Not really.

Its volunteers like Ben who save the taxpayers a lot of money. Kids don’t commit crime when they in Youth centres and that’s why we’re having policing cuts. It’s much cheaper to have former police on the dole or better still - a diffrent job in the private sector.

Better to be on the dole than working? You talk more bull than Peter hood. I work AND help out with youth work. It's no wonder we are are becoming a nation of idle scroungers

I can't believe he's raised as much as £400 already i'm all for the volunteer sector but come on funding a young lad to go to Brazil for "Work experience" i've been there damo and the last thing the lad will be doing is working once he hits the beaches and cheap booze and tarts.

I think you’ll find that most people are on the dole out of circumstance rather than choice. Most people on the dole would be more than happy with full time work but it just isn’t they at the moment. The jobs market is terrible and the choice for most people on the dole is zero hours with speculative pay. Whilst I could take on one of these zero hour jobs with speculative pay due to my good financial management, most people can’t. You look at this situation with a very narrow set of eyes which is very shallow considering how bad things have been getting with workfare etc.

My advice for you is don’t call someone a scrounger if you can’t improve their situation. Going by your logic you’re just as lazy as them. More than willing to call people names but not willing to give them the proper opportunity to stop been a ‘scrounger’ as you so nicely put it.

He needs to up the ante a bit...get some decent PR and start with a snappy slogan...something along the lines of 'I need £500,000 by the end of March.'

Looks like he's close to his target if the cake sales are working on a "one for you, one for me" basis.

He’ll be having some fun of course. But he’ll be spending much of the time working on a farm.

Plenty of farmers are always looking for help,why Brazil,why not closer to home?

The answer to that is – why not Brazil?

People need help all over the world but they don’t get it. I don’t think what he’s doing is right or wrong. It just is what it is.

Priceless. You couldn't make it up

I'm going to log back into this forum tomorrow morning and discover this was all an eleborate joke

p.s. if he wants to go to Brazil to do charity work I would suggest he contacts a charity that works out there thats based in the UK. They would probably fly him out and put him up for free.

He’s going to Brazil because he will raise the money to get there regardless of whenever people on here give him money or not. Not everyone in this world is cynical and some people just want to help Ben do what he wants to do.

Anyhow I think he’s going to be keeping us up to date of what he’s up to when he gets to Brazil. I’m sure everyone on here is looking forward to reading all about his Brazilian adventure. Maybe it’ll inspire others to bake cakes so they can one day do what he’s going to do.

Isn't April Fools day on Sunday?

Nope, he’s caking his way to Brazil.

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