Routes to Work South

Constitutional objectives

1.1 To relieve and/or prevent poverty particularly among residents of the area served by South Lanarkshire Council ('the Operating Area') 1.2 To relieve unemployment particularly among residents of the Operating Area including providing support to gain and sustain paid employment 1.3 To promote and/or provide training in skills of all kinds, particularly such skills as will assist residents of the Operating Area to gain and sustain paid employment 1.4 To advance education particularly among residents of the Operating Area 1.5 To advance health particularly among residents of the Operating Area 1.6 To promote equality and diversity and relieve those in need particularly within the Operating Area by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship, alcohol or drug dependency or other disadvantage 1.7 To advance citizenship or community development (including rural and urban regeneration, linking opportunity and need and the promotion of civic responsibility, volunteering, the voluntary sector or the effectiveness or efficiency of charities) as part of a wider strategy for relief of poverty 1.8 To promote, operate, establish and/or support social enterprise activity particularly for the benefit of residents of the Operating Area but only so as to further the Company's charitable purposes 1.9 To promote, operate, establish and/or support other similar projects and programmes which further charitable purposes particularly for the benefit of residents of the Operating Area.