Gorebridge Community Development Trust

Constitutional objectives

3. The company has been formed to benefit the community of Gorebridge which comprises all the postcode units within sector EH23 4 ('the Community') with the following objects: a) To promote the community and general public and its environs without distinction of sex, sexuality, political, religious or other opinions by associating the local statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities, or assist in the provision of facilities, in the interest of social welfare for recreation and other leisure-time occupation so that their conditions of life may be improved. (b) To advance education and in particular to promote opportunities for learning for the benefit of the community and the general public. (c) To preserve, restore and improve the environment in the community through the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and regeneration projects (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefit s so arising clearly outweigh any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners. (d) To relieve those in need by the promotion of trade and industry within the Community for the benefit of the Community and the general public. (e) To promote training, particularly among residents oft e Community, and with particular reference to skills which will assist the participants in obtaining paid employment. (f) To help young people, particularly those resident in within the Community, to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities, such that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and as members of society. (g) To preserve, for the benefit of the Community, the historical, architectural and constructional heritage that may exist within the Community in buildings (including any structure or erection and any part of a building as so defined) of particular beauty or historical, architectural or constructional interest. (h) To promote the rehabilitation of offenders and_ex offenders by the provision of education and training, the provision of assistance in finding work for such persons and the promotion or support of any project or scheme directed towards the prevention of crime or delinquency within the Community (i)To promote, establish, operate and/or support other searches and projects of a charitable nature for the benefit of the Community.