Arniston Improvement Trust

Constitutional objectives

The objects of the Trust shall be to apply all investment income, gifts and donations and other income from whatever source including all income covenanted from the Hunterfield Gothenburg Tavern Trust and all tax reclaimed thereon obtained by its Trustees for the benefit of the people of Gorebridge and the surrounding district and without prejudice to the foregoing generality in particular to promote the following objects, namely:- education or training of children, youths and adults, the study, exposition and practice of the arts, painting, sculpture, literature, music and drama, the provision of facilities for recreation and other leisure-time occupation, cultural and recreational activities of all kinds and the care of or provision of recreation for, aged, infirm, incapacitated, handicapped or needy persons. Those objects shall, as far as possible, and primarily be promoted within (but not exclusively within) the area of Gorebridge and the surrounding district. The Trustees shall also promote, assist and encourage, by grants of money or otherwise, any association, club or organisation of a voluntary character operating within the said Gorebridge and the surrounding district and having as its purpose or one of its main purposes the promotion of the above mentioned objects or anyone or more of them. The Trustees shall take care that the funds of the Trust shall be applied in supplement of and not in substitution for any benefit which may be provided or available from public funds.