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« Previous EntriesDo you have £1,250 and want to invest in SFHP?
Friday, January 29th, 2010With the socks being shipped over right now it’s time to promote the 3 micro-investment opportunities we have left. For £1,250 you can become a shareholder in Socks for Happy People and amongst other things receive 10 pairs of our socks a year for life!
People have been so enthusiastic and supportive while we’ve been [...]
I’m in with the Mob in London…And they love socks!
Thursday, January 14th, 2010To become part of the Mob at this time of the year you first have to admit that you don’t know the meaning of the word cold! Come on…admit it!
I know I certainly didn’t.
The Mob know you probably suffer a downturn in temperature and a covering of snow (once the initial novelty passes) as [...]
Thank goodness for the global finacial crisis!
Friday, November 6th, 2009The financial crisis really has been the best thing our premium quality sock company could have hoped for!
This video brilliantly explains why, and gives you glimpse at the soul of Socks for Happy People.
When we started 3 years ago we dreamed of bringing about a positive shift in the world towards the values we [...]
You buy one pair, and you give another pair for free!
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009We’re very proud to announce Socks for Happy People’s ‘Buy One Give One Free!’ initiative. The scheme ensures we all make a genuine difference to others with every pair of Socks for Happy People we get our feet into!
It’s really simple. Whenever you buy a pair of our Socks for Happy People, you also buy [...]
Climate change makes us smile!
Thursday, October 15th, 2009I’m assuming there will be a lot of brilliant people writing great blog-posts today about the important need to limit or reverse climate change for Blog Action Day 09 (see below for some we’ve read and liked). So I thought I’d take a different tack based on realisations and research I have happened upon recently [...]
Fitter. Happier. More Productive.
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Just thought I’d share a tiny snippet of the article I’ve been writing (or procrastinating about) recently. It’s titled ‘Fitter. Happier. More Productive: How Authentic happiness is in vogue’, and it begins like this…
Happiness has never been so vogue. That is, authentic happiness has never been so vogue.
Of course, we’ve always strived for happiness [...]
Well done you lovely bankers!
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Any other reasons to love The Co-op? A bit of feedback on my outfit? Ways in which you’ve brought a smile to the bank managers day? Things you’d like to see us film with our new Flip video camera? Leave them all below by clicking comment…
Do as we do and vote for PACT! And QUICK!!
Thursday, September 10th, 2009There’s no time to tell you just how cool Pact pants are, how socially responsible the company is and how snazzy their website it just now. You just have to go and vote for them here, now! Trust us! Takes two minutes and you’ll learn more about them in the process.
Thanks in advance ladies and [...]
Is measuring a nations wellbeing in GDP a bit…well, gross?
Friday, August 21st, 2009Finally a refreshingly different way of measuring human progress!
The good people at the New Ecconomics Foundation (NEF) have created the ‘Happy Planet Index’ (HPI) which moves beyond the crude measurement and ranking of nations on national income, or Gross Domestic Product (GDP), to chart progress of nations based on the amount of the Earth’s resources [...]
Smile more! Cos I’m your boss and I say so…
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009So, accepting that on some level we all know smiling is infectious (there are even studies that prove as much), this video brings about interesting questions on the authenticity and the ethics behind smiling. At least it does with me anyway…
Having workers monitored to ensure they smile more somehow feels a little dogmatic, doesn’t it?
Yet, [...]