Happy City Initiative

Happy City Initiative is about happiness becoming the aim of life across Bristol. It helps us shift from bad news, fear and consumption to celebrating and spreading success and creating caring, connected communities. It brings people, ideas and resources together through events, campaigning and online so happiness flourishes in every corner of the city. Working with people where they live, we help people to direct their attention towards the detail of successful solutions to build on rather than the problems themselves. We help people appreciate the power of their language to make collaboration easier, the magic of difference to learn from each other, and the way systems work to spread our influence in making the city a better place. Taken with an invitation to talk about ‘what matters’ (the ingredients of happiness), these shifts in thinking and perception create possibilities for transformative change, using what already exists in the city.