). Join the fun as we come together as a fandom to make the world a little brighter! <3

[batchofkindness]

Join the Sherlock and Benedict Cumberbatch fandom as we celebrate our 4th annual Batch of Kindness day on Benedict’s birthday! It’s fun and free! Find out more at batchofkindness.com, and fill out the form on the home page if you would like to be added to the running total of participants. 

Reblogs and signal boosts are appreciated! :) Follow @batchofkindness for further updates. 

[batchofkindness]

Join the Sherlock and Benedict Cumberbatch fandom as we celebrate our 4th annual Batch of Kindness day on Benedict’s birthday (July 19)! It’s fun and free! Find out more at batchofkindness.com, and fill out the form on the home page if you would like to be added to the running total of participants. Don’t forget we reset the counter at 0 every year, so even if you’re participated before, we want to know you’re planning to do so again in 2017! Signing up takes 15-20 seconds and you don’t need to give any more information than you’re comfortable giving. Just a “yes” and “I’m participating in [continent]” is enough if you like!

Reblogs and signal boosts are appreciated! Follow @batchofkindness for further updates, and find me on Twitter at the same handle.

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Sherlock attempts to use CroBaby Magic to summon responses from a few new countries... Kindness! Benedict Cumberbatch! Sherlock! Fandom! Birthday! Curious? Check it out at batchofkindness.com. Guaranteed to be a fun-filled fandom day!