Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution head office, Oxford
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Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution head office, Oxford
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 19 Oct 2014
In Shaw House, 27 West Way. R.A.B.I. is farming's national charity, operating throughout England and Wales. A triangular stone plaque shows the year 1860, the year of R.A.B.I.'s founding by John Joseph Mechi. In the mid 1800s a group of Essex farmers had become concerned about the level of poverty within the farming community and the absence of an official body to represent them. In 1859, Mechi wrote to The Times to rally support for the founding of a benevolent institution that would seek funds and distribute them to the needy. By 1860, he had received responses from 700 noblemen, gentlemen, farmers and implement makers and donations amounting to 1,700 guineas. Annual subscriptions of 410 guineas were pledged by 450 of the 700 founders who enrolled.
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