Cake sales are absolute guaranteed money spinners. Bake some cakes, decorate with funny faces or patterns and tout them round during your coffee-break. Your colleagues should willingly part with hard cash for a tasty treat, which ought to make your fundraising a piece of cake. Literally.

£100 could pay for 33 hot, nutritious meals at a luncheon club where older people who live on their own go to socialise so that they feel less lonely.