Why not organise your own event to raise money. Here are some ideas:

- Hold an office auction. You could bid for: a week of dressing down, the use of the boss' office for a day or a day off...!

- Set up a swear box at work.

- Sponsor the boss to work on reception for an hour.

- Take on colleagues 'tricky' phone calls - £1 a go!

- Dress down day or mad hair day etc.

- A sponsored bike ride without leaving the office - set up an exercise bike and staff can take it in turns to cycle an agreed amount of miles.

- Hold a dance or aerobics class in the lunch hour or after work and charge all participants for the privilege.

- Organise a raffle at work.

- Organise a bonus ball lottery every week. Everybody pays a pound and picks a number between 1 and 49. When the lottery is drawn the person who matches the bonus ball wins half the money and the other half goes to the hospice.

- Offer to carry out office errands for a fee.

- Ask your local pub to hold a quiz night or race night then get a group of colleagues to go along.

- Ask your boss about match funding. Your employer might have a policy where they match the funds you raise for the hospice, doubling what you have raised!