Action for Happiness is a movement for positive social change which aims to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. It hopes to inspire a mass movement for fundamental cultural change and enable people to take positive actions in their personal lives, homes, schools, workplaces and communities.

Begun in 2010 by Young Foundation Chief Executive Geoff Mulgan, Richard Layard and Anthony Seldon, and housed in the Young Foundation, Action for Happiness will launch in Spring 2011. It already has over 3000 members signed up from over 50 different countries.

Members of the Action for Happiness movement want to see a society that prioritises people's overall wellbeing, not just economic growth. They want less focus on self-obsessed, materialistic behaviour and more emphasis on collaborative ways of living which value positive relationships, trust and altruism.

In practice Action for Happiness hopes to inspire and enable the move to a happier society by:

• Being a trusted source of information to explain why happiness matters, what the latest research tells us and what a happier society would look like;

• Inspiring people to join the movement and make a commitment to helping build a happier society in the way they live their lives;

• Enabling individuals, organisations and community groups to take positive action in their personal lives, homes, schools, workplaces and communities

• Putting happiness and well-being at the heart of public debate in our society.

For more information see www.actionforhappiness.org.

You can also follow Action for Happiness on Facebook and Twitter.