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Calendar su ported by For Christmas and beyond Christmas Cards RABI Christmas cards have once again proved to be very popular and for those last minute ones there is still time to place orders - up to 19th December. Details of the designs can be found at www.rabi.org.uk and you can download an order form. Alternatively they are available from your regional officer or the fundraising, marketing & communications department at Shaw House on 01865 724931. Books Stoneground, the masterly biography of John Rymer, based on his own writings by Mike Keeble, is a most revealing insight into one of the most successful farming pioneers of our time. It is a book which will appeal to anyone with a fascination for farming’s recent past and an interest in its future sustainability. To say that it is a good read is an understatement. Copies of the book, £10 plus £1.50 p&p, are available from JSR Limited, Southburn, Driffield, East Yorkshire, YO25 9ED or from RABI. Thanks to the generosity of the Rymer family, all the proceeds from sales of the book are being donated to RABI. Horse Tales is a delightful book of anecdotes from the bygone age of the working horse, compiled by Harry Sear. He has been collecting the tales from around the country for the past 20 years and, with many of the original story tellers having passed on, he decided it was time to write them down before they are lost for ever. It is complemented by Michael Avery’s amusing illustrations. This ideal stocking filler, especially for those who still remember horse power on the farm, is available from Harlin House Publishers, Charity Farm, Eggington, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 9PB, price £12 including p&p (cheques payable to Harry Sear). There are currently three RABI originated cookbooks available: The Proof is in the Pudding, a collection of tried and tested favourite recipes compiled by RABI Cumbria committee member Pat Turnbull. Available from 25 Walverden Road, Briercliffe, Burnley, BB10 3QP, price £9, including p&p (cheques payable to RABI). Farmers’ Favourites, the 2007 edition of Sally Mitchell’s popular cookbook first published in 1996. Available price £5.95 from Old Pond Publishing Ltd – see www.oldpond.com Look and Cook, a collection of 77 recipes gathered from members and friends of Carmarthenshire RABI committee by Margaret Howell. Available, price £5, from Erys Hughes, regional officer for Wales, phone 01686 650937 or 07799 79844. Notelets RABI notelets, ideal for all those thank you notes you will be writing after Christmas. Produced in the south east region, packs of 10 (five of each design), price £3, are available from south east regional officer Sally Field, phone 01803 882741 or 07799 798441 Calendars Farming in focus 2009 is proving a big hit with all who have seen it. Designed on the same lines as this year’s calendar but with a bit more space to write your daily notes or appointments, it once again includes some stunning rural scenes kindly donated by leading photographer members of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists. It has again been supported by the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust, ensuring that all proceeds go directly towards helping those in need. At only £7 (including post and packing) it is a real bargain. Full details can be found on the enclosed insert and, as with the Christmas cards, on the website or from Shaw House. Farming in focus RABI Calendar 2009 A l proceeds go towards helping those in need in the farming community. Welly Wallmanac, is a 14-month calendar (from October 2008) produced by the Norfolk RABI committee and launched in Welly Week. It has been compiled by committee member Carolyn Gay, who secured £2,000 in sponsorship, with every page carrying a photograph of different supporters suitably clad in wellies, with the exception of the Eastern Daily Press agricultural editor, Michael Pollitt, who is hiding behind them! It is on sale at the Christmas card shop at the Assembly House, Norwich for £6. For additional availability contact the Norfolk RABI secretary, Sally Mitchell, on 01692 670521. Annual Christmas hamper appeal Every year RABI delivers around 1,000 hampers to beneficiaries, providing them with essential foodstuff and a few seasonal luxuries to help them celebrate Christmas. Last year nearly half the total number was paid for by donations - £35 will buy a hamper for a single person and £55 buys a hamper for a couple. This year our target is to double that figure. Thanks to a generous donation of £12,800 from the Oxford biennial dinner, held earlier this year at Keble College, we have made a good start and are already half way towards our target. Details of how you can help, by donating the cost of a hamper and bringing a little Christmas cheer to someone in need, can be found on the enclosed insert, on the website - www.rabi.org.uk - or from the fundraising, marketing & communications department at Shaw House on 01865 724931. RABI staff and their wellies competition Congratulations to Rosemary Brown of Little Walkers Heath Farm in Cheshire, the only entrant to correctly match all nine members of the RABI staff with their wellies in the autumn issue of R.A.B.I. News. She should have received her Farming in Focus calendar by now, as should the four runners-up - Kate Read from Hexham; Anna Burdett & Pam McGowan of the News & Star, Carlise; Louise Graham from Newark; and Jeanette Folland from Winkleigh. The correct pairings were A-4; B-6; C-3; D-7; E-9; F-5; G-2; H-8; I-1. www.rabi.org.uk 2
