Community Links (South Lanarkshire)

Constitutional objectives

The company’s objects are:- 2.1 To relieve poverty among the residents of South Lanarkshire and environs (“the Operating Area”) with a particular emphasis on areas of deprivation as defined by Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (as amended from time to time) (“SIMD”). 2.2 To relieve unemployment for the public benefit in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment. 2.3 To advance education among the residents of the Operating Area. 2.4 To preserve, restore and improve the environment through the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open space and other public amenities, and other environmental and townscape regeneration projects, and in doing so, to seek wherever appropriate (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefit so arising clearly outweighs any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners) to carry out works of reclamation, remediation, restoration and other operations to facilitate the use for those purposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previous use. 2.5 To relieve the needs of people suffering from mental and/or physical disability, illness or impairment. 2.6 To provide in the interests of social welfare facilities within the Operating Area for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large with a view to improving their conditions of life. 2.7 To promote, establish, operate and/or support other schemes and projects of a charitable nature for the benefit of communities (including, but not limited to, communities within the Operating Area), in order to support those communities to become more empowered and involved in local decision-making processes.