# Nominations open for The Independent on Sunday’s Happy List

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/03/11/nominations-open-independent-sunday039s-happy-list/
- Published: 2012-03-11T19:05:08+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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***********@************co.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](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-iiosi-happy-list-2011--the-100-2280696.html).

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