I’ve just been over the road and there doing a fundraiser for my friend Ben. He’s a massive Rhinos fan and has done a lot for the community over the years. He now wants to go out to Brazil and get some work experience samba style! So if live in or near Farsley then feel free to pop into the community café. The address is: Farm Shop and Cafe, Farsley Farfield Primary School, Cote Lane, Farsley, Leeds, LS28 5ED More details about the café here: farfieldcafe.org.uk/ Also the DamoBit will be back next week. I’ve had to deal with some big setbacks in recent weeks but I’m raring to go now.

I’ve just been over the road and there doing a fundraiser for my friend Ben. He’s a massive Rhinos fan and has done a lot for the community over the years. He now wants to go out to Brazil and get some work experience samba style! So if live in or near Farsley then feel free to pop into the community café. The address is: Farm Shop and Cafe, Farsley Farfield Primary School, Cote Lane, Farsley, Leeds, LS28 5ED More details about the café here: farfieldcafe.org.uk/ Also the DamoBit will be back next week. I’ve had to deal with some big setbacks in recent weeks but I’m raring to go now.

Does he know his sign says Ben to Brail?

I've always fancied going to Iceland, not the shop, the country. However, having done the new house up and having a new baby, I'm not sure I can afford it at the moment.

If I make a cake will you give me the money to go in exchange for a few slices? I do support Leeds and I have done some charity work in the past.





Have I missed something here?



Oh, and "Brail"?

He really wants to read with his fingers. Maybe the "Ultras" made him the flag?

He’s a lad who’s just finished school, unemployed (I think) and still lives with his parents (as far as I’m aware). On the other hand you’ve just done your new house up and getting well on with life.

Going to Brazil is going to help Ben a lot for obvious reasons such as becoming more independent and getting to learn about a different culture.

He can’t afford this opportunity himself so our community leader has stepped in and done a couple of events to help him raise money.

As for the spelling – I’m lost for words myself.

If Wigan fans see this thread



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Jesus. Does his mum still wipe his for him? Tell the tax dodger to get a job like the rest of us and pay his own way. Bloody scrounging get

That’s one of the worse comments I’ve ever read on RLFANS.

Did you read anything what I wrote in the first post?

I'd guess so, hence why he's come to that conclusion. I know, why doesn't he get people to pledge money to him to?

Did i miss something? Is he disabled? In which case I'm wrong. All I got on my phone was he wants to go to brazil. So do i

I’ve already given Ben £10 out of my dole money and he’s already raised in the region of £400+ with the helping hands of other people in the community. It might be more now though. He’s also walked the three peaks with a bunch of other people to raise money for this work experience trip.

If he doesn’t reach the target raised by the closing date (not sure when that is) then I’m sure someone will fund the rest. I put this on here because I know we all like cake and I though it was a worth thread. I’m sure we won’t forget Brail in a while

I want to go to Florida. I've done work in the community. Can you all please give me your money and I promise when I come back I'll buy Southstander a communal cake.

He’s not disabled as far as I'm aware. He wants to go and work over in Brazil. It’s not like over here is brimming with employment opportunities for him or anyone at this moment in time. He’s not going to be on a beach having a holiday. I’ve worked abroad before and it was anything but glamorous.

Not really read the full thread but from what I can gather all you need to say is something that involves the words - community work, cake and brail and people will give you enough money to go to South America.

Sounds pretty easy to me.

So he needs to get a job like the rest of us then

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