Mayfield & Easthouses Development Trust

Constitutional objectives

The company has been formed to benefit the community of Mayfield and Easthouses ('the Community') with the following objects: (1) To manage community land and associated assets for the benefit of the Community and the public in general as an important part of the protection and sustainable development of Scotland's natural environment. (2) To provide within (name place) recreational facilities, or organise recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended. (3) To advance education and in particular to promote opportunities for learning for the benefit of the general public. (4) To advance the arts and/or culture. (5) To advance environmental protection and improvement in Mayfield and Easthouses 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 bclearly outweigh any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners). (6) To prevent or relieve poverty particularly among the residents of Mayfield and Easthouses. (7) To relieve those in need by the promotion of trade and industry within Mayfield and Easthouses for the benefit of the general public. (8) To relieve those in need by promoting training, particularly among residents of Mayfield and Easthouses, and with particular reference to skills which will assist the participants in obtaining paid employment (9) To help young people, particularly those resident in Mayfield and Easthouses, to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities, such that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and as members of society. (10) To advance heritage and/ or preserve, for the benefit of the general public, the historical, architectural and constructional heritage that may exist in and aroundenefits so arising