Thornton Pensioners Welfare Comm

Constitutional objectives

1. To promote and assist the general good of all old age pensioners resident in the district of Thornton and entitled to draw their pensions at the Thornton Post Office, by assisting the work of the statutory authorities and voluntary organisations engaged in providing facilities for physical and mental recreation, furthering health, relieving poverty, distress or sickness, or in pursuing any objects which now are, or hereafter may be deemed by law to be charitable. 2. To promote and organise co-operation in the achievement of the above purposes and to that end bring together in council representatives of the authorities and organisations engaged in the furtherance of the above purposes or any of them within the district of Thornton. 3. To assist any other charitable body or bodies financially or otherwise in the furtherance of the above purposes. 4. To promote and carry out or assist in promoting and carrying out surveys relating to the needs of old age pensioners within the said district and arrange for the forwarding to the proper authorities and organisations the relevant facts regarding such causes and causes of distress as are within the power of those authorities and organisations to alleviate. 5. To arrange and provide for or join in arranging and providing for the holding of exhibitions, meetings, lectures and classes in furtherance of the objects of the Committee.