Grampian Women's Aid

Constitutional objectives

The objects for which the Company is established are:- a. To provide advice, support and refuge for women and their children who have suffered mental, physical or sexual harassment or abuse. b. To encourage these women to determine their own future and to help them achieve it, whether it involves returning home or starting a new life. c. To recognise and care for the emotional and educational needs of the children involved. d. To offer support, advice and help to any abused women who asks for it, whether or not she is resident and also to offer support and after-care to any women and children who have left the refuge. e. To encourage research into causes on ways of preventing or relieving the suffering caused by such harassment and to keep such statistics and basic records as will facilitate research to the long term benefit of all abused women. f. To educate and inform the public, the media, the police, the courts, the social services and other authorities, with respect to the abuse of women and enlist the support of professional workers to help women with all aspects of their problems.