So yesterday Emma from the Trinity Centre, Jo from the love of it and lovely volunteer Kat (who found us through Happy City), spent the afternoon giving out free cakes in Castle Park in Bristol to kick start Pay it Forward Week.
We made a video to celebrate all that was awesome about our Green Man treasure hunt and the shiny happy people who took part. It makes us go all smily every time we watch it.
team love of it have returned triumphant (if a little bedraggled) from the Green Man festival in the Brecon Beacons. Despite torrential rain, around 90 muddy people took part in our photo treasure hunt in Einstein’s Garden over the three days.
Our good friends at the Touchwood Project in Orkney are organising thePower Off Weekend III on Fri 18 June – Sun 20 June: that’s 48 hours without electricity but with friends, games, candles and woolly hats.
the love of it started, as all good ideas do, with a list. I was visiting my brother in Japan this September and as you do when you’re far from home, pondering on what you should do with yourself when you get home and spending a lot of time on trains, I wrote down a list of everything I loved doing: road trips, wild swimming, picnics, telling stories, playing Scrabble, nightwalking and star gazing, climbing hills and camping, spending time with friends. It dawned on me that there wasn’t one single place that brought all these things together – so I decided to make one! Since then things have kind of snowballed. Read More »
To celebrate the launch of Light Box’s Happiness Project, we’d like to challenge you all to draw a blind self-portrait. Look in a mirror or sit opposite a friend and just start sketching. Use pen or crayons, glue and glitter, finger paint, make a collage, make a mess. There are no rules. No, wait, there is one rule – don’t, whatever you do, look at your paper! Read More »
There have been reports of settling, even drifting, and you know what that means…? Tomorrow is a SNOW DAY! To celebrate, the love of it challenges you to build the most imaginative snow creatures and sculptures the world has ever seen. We want to see your snow zombies, snow monsters, snowy replicas of Jon Snow… oh and we want to see your snow forts, impenetrable snow forts. And castles. Read More »
Making a monster is child’s play. Follow our guide to making cuddly creatures out of fabric scraps or an old scarf, turn a teddy bear inside out then sew him back up again, or get splicing and sew the head and neck of a beanie giraffe onto a penguin’s body. Swap your monster with a friend and send us a photo of the little critter in his/her new home. Read More »
Indoor Picnic at Bristol’s Trinity Centre this Saturday!
This Saturday, our friends at the Trinity Centre in Old Market, Bristol will be hosting an indoor picnic. Read More »