Dumfriesshire & Stewartry Women's Aid

Constitutional objectives

3. The Company's objects are:- A. (a) To encourage the provision of temporary refuge or refuges for women and their children (if any) where the women suffered abuse (mental, physical or sexual) in their home or within a relationship with a man. (b) To offer support, information and help to any women and their children (if any) who ask for such help whether or not they are refuge residents and also to offer support and advice to any women and children who have left a temporary refuge. (c) To promote equal opportunities for, and participation of women In society to enable them to determine their own futures. (d) To provide the opportunities for the educational and emotional needs of the children (if any) to be met, particularly those resident in refuges. (e) To encourage statutory authorities and other agencies to recognise their obligations, legal and otherwise, towards abused women and their children (if any) and to act accordingly towards the prevention of abuse and relief of suffering. (f) To promote education and to inform the community and their representatives including the media, the police, the judicial system, the social service and other authorities with respect to the abuse of women and its prevention. (g) To encourage research into the causes, prevention and relief of such suffering and abuse of women.