We are co hosting a series of workshops to help communities across Wales develop their own priorities, plans and actions, and we are inviting an initial cohort of participants to join this Wales-wide learning journey.
Events, Forums & Publications
Mae Wellbeing Economy Cymru yn dod â’r bobl a’r sefydliadau sy’n cyd-greu economi llesiant Cymru ynghyd.
Drwy ein cynhadledd flynyddol, ein fforymau ar-lein, ein papurau a’n cyhoeddiadau, rydym yn stiwardio cyfeiriad teithio cyffredin ar gyfer mudiad Economi Llesiant Cymru.
Wellbeing Economy Cymru brings together the people and organisations who are co-creating Wales’ wellbeing economy.
Through our annual conference, our online forums, our papers and publications, we are stewarding a shared direction of travel for Wales’ Wellbeing Economy movement.
Youth Climate Ambassadors on COP26
The Wellbeing Economy Alliance for Wales meets on a regular basis every month to have different discussions and conversations about all sorts of topics related to how we can build an economy and a society that serves the wellbeing of people and places and the planet....
Business with a purpose
At our Wellbeing Economy Forum on 11th November 2021, we were delighted to welcome Andy Middleton, CEO of TYF Adventure in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, to come and speak about his passion: transformative action to address the reality of 21st century challenges. Click...
Local Doughnuts
If you're interested in how the doughnut economics framework, and the concept of a "wellbeing economy", can empower change at a local level, you're in the right place! Here in Wales, we are forming a "coalition of the willing" - a tribe of "doughnut pushers" - who...
Delivering Wellbeing with Doughnut Economics – upcoming event
Interested in creating economies that are regenerative and distributive in design? Join us at this Doughnut Economics event for Wales! 14th September 2021, 11am-1pm via Zoom REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE What is "doughnut economics" and how does it relate to Wales'...
Measuring a Wellbeing Economy in Wales
Wellbeing Economy Wales is embarking on a volunteer-led project to create the Wales Wellbeing Economy Index – a visualisation of relevant and meaningful data that frames the wellbeing economy in a way that everyone can understand. It’s part of a wider mission to...
UK petition demands a shift to a Wellbeing Economy
A petition campaign is underway in the UK, demanding that the government at Westminster prioritises a shift to a Wellbeing Economy. Launched by Brighton campaigner Laura Sharples, the petition seeks to garner 100,000 signatures by September so that the need for a...
What makes a Wellbeing Economy Employer?
What makes a Wellbeing Economy Employer? Dawn Lyle from 4theRegion talks to Alwen Williams and her team from the North Wales Economic Ambition Board, about their team charter and their commitment to the wellbeing of people and the environment, at every level....
Wellbeing Economy Election Hustings for Wales Senedd 2021
Wales' Wellbeing Economy Alliance hosted an online election hustings event, chaired by two of Wales' Youth Climate Ambassadors, to hold national political candidates to account ahead of the upcoming Senedd elections. With the Senedd elections less than one month away,...
Manifesto for the Future
With less than 200 days to go until the Senedd Election, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales Sophie Howe has launched her ‘Manifesto for the Future’, providing key recommendations that Sophie believes all political parties should consider within their manifesto...
Wales joins Wellbeing Economy Governments partnership
The Welsh Government has announced its official membership of the Wellbeing Economy Governments (WEGo) partnership. In a statement by Jane Hutt, Deputy Minister and Chief Whip, the government said: “Covid-19 has dramatically changed our lives and will have a lasting...
Welsh wellbeing – where we need to go from here
Citizens must be brought into the discussion if we are to move towards a sustainable Welsh economy, writes Duncan Fisher The moment for the ascendancy of wellbeing economics in Wales has come. What next in Wales? In the previous three articles on wellbeing economics,...
Wellbeing worldbeaters: New Zealand, Scotland and Iceland
Duncan Fisher explores how New Zealand’s, Scotland’s and Iceland’s approach to the economy is attempting to make their citizens happier. In two earlier posts, I have made the case for developed country Governments who want to stay in power through democratic means, to...
Beyond GDP – Welcome to Wellbeing
Duncan Fisher argues that measuring Gross Domestic Product is flawed and we must embrace a new economics by adopting the ‘doughnut’ In my first post, I described the lack of correlation between GDP and measures of happiness and the significant correlation between...
Unhappiness threatens our democracies and the data proves it
We will see the continued rise of populism unless we ditch the GDP obsession and change tack to wellbeing economics, argues Duncan Fisher This is the first article in a series exploring why misery drives populism and why moving to wellbeing economics is the answer....