Lifting Letters | The Perfect Strangers Project

Support for friends and family used to involve moments of connection over coffee and cake, in cafes and on couches, and with lovingly competitive scrabble rivalry, but these days that might not be possible for everyone who needs it. Perfect Strangers is a project of old-fashioned gestures, and we've always believed that receiving something friendly in the post can work wonders.

A year after first starting lifting letters, we're still worried about people going through tough times or people who might be isolating or feeling lonely. We'd like to send lifting letters to these people. Over a hundred of you marvellous lot signed up to write them last year, which was beautiful and far more than we had imagined, in the best possible way.

If you'd like to write some letters to cheer someone up, please do help out. The human connection is the important thing; they don't have to be long, they don't have to be meaningful, and you don't have to worry about finding the perfect thing to say. There's also no expectation of a reply.

If you'd like to take part in this, you can sign up to send letters here or by logging into your profile and under the section titled "Lifting Letters."

If you'd like to suggest a recipient of these lifting letters, you can enter their details below. This person can be you. If it's not you, you'll need to get their consent to share their details of course. See our legal and technical notes below:

Submit a recipient for lifting letters

What is your email address?

Confirm your email address:

Who is the recipient?

What's the recipient's address?

At most, how many letters should they receive? We'll otherwise send up to three and will stop after a few weeks.

(Optional) Any other details of the recipient, or advice on what to write (or not to write)? A few words can help the letter writer craft the right kind of message.

(Optional) We won't share the recipients email with anyone, only for verification if they contact us.

This field should be left blank to filter out automated spammers (and should be invisible to anyone but a machine really, so you shouldn't be seeing this)

By pressing submit, I confirm that I have the consent of the recipient to share their details and I understand that sharing information for the purposes of harassment is a crime according to Crown Prosecution Service guidelines.

Note that unless you're taking part in the next swap or you're an existing user (with your account confirmed and verified with a debit/credit card that matches your own postcode), we may need to ask for additional verification for safety purposes.