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Finding a Happier Balance for the Budget

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It's highly appropriate that George Osborne announces his budget on the United Nations International Day of Happiness. The UN celebration is rooted in the idea of Gross National Happiness – the indicator which looks likely to succeed GDP as our preferred measure of prosperity.

See Bristol Happy

Welcome to Happy City’s brand new campaign See Bristol Happy!


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Light Box: The Happiness Project

Aspect of Happiness: 
Community Building
Learning
Other (please specify)
Other (please specify): 
creativity
Where?: 
BS1
For who?: 
Everyone
What's it's purpose: 
Our work reduces mental health stigma, increases resilience and helps people to make tangible improvements to their lives. Light Box presents mental health in a whole new light: as an exciting, empowering, social phenomenon, an act of creation, and a continuum on which we’re all placed.

 

Top Tip: 
Attitude needed
Top Tip details: 
We would have benefitted from knowing that community rojects like ours require years of building, getting better, more refined, that it's an ongoing process to be constantly engaged in. It's never complete, always moving, and we've learnt to love this.
When?: 
Ongoing now
For more information
Where whould others go to find out more about this solution?
Address: 
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