Ask your co-workers for their change as they leave each day.

• Send round a running total, nothing motivates like progress.
• If you have a large meetings or work socials – take your collection box along.
• Get visitors to donate too.

Why not contact your local shopping centre or theatre and see if they will allow you to hold a collection? You will be amazed at how generous people can be, and your hard work will improve the lives of the estimated 3 million Haitians in desperate need of aid.

Secretly most people know that they’ll never get their spare change to the bank. Explain how these tiny coins can make a difference, not just collect dust.

• Ask your employer to give matched donations, this will really motivate people.
• Get office departments to compete against each other. Who can weigh in with the biggest change collection?
• This idea will work just as well outside of work – for example at church or at a school fete.

• Try and include a savory option - not everyone has a sweet tooth.
• Try and increase the number of bakers you can recruit by sending round recipes in advance.
• Boost your collection with a buy-two-get-one-free offer.
• (And we wouldn't be Oxfam if we didn't encourage you to use Fair Trade ingredients where possible).

Invite your friends over for a movie, and ask them to donate the money that they would have spent to help people in Haiti. The following tips will make the most of this fundraising opportunity:

• Gift Aid it! Remember to ask everyone who pays UK tax to tick the gift aid box on our sponsorship form. This will increase their donation by nearly a third.
• Remember to have an interval – and sell your guests popcorn and ice cream.
• If you’re inviting real film buffs, you could put on a film quiz after the movie - and charge a small entry fee.

Get permission for everyone at work to wear their jeans on a Friday, and ask them to pay £1 for the privilege. So your office already wears jeans? How about football tops instead?

• Offer a prize for the best effort.
• Fine people who don't take part.
• Organise a football forecast competition for the weekend’s matches: £5 to enter, £20 to the winner.

There are all sorts of ideas that have made money for Oxfam in the past. And just to prove it's worth going the extra mile, here’s a £115 example.