Carers Link East Dunbartonshire

Constitutional objectives

To alleviate the conditions of life and stress felt amongst people who, irrespective of age, are, or in the recent past have been, looking after relatives or friends who because of disability, illness or frailty cannot manage to live in the community without assistance or who may be in residential care or who are supported in living independently, and who are in the necessitous circumstances, and of dependants of carers being dependants themselves in necessitous circumstances, in the company's area and for that purpose to promote the material welfare of such carers as aforesaid. (b) To relieve and alleviate, and to advance, promote, encourage and assist in the relief or alleviation OF all kinds of mental and physical infirmity, sickness, including mental illness attributable to caring, amongst carers and those persons for whom they are caring. (c) To advance education concerning caring among carers and the public generally (d) In furtherance of the objectives the Company will be pursuing the following aims: o To offer support and information to carers in East Dunbartonshire o To work in partnership with existing and emerging service providers To signpost the carers of East Dunbartonshire to support services o To enable the development of additional support services to meet existing and emerging carers needs. o To provide the opportunity for the views of carers in East Dunbartonshire to be represented locally and nationally. o To offer support to all carers in East Dunbartonshire regardless of age, gender, race, religious belief, social background, geographic location or illness or disability of the carer or cared for person.