Glasgow Children's Holiday Scheme

Constitutional objectives

4. The organisation is established for charitable purposes only, and in particular, the objects are: 4.1 To provide holidays and short breaks for children, families and carers who otherwise would not access a holiday due to disadvantages by reason of poverty, deprivation, ill-health, disability or other adverse circumstances 4.2 To enable access to days out and activities for disadvantaged children, families, carers and organised groups of young people 4.3 To support youth organisations to access activity based breaks for groups of young people 4.4 To promote at local, regional and national level the need and benefits of holidays and breaks for children, carers and families 4.5 The area within which the organisation shall operate (in this constitution referred to as the ‘Area of Benefit’) shall be Greater Glasgow and the surrounding areas, especially areas of multiple deprivation. 4.6 The charity shall promote (but not promote exclusively) its activities and delivery operations to people within the ‘Area of Benefit’ who are disadvantaged by reason of poverty, deprivation, ill-health, disability or other adverse circumstances. Those people will be the organisation’s beneficiaries. 4.7 The charity is committed to equality and diversity and to ensure that all service users and applicants are treated equitably regardless of sex, gender, race or disability or any other protected characteristic.