Whether you're swimming the English Channel or just running around a track, the media love to cover sponsored events like these, so don't forget to call your local paper and television stations. The more exposure you receive for your sponsored event, the more fundraising you'll accomplish!

You don't have to have an extremely popular blog to work with a paid blogging company - all you have to do is sign up and specify the type of companies you would like to blog about. Then, when companies sign up who match your specifications, you will be offered a fee to write a blog entry about their business. This money can be donated directly to your fundraising cause.

When you work with a paid blogging company (or when you accept paid blog entries on your own), you always have the flexibility to accept or deny any offer. If you receive a paid blogging offer from a company you don't like, or that doesn't fit with the concept of your blog, you can refuse that particular offer.

Once you've received permission, pick an activity suitable for the number of co-workers in your office and get started! By doing something fun and making the work day different for your co-workers, your fundraising efforts will surely be rewarded.

Coffee mornings are easy to organise and can be held nearly anywhere, including your home or workplace. To get started, invite friends and neighbours to your event. They'll each make a small donation in return for coffee, biscuits and cakes. It's convenient, easy and fun, people are willing to attend these events often. You can even make it a weekly event in your community or workplace.

Employees love work days when they can deviate from the corporate dress code. When you schedule a dress down day, workers gladly pay a small donation, usually a pound, and are allowed to wear their own clothes into work.

Fancy dress days are even more exciting in an office environment. For a small fundraising donation, workers are allowed to come to work in a costume. Don't forget to award prizes at lunchtime for the top outfits, giving away small, inexpensive prizes like bottles of wine or boxes of sweets for the funniest, most creative and scariest costumes.

Face painting is also the perfect activity for Halloween. Children will love it and so will your charity!

Why not put a twist on traditional dress up days by having a cross-dressing day? Ask the men to wear high heels, dresses and wigs and let the women wear suits or baggy shirts and trousers. Just watching the male employees try to walk in high heels will be enough to keep your co-workers and customers thoroughly entertained all day long.

Exotic trips are not for fundraising lightweights - you often must raise several thousand pounds to pay for your trip before any fundraising profits are made. However, fundraising trips can be an exceptional personal challenge and great exposure for your fundraising cause too.

There are thousands of options for fundraising trips, depending on your interests. You can travel by bike, horse, canoe, or trek on foot; you can climb mountains, cross deserts, or explore rainforests.

The fundraising trip you decide on is a choice unique to you and your charity, and the opportunity to go anywhere in the world is tempting.

First, talk with your local school or community centre about using their space for the day. They might even donate the use of their premises, which is money saved for your fundraising!

Fun fairs typically have games, vendors, food and rides. You can create a lot of these stalls yourself and staff them with volunteers.

You can also ask local businesses, particularly restaurants and shops, to donate their time and services towards your cause. By networking with these businesses, they'll get great community exposure at the fun fair, and in turn your fundraising cause can negotiate to receive a share of the profits they make. Don't forget to ask vendors to donate some prizes for your game stalls, too!

Ride rental is the main expense of running a community fun fair. You can recoup the costs of ride rentals with the money you raise from admission fees and games. The rest of the income from the fun fair is your fundraising profit.

You or your co-workers can bring in items to serve as prizes, or you can work with a local business to give away a larger prize or gift voucher. You can even ask a local restaurant to provide a free dinner for the winner. It's great exposure for the businesses involved and you'll also raise a good bit of money for your fundraising cause! Please be aware of local licensing laws, contact your local government for details.

Although you're using the Internet to market your fundraising endeavour, you don't have to carry out a specific activity online. All you need to do is make people aware of your cause and give them a way to donate.

Similarly, you can round up your co-workers and ask them to make other pledges in the workplace, with your fundraising cause benefiting. For example, you could pledge to give up smoking or chocolate, and your co-workers could sponsor you for how long they think you'll last without your vices. However, if you're caught cheating, you have to make a big donation to your own fundraising cause!

To make it a bit more unusual, instead of selling products to the highest bidder like one would expect from an auction, your bosses and co-workers can volunteer to do tasks for the highest bidder. For example, a manager might promise to make breakfast for a week, and the highest bidder wins this prize.

You can auction off prizes and other items too, but watching your boss serve breakfast or lunch will be the hit of your fundraising work, guaranteed!

Why not even get your organisation up on the auctions here online at Rent A Date For Charity have a competition too to see which one of them will get the highest bids?