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Agricultural charity launches awareness campaign Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 October 2007

A Scottish charity dedicated to helping people who have worked on the land has launched a campaign to boost its profile and raise awareness of its work, among potential beneficiaries, potential donors and the general public.

The Royal Scottish Agricultural Benevolent Institution, as it was formerly known, has now changed its name just to RSABI. It supports people including former farmers, farm workers, crofters, forestry workers, gamekeepers and their dependents,

Chief executive Dr Maurice Hankey said: "RSABI needs to be better known throughout the whole of Scotland, and across all the occupations we can support. There are too many individuals who are in need of our assistance but do not know we exist or how to reach us, and many people who may be willing to support the charity if they had more knowledge of its work."

"We want people across Scotland to know that the charity is here to help them. We currently support over 600 individuals every year but these are not evenly distributed around the country and in some areas the charity is scarcely known. Our policy of offering strict confidentiality to our beneficiaries means that we cannot highlight case studies to gain publicity, and individuals’ own reluctance to tell people they receive charity help means that word spreads very slowly.

"Although the charity started life supporting only tenant farmers and their dependents, we are now able to help a much wider group of individuals who are experiencing hardship. We can now accept applications from anyone who has been engaged in a land-based occupation in Scotland for at least 10 years, as well as from those who have relied on such people."

For more information on RSABI see its website
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