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Happy City – the fastest growing visionary habitat in the world

Excitement and vigour are high - and so is the will to grow and expand. By Maxie Jost. Alongside the ongoing buzz of local activities and events, with hardly any... read more →

Business support for Happy City

One of the most heartening experiences for a charity like Happy City, which succeeds in doing much from very scant resources, is a robust demonstration of support from the local... read more →

Collaboration vs Competition

Competition is bad for us says Margaret Heffernan Margaret Heffernan offered some startling observations as she talked about her book 'A Bigger Prize' at Bristol's Festival of Ideas this week.  She stopped... read more →

Running the Ways

How an ultramarathon brought one volunteer happiness Two weeks ago I lined up at the start line of the Marathon des Sables, a 250km race across the Sahara billed as... read more →

Tuning the Economy for Wellbeing

Today, the Legatum Institute has added its weight to the growing body of evidence that measures of wellbeing should be placed at the heart of policy-making and economy. The Wellbeing and... read more →

Happiness in 3D

Happiness is not as abstract as it seems... From the outset of our Happy City journey, people have asked how we define happiness. As a result, we've had a great... read more →

Changing your brain in 2014

Two weeks into January and maybe it's already unpopular to be mentioning the R word. Even if we reject the idea of making firm resolutions, the New Year is often... read more →

Banking, but not as you know it

On a sunny Saturday afternoon in Bristol, where would you find an energy management charity, social housing company whose customers have learning disabilities, Boris’ ‘food tzar’ and a charity campaigning... read more →
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Five Ways for Walking Group

Centre for Thriving Places worked with Walk for Life in 2013 to develop a set of materials and workshops to support the many local walking groups around the country to... read more →
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Focussed Groups

the magic of a few good brains Your brain has about 200 billion neurons, linked by trillions of synapses which power thinking (and 'unthinking') processes at a rate equivalent to... read more →
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