Let’s Start Talking About Caring People

It’s hard work trying to get a decent reference these days.

In care, it’s even harder. Not because people don’t deserve them (far from it) but because the legal and HR red tape has made references feel cold, formal, and, frankly, a bit lifeless. They’re often reduced to: “Yes, they worked here. Yes, they turned up.”

That might tick a box, but it doesn’t tell a story.
It doesn’t show who someone is.
It doesn’t capture the small moments of kindness, humour, creativity, and heart that make caring people who they are.

And that’s exactly why we created Peopleoo.

Because why should recognition be saved for the end of a job? Or filtered through legal departments?
Why can’t we celebrate someone’s impact, anytime, any day?

A Special Mention is exactly what it sounds like, short, simple, meaningful words that shine a light on the everyday magic caring people bring.

Like the time Jenny, a carer, sat with a grumpy father-in-law telling him hilarious jokes until he cracked a smile and said she reminded him of his sister.

Or the nursery assistant who placed a box of sea creatures at the front door so a mum could drop off her autistic son in five minutes instead of the usual forty-five.

Or Rita, a home carer, who noticed her clients missed watching the birds in their garden, so she set up bird feeders outside their windows to see their feathered friends again.

These aren’t headlines. They’re not part of a strategy or a KPI. But they matter.
They’re proof of what care really is.

Peopleoo is for those moments! The ones that often go unnoticed but make all the difference. Anyone can write one: a colleague, a family member, a visitor, a stranger who saw something beautiful in passing.

It only takes a few seconds, but the impact? Huge.
Because caring people don’t always hear what they’re doing right.
They hear the complaints, the “not quite enoughs”, the endless standards to meet.

So let’s change that. Let’s start talking about caring people, properly, proudly and publicly.
Let’s give them the spotlight they rarely get but absolutely deserve.

📣 Write a Special Mention today.
Tell the story. Share the moment.
Because care is full of goodness, we just need to start saying it out loud.