Introduction Cause for concern Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution With compassion and discretion we provide welfare advice, care and financial provision to those in the farming community suffering need, hardship or distress. Through our volunteers and supporters we raise the funds to maintain and develop a cost effective service capable of meeting the welfare and wellbeing needs of those farming in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Index News from Shaw House 4 London 10k Great North Run Welfare 5 Beneficiary holiday Beaufort House refurbishment Manson House goodbye Around the country 6 Welly Week round-up 12 Looking ahead 16 Psychedelic sheep for Smithfield Dorset Charity Challenge. RABI, Shaw House, 27 West Way Oxford, OX2 0QH tel: 01865 724931 fax: 01865 202025 e-mail: info@rabi.org.uk website: www.rabi.org.uk confidential helpline 01865 727888 R.A.B.I News is edited by Nicholas Bond who can be contacted at the above or tel: 01789 721311 (home/office) e-mail: nicholas.bond@farming.me.uk RABI operates throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland. A sister charity, RSABI operates in Scotland. Registered charity no. 208858 COVER PICTURE: SheepScape sheep grazing in Gloucestershire before heading for Smithfield - see page 16 'Credit crunch hits charity giving’ and ‘Farm borrowing at record levels’. Two recent news headlines that could be giving us cause for concern. The first reported that over the past year one in four charities that accepts donations had seen a fall in giving and one in five had experienced a rise in demand for their services. The Charity Commission chairman was reported as saying that charities were facing a great deal of uncertainty. They were being squeezed by higher costs and higher demands for vital services even before the Icelandic bank collapses, in which UK charities may have lost up to £120m of invested funds. The second concerned figures that show lending to the farming industry is at an all time record of £10.6bn. Lloyds TSB was anticipating increased borrowing next year, as farmers face higher tax bills, based on 2007 profits. Meanwhile, rising input prices and volatile grain markets are putting farmers' cash flows under pressure. RABI has been fortunate in that over the years its trustees built a firm base, ensuring that its investments were sound, while its main source of income has traditionally come from within the industry it serves. However, with the industry shrinking and the numbers needing RABI's help growing, there has been a growth in the fundraising activities aimed at those outside the farming community. As the effects of the credit crunch bite, for an increasing number of people it will, of necessity, be a case of charity starting at home. This is going to make it harder to fundraise outside the industry, while the cash flows of many of our most loyal and traditional supporters are likely to be under increasing pressure. It behoves us all to ensure that giving is managed as efficiently as possible, for instance making sure that Gift Aid is applied to all donations whenever it is applicable. This way we will be able to concentrate more of our concern on those who need our help and less on the gloomy headlines. Thank you for wearing your wellies The first RABI Welly Week was a great success thanks to everyone who participated and the spirit in which such a variety events took place. It is important to keep the fun in fundraising, particularly in times of economic depression. We certainly achieved that as the extended round-up of events, which is only a fraction of what took place, testifies. Thank you for wearing your wellies – see you in them again next year. Nicholas Bond Editor Apologies Our apologies to Mr & Mrs Charles Dakin, hosts of the annual Shropshire lunch whose picture in the autumn R.A.B.I. News, was somehow replaced by three Shropshire committee members about to carve the meat. Also for leaving a nought off the sum raised by the Oxford Moonlight Stroll, in the introduction to our new trust officer Nick Streeter. The figure should have been £70,000. Finally, to those who are still waiting for the next episode of ‘RABI’s first 150 years’, which has again been squeezed out, this time by Welly Week. It will be back in March. 3 www.rabi.org.uk
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