• Helps people across Scotland

• Confidential support provided in number of different ways

• Land-based occupations

• Last year >£480,000

• 688 people helped

RSABI today

• Based at Ingliston, Edinburgh

• Welfare, Development, Admin

• Office-based & home-based

• Voluntary Committees

Staff & structure

• Occupational requirements: agriculture (incl. crofting), forestry, fish farming, rural estate work, gamekeeping, horticulture

• Financial requirements: low income leading to hardship

• People in retirement/no longer able to work, those experiencing unexpected financial crisis and people with specific needs arising from illness injury or disability

Who do we help?

How we help

• Annual Beneficiaries

• Single Grants for essential items

• Helpline

• Home Visits

Additional funds

• Foot and Mouth Disease

• Fuel Poverty Grants (2006-2009)

• Weather Crisis Fund (2012-2014)

• Appliance Schemes

• Help for Heating Fund (2014/15)

Case study

The application process• Complete confidentiality

• Preliminary Application Form

• Visit by Case Officer; full application; other help

• Case discussed at regular Case Meeting

• Help offered in most appropriate way

Income/expenditure by area

*Rounded to nearest 100

Area Annual Benefit & Grants Paid (£*)

Current Number of Beneficiaries

ABs SGs

Central 39,400 21 3

Tayside & Fife 52,100 54 10

Lothian & Borders 57,100 36 29

South West 175,600 141 9

North East 112,600 95 15

Highlands & Islands 84,000 70 20

• Raising awareness

• Fundraising, events

• Corporate partnership

Development

• Individual

• Business• Corporat

e

RSABI Supporter Scheme

Alex Dunbar: RSABI Ambassador

Finding new beneficiaries• Ambitious plans to

increase numbers

• Care and corporate partnership, volunteer groups

• Requirement for

network of local people to spread word

63% ‘word of mouth’

What the beneficiaries say…

“It is really nice to know that when you are at your lowest there is someone to help”

“Thank you so much – I just wish I had known about you years ago…”

“What a difference in my life. I feel I am now living and not just existing.”

97% of beneficiaries say

RSABI has had a huge, or big effect

on their lives

94% would

recommend RSABI