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Action for Happiness
publication date: Apr 17, 2011
| Action for Happiness - a new mass movement to create a happier society - which already has 4000 members from over 65 counties. The initiative calls for people to pledge to create more happiness in the world and take positive action to promote happiness in whatever way they can - at home, at work or in the community.
For the past four years the Young Foundation has worked to understand what makes people happy. Our research on night workers, for example, shows that our 24 hour economy is not only putting people’s health at risk but also harming their psychological wellbeing as social and family ties become disrupted. |
| Earlier work on the state of happiness argued that policymakers could influence people’s wellbeing – gathering all of the international research on what mattered to people and drawing on the evidence of a series of resilience training pilots run by the Young Foundation in 24 schools. This has informed our work on neighbourliness, support for isolated older people and our new social venture Resilience.
Our most recent work to help local authorities think creatively about ageing focuses as much on how to keep over 60s mentally and socially, as well as physically, fit. And the Wellbeing and Resilience Measure aims to help us capture all the things that official statistics miss in communities – from levels of belonging to the quality of local infrastructure.
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