Try to pop along to a fête or fair happening near you, because supporting local events in your area helps build local networks, relationships and, ultimately, community.

Fêtes and fairs are potentially really Generous happenings. They signify an amazing investment of social capital. As well as the connections and conversations, the fun and games, you might even pick up a bargain and a yummy cake, too – and all the money you spend contributes to your local economy.

So, as the summer hots up, we say: it’s time to get your local fête or fair buzzing – by being there if you can, and then telling us about it on Generous and Flickr-ing your photos as well*.

*When you’re doing Generous actions why not capture them on camera and upload the results to www.flickr.com? That way we get a fuller sense of our community activity, at the same time as adding more visual interest to our homemade website!

*In order for the Generous site to find your images and magically draw them in from Flickr, you’ll need to ‘tag’ them a certain way. So, any photo you upload relevant to a particular Generous action will need to be tagged with “livinggenerously:action=X” where X is the ID number of the action.

For example, for Give something away and declutter your life, the tag would be: livinggenerously:action=44 and for this action it would be livinggenerously:action=197

Go on! Show us just how Generous you are!

Flickr photo source – thanks Anguskirk