The Pastoral Care Trust - The St Nicholas Care Fund

Constitutional objectives

i) the relief of poverty, hardship and distress amongst persons living or working throughout the World. ii) the relief of persons suffering from old age, mental or physical handicap, drug or alcohol dependency by the provisions or support of such services as are necessary to relieve the suffering of such persons. iii) the advancement of education and the establishment and support of centres for training in business or employment skills and in particular amongst those persons who are least qualified and have little prospects of employment. iv) the advancement of education in all matters affecting young persons, their growth, care, welfare and development (hereinafter called 'child studies') by the foundation or support of a chair in the science of child studies at the University of Glasgow or at such other universities, polytechnics or other public academies or institutions of learning as the Company shall in their absolute discretion determine and to fund, equip, endow and staff any chairs so founded and to commission and publish research into child studies by the making of such capital grants or periodic payments of income as the Company shall in their absolute discretion determine.