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R.A.B.I's primary service is providing grants to farming people in financial need. It offers regular payments to those from the agricultural industry needing long-term support; mostly people who are no longer working, are typically over 65 and have limited savings. One-off payments can also be given
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to rally support for the formation of the institution. By 1860, he had received donations of 1,700 guineas and 450 pledges to make annual donations. Ironically, Mechi died poor. His affairs went into liquidation in 1880 and he died 12 days later, on Boxing Day, of encephalitis and ‘a broken heart’.
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granted R.A.B.I a royal charter to mark its 75th anniversary. The charter was later amended in 1999 to extend the charity's support to farmworkers as well as farmers.
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