A grant-making charity that gives confidential help to farming people of all ages if they are in financial difficulty.
Founded in 1860, it helps working farmers and farm-workers on a short-term basis, for example following illness, accident, bereavement, family breakdown, or animal disease, and offers long-term help to elderly people and disabled people of all ages.
Support includes state benefits’ advice and one-off or regular grants, including winter heating supplements and helping with utility bills and telephone charges. It can also pay for things like specialist equipment, adaptions in the home, essential household goods, and hospital travel costs.
Though RABI does not pay business bills, it can pay for relief farm staff if, for example, someone is unable to work through illness or that of a close member of their family.
It can pay for help from the Institution of Agricultural Secretaries and Administrators to get paperwork and accounts in order. It can pay for training to allow people to develop skills they can use to get off-farm work to supplement their farm income.
The charity can also help with care home fees and home-help costs.
The hub of the charity’s operation is its office in Oxford, but at local level its work is managed by a team of home-based service managers and regional managers who cover the whole of Wales.
RABI works in strict confidence and for obvious reasons, the people it helps are unlikely to tell others about the support they receive.
RABI offers an online wellbeing support and counselling service for farmers which is free of charge. There are two sites to access support, one for young people and one for adults. Online counselling in Welsh and English is free of charge.
RABI offers in person counselling and mental health training.
A grant-making charity that gives confidential help to farming people of all ages if they are in financial difficulty.
Founded in 1860, it helps working farmers and farm-workers on a short-term basis, for example following...
