Nominations open for The Independent on Sunday’s Happy List
Howard Lake | 11 March 2012 | News
The Independent on Sunday is once again seeking nominations for its Happy List, the newspaper’s “antidote to all those rich lists, wealth lists and celebrity lists” which “honours a different set of values”.
The list aims to feature 100 people who make Britain “a better, more well-adjusted, and happier place”. Not surprisingly, this can include fundraisers, volunteers, charity leaders and all kinds of people in and around the charity/voluntary sector, the arts/cultural sector, social enterprise, and the public sector.
Those who have appeared on previous lists – this is the fifth year of the Happy List – have included inspirational teachers, inventors, women who have fostered and hundreds of children.
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The newspaper suggests that nominations could be quite wide ranging, from a doctor or midwife, to a comedian, artist, musician, or someone who has battled to save part of Britain’s heritage or countryside. The key element is that they must not be a celebrity, and their motive must be “human happiness, rather than feathering their own nest”.
How to nominate for The Independent on Sunday Happy List
The charity sector alone should throw up a very long list of names, but you have to nominate them. To do so, just send a few details about them and the reason you are nominating them to su***********@in*********.uk, (“no attachments, please”), or, by post, to: IoS Happy List, Letters editor, Independent on Sunday, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5HF.
You can read The Independent’s 2011 Happy List.
More on honours for good work
- Free support to boost recognition of LGBTQ activists (18 June 2021)
- OBE for Mark Astarita, British Red Cross Director of Fundraising (13 June 2015)
- Deadline extended for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Volunteering Awards 2012 (7 September 2012)
- How to nominate someone for a MBE honour? (31 August 2017)
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.