What's to be gained by Fun-d Raising?

Altruism Helps 

Fun-draisers are a Tonbridge based collective seeking to raise awareness of alturistic giving. Why?  Being altruistic is about reaching out to help others. What is good about this? By practicing altruism it is not only the person being helped that benefits but the person doing the helping also gains.

Fun-dRaisers help others by arranging events that are designed to create awareness of different charities and causes whilst raising valuable funds for them. Some of these causes are local, some national and some international.

Reaching out a hand to help someone is one of the greatest gifts that you can give. But the gift that you receive in return by giving back and helping others is both immense and priceless. 

Come and join us at one of the events if you can, follow our blog, or organise your own events. 

Empathy Helps 

Every thought and action, 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 then 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 behavior, 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. All of this means you get the chance to develop stronger bonds with one another and this will hopefully lead to stronger communities. Go on give it a go!!! 

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