Chuggers are those annoying charity muggers who harrass you in the street and try and get you to sign up to direct debits to pay charities. They're usually good looking and try all kind of rubbish to get you to talk to them. I've even heard that if you do fall for their lines, you are actually paying the company that employs the chuggers for most of the first year of your payments, before anything goes to the charity. Not sure how true that it is, but I'll repeat here nonetheless and you can make of it what you want.

So it seems that charity can be big business. I touched on this last year with a post on some of the charity affiliate schemes available, but thought I would expand on that now since there's more schemes to choose from.

As was the case then, you can still get Oxfam Unwrapped and ActionAid through TradeDoubler.

Buy.At has the RSPCA credit card, RSPCA Gift Box, and Shelter - the charity for homeless people.

Affiliate Future has NDCS (National Deaf Children Society) Challenge, World Land Trust, the RSPB and 21st Century Leaders - which has has a unique concept where artwork is donated from leaders in all fields and then used to create ‘merchandise with a meaning’, including charity wristbands, clothing, tableware, ethical cosmetics and stationary released on the 21CL label

So do something good - promote these charities and get something back in return! Win Win.