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Smile, it’s summer

40 reasons to be happy right now – featuring the best free culture across the UK, how to perfect your picnic and good news from Guardian stories (including a very successful Blind Date)

25 June 2023

  • Ghofran Hamza pouring tea into the cup of George Dionysopoulos at their restaurant, Arabic Flavour, in Aberystwyth, Wales

    Happy endings: the Syrian refugee’s restaurant that you helped thrive

    Ghofran Hamza was one of 15 immigrant chefs featured in a Guardian special last year. How is she doing now?

24 June 2023

  • Michelle Dornelly in front of the Fawcett Estate Community Hall, the future site of her new Community Food Hub. Michelle Dornelly is the founder and CEO of Children With Voices and Hackney Community Food Hub in which she works full time and unpaid. The food hub provides food for up to 100,00 people. Michelle Dornelly was recently awarded a Pride of Britain award for her volunteer work.

    Happy endings: the food bank Guardian readers helped find a home

  • Head shot of Palestinian actor Mo'min Swaitat in dark blue T-shirt against white background

    Happy endings: how a treasure trove of lost Palestinian music opened up a new thread of musical history

  • Audience in deck chairs at Birmingham 2022 Victoria Square Festival Site

    Cheap thrills: the best free UK festivals of 2023

  • Blind Daters Lizzie and Liam on their wedding day

    Happy endings: the Blind Daters who got married – ‘I wanted to give her a 10, but not be too keen’

  • A birdsong app, an allergy cure and a cool glass of gavi: Alan Carr, Mary Berry, Maya Jama and others on the thing that makes their summer

  • Happy endings: the Ukrainian boy you helped to escape from a basement

  • Happy endings: our advice columnist on the columns that helped change people’s lives

  • Wasp-free barbecues and perfect campfires: how to do the UK outdoors in comfort and style (whatever the weather)

23 June 2023

  • Vanessa Hilton on her reclining bike

    Happy endings: life after being in a Guardian Experience column – ‘It restored my faith in humanity’

    Everyone who appears in our weekly column has an extraordinary story to share – for some, what came next was even more incredible

22 June 2023

  • Dining Across the Dividers Katie (on left) and Anne, sitting on a bench in the Botanic Garden in Dunoon, Scotland, UK, May 2023

    Happy endings: the Dining Across the Divide pair who became ‘soul sisters’

    When we arranged for Anne and Katie to meet, we expected them to clash on issues such as immigration. Instead, says Katie, it’s been like discovering a long-lost twin
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