Chatty Benches

Prompting everyone to share friendly greetings...

Attaching a friendly sign (aka chatty bench or happy to chat sign) to an existing or new outdoor public seat is a good way to encourage social engagement.

We have designed our own friendly signs (suitable for benches and tables etc.) as shown in the below image and we simply encourage charities and agencies with a health and wellness brief to create and distribute similar friendly signs.

Our friendly signs promote friendly gestures (smiles and hellos that can lead onto chatting) that help to make a more friendly and healthy community. Our signs should appeal to everyone supportive of building more friendly and healthy communities.

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We urge authorities to support having such friendly signs attached to selected outdoor public benches. The friendly signs are small (business card size) but they make a big difference for good (prompting friendly gestures that make neighbourhoods more friendly and healthy). Supporters are encouraged to implement the concept within their own neighbourhoods (please retain our web address to spread the concept).

BBC Wales feature on happy to chat benches. (19th Oct 2019)

BBC feature on happy to chat benches in Jersey. (19th Dec 2019)

BBC feature on happy benches in Yorkshire, UK. (11th Jan 2020)

BBC feature on happy benches in Northern Ireland. (7th Jul 2021)

How Anchor, a UK retirement housing charity are encouraging chatty benches. (12th Jun 2024)

Blog posting supporting happy to chat benches. (22 Oct 2019)

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