Carers UK

Constitutional objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND ARE: 4.1 TO ALLEVIATE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE AMONGST PEOPLE WHO ARE CARING OR WHO HAVE CARED FOR OLDER, ILL, DISABLED, OR OTHERWISE INFIRM PERSONS (HEREINAFTER CALLED “CARERS”) AND WHO ARE IN, OR RISK FINDING THEMSELVES IN, NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, AND OF DEPENDANTS OF CARERS BEING DEPENDANTS WHO ARE THEMSELVES IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO PROMOTE THE MATERIAL WELFARE OF SUCH CARERS. 4.2 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, DISABLEMENT OR ILLNESS INCLUDING MENTAL ILLNESS ATTRIBUTABLE TO CARING, AMONGST CARERS AND THOSE PERSONS FOR WHOM THEY ARE CARING. 4.3 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION CONCERNING CARING AMONGST CARERS AND THE PUBLIC. 4.4 TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE FOR THE BENEFIT OF CARERS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY EACH OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND AS APPLICABLE.