Mid Summers Ball

Put it in your diary .... 
The date will be either 
Saturday 18th or 25th June 2011.
Venue is to be confirmed.
Raising Fun-d's for The Stroke Association.
Looking forward to the Fun xx

Event Hosts

If you have a charity or a cause that you or a group of you would like to raise money for, let Fun-d Raisers know and we will place a post here ...doesn't matter how big or small the event is.....and if you have a Just Giving page we can link it from here .


When you become an Event Host ask us for help and then others can join you in the Fun of arranging and carrying out your event.  xx

Presidential Talk

Barack Obama said ‘There’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit, but I think we should talk more positively about our empathy deficit: The ability to put ourselves in someone else’s’ shoes, to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us – the child who’s hungry, the steel-worker who’s been laid off. The family who lost the entire life that they built when the storm came to town. When you think like this, when you empathise with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers – it becomes harder not to act, harder not to help.

What's to be Gained through Fun-d Raising

Empathy Helps 

Every thought and action – and this includes acts of kindness – has a chemical impact upon your brain, and this with repetition will cause structural changes in your brain. Therefore it is not possible to be kind and not change your brain. 

This changeability of the brain is known as neuroplasticity, and it means that we are able to and can change our habits.

It Truly is Cool to be Kind

Acts of kindness stimulate increased amounts of what is known as the love hormone, oxytocin, in both the donor and the recipient. This enables us to be more trusting and confident in relation to others. Our barriers come down and with this is the increased opportunity to make connections that ordinarily we might not make. One of the benefits of having oxytocin in our bloodstreams is that it is so good at reducing fear and anxiety, especially in relation to other people and their behaviour, that it can even help us to change what could be a negative opinion about someone. Thereby turning what could be an enemy into a friend.  This increase in oxytocin brings with it the possibility of better quality relationships and an improvement to our mental and emotional health.

Ref. Hamilton Dr David R. (2010).Why kindness is good for you.  Hay House. London

Welcome to Fun-d Raisers!!!

Just learning and working my way round this blog space.....xx