A shameless plug for PR (for you) and donations (for charity)

A fellow Polar Trek participant, attempting the Trek with me next April, has persuaded 2 companies to each pay £10 000 to an epilepsy charity to have their company flag/logo photographed at the North Pole.

Now I'm not suggesting many of you are willing or able to pay that much (or are you?) but you may know someone interested in one of the following two propositions: -

a) Highest bidder gets their logo photo'd at the North Pole (closing date for entries is the end of day 1 at the Yorkshire Mafia conference 2012 (March 21st-22nd) - reserve price of £2 500 and it all goes to charity, so it's a tax write-off for your company as well folks)

b) Are there 500 companies who will each pay £100 to have their logo in a patchwork with the winner of a raffle getting the PR of being awarded the patchwork once I return?

That same business will also be featured as a Foundation Sponsor of the Trek - got to be worth a great feature in the national and local press at the VERY least.

Anyone who has already donated £100 or more to charity through me will automatically be included in the 500 (so thank you already to Hermes Europe, iSource Group, 3CO's, Rullion, Journey Management, TouchPoint Change Consulting and The Individual Restaurant Company). Anyone who wants to top-up a donation they have already made to make it £100 can do so.

Provision of the logos will be at your expense and need to be in a format that one of my creative partnering companies can use. Creation of the patchwork will be funded by using up to £2.50 from each £100 (given I've already PERSONALLY committed to pay £26 000 to go on the Trek).

If the patchwork costs more than the £2.50 per donor, I'll personally fund the difference.

I will require a minimum of 100 companies to make this sufficiently eye-catching to the media folks so please, don't be shy.

Your donation can go to ANY ONE (or more) of the charities; you don't HAVE to donate to a group of 5. It's your hard-earned money and you have the option to decide where it goes.

All donations that are not placed over the Virgin Money Giving sites I've set up are placed in a client account at Barclays that Bartfields the Accountants have set up for me, with Bartfields assuring all sponsors, donors and charities alike of integrity and transparency. Cheques should be made payable to Geoff Major Polar Trek and sent to: -

Polar Trek

c/o BlueDucks Limited

Round Foundry Media Centre

Foundry Street

Leeds LS11 5QP ............ with a covering letter expressing which charity (or charities) you want the money to go to (out of the 10 I'm supporting).

Please send your bids there as well.

Thank you. Lots.

And lots and lots .... and lots ...... and lots. Honest.