This year’s World Happiness Report focuses on social media and its effects on happiness, especially among young people. It is a topic that looks very different depending on where you are in the world. To get a ground-level perspective from Kenya, we spoke with the team at the Shamiri Institute, an NGO bringing mental health […]
In 2025 we published research showing some charities are 1,000x more impactful than others in the World Happiness Report. It didn’t go how we expected. Reflections one year on from our World Happiness Report chapter We’ve just had World Happiness Day (20 March 2026). A belated happy happiness day to you, in case you missed […]
What are the Top 10 happiest countries in 2026? Our friends at the World Happiness Report have just published their 2026 rankings, based on self-reported wellbeing. Read on to learn more. Once again, the Nordic countries claim the top spots, with Finland retaining its title as the world’s happiest country. These wealthy, homogenous, high-trust states […]
In December 2025, we launched the Happier Lives Fund (HLF), the easiest way for donors to support the best charities we’ve found so far and the with one donation. How much money was raised? How much impact will it have? After finalising the disbursement of the first batch of donations to the charities, we […]
With research by us at the , Bloom Wellbeing Fund has recently released a new report providing an up to date overview of the problem of mental illness, and the best ways to solve it. Here are our top takeaways from the report, which are an edited version of the summary shown in […]
It was a fine summer’s day when Sam and I waltzed onto the plane in top hats. Yes, actual top hats. On Ryanair. The cabin crew seem somewhat bewildered, but quite honestly I’m sure they’ve seen worse. The most common questions we got from fellow travellers were if we were lost magicians. Somewhat ironically, people […]