The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI), which provides charitable grants to farming families, said it had seen a rise in emergency payments and in the number of calls to its helpline.
As such, it has a limited application to the issue of charitable contributions directed by Shariah authorities related to a given SCF financial institution.
In both instances, the legal advisor to the SCF financial institution or business must be very careful about how these charitable contributions are made and who the beneficiaries of these funds are.