For the person with everything, an insight into those with nothing. Just £8,000, not inclusive of travel, food or accommodation, buys a business executive with a conscience the chance to hone some unusual skills in rather less comfortable or relaxing surroundings than those to which they have grown accustomed.

Sandwiched between a session in London this May and another in New York next February, participants enrolling in the Philanthropy Workshop will spend a week in Brazil in November, seeing how the world’s other 99 per cent lives and mulling how to help them help themselves.