The Happy City Initiative was founded in 2010, by Liz & Mike Zeidler, who have been working locally and internationally on leadership, community engagement and solutions focussed development for the past 20 years. They are piloting Happy City in their home town of Bristol, ably supported by a core team of volunteers, all passionate about changing the world via much more focus on what really matters to people.  If you'd like to get involved click on the tab above, or get in touch today.

Current Core Volunteers include:  Sam Wren-Lewis, Molly O'Doherty, Tannith Perry, Toni Clews, Sean Morris, Miele Passmore, Helen Dyson, Amy Hart, Linda Broadbent, Derek Ahmedzai, Faith Harris, Steve Tucker, Lynsday Platt, Maddy Longhurst, Daniel Balla, Alison Sharman, Rkia Sayart, Fatima Rampurawlla, Juwei Jiang, 

Our Advisory Board includes: Stephen Clarke, Trenna Cormack, Dave Forman, Kyle Hannon, Sabrina Tyus-Hayes, Sam Wren-Lewis, Lycia Harper, Anthony Clark, Jayne Hathway and Kate Smith.

Some of our key active Partners are:  Miriam Akhtar at Positive Psychology Training, Mark McKergow at SFworks, Hywel George & Al Raffel at Plastic Buddha Productions, Chris Brown at Bristol 24/7 and Jay & Ali at Yoke.

Other wonderful and inspiring people who’ve helped make all this possible include:  Miriam Delogu, Caroline Oldland, Iain Stellar, Lea Viljoen, Ray Morrow, Paul Mills, Simon Postle, Kat Demeter, Alison Crowther, Anna McMullen, Eleanor Williamson, James Wallace, Majid Younis, Rob Birse, Prue Hardwick, Natasha Stanley, Richard Arnott, Jamie Dine, Ryan Wills, , Graham Huggins and Ben Smith.