Stronsay Development Trust

Constitutional objectives

4 The company has been formed to benefit the community of Stronsay which comprises the following postcodes: KWI72AG, KWI72AF, KWI72AR, KWI72AJ, KWI72AN, KWI72AT, KW172AS, KW172AE ('the Community') with the following objects: 4.1 To provide recreational facilities and organise recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for members of the Community. 4.2 To advance education through: 4.2.1 the provision and supervision of learning-orientated extra-curricular activities for school and pre-school children. 4.2.2 the promotion of opportunities for learning for the benefit of the general public. and 4.2.3 the promotion of training, particularly among residents of the Community, and with particular reference to skills which assist the participants in obtaining paid employment. 4.3 To advance the arts, heritage and culture. 4.4 To advance environmental protection and improvement 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 benefits so arising clearly outweigh any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners). 4.5 To provide, or assist in the provision of, housing for those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage within the Community. 4.6 To prevent and relieve poverty particularly among the residents of the Community. 4.7 To advance citizenship within the Community by encouraging, stimulating and supporting volunteering projects. 4.8 To preserve, for the benefit of the general public, the historical, architectural and constructional heritage that may exist in and around 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. 4.9 To advance the health and wellbeing of the residents of the Community and to prevent or relieve ill-health among residents of the Community and provision of health education for such residents. 4.10 To promote, establish, operate and/or support other similar schemes which are in furtherance of charitable purposes for the benefit of the residents of the Community.