East Dunbartonshire Women's Aid SCIO

Constitutional objectives

7.1 The SCIO will promote, advance and further charitable purposes through working as a woman-only organisation:- 7.1.1 to provide temporary refuge for women and their children (if any) where the women have suffered abuse (mental, physical or sexual) in their home or within a relationship with a partner or family. 7.1.2 to offer support, information and help to any women and their children (if any) who ask for such help whether or not they are refuge residents and also to offer support and information to any women and children who have left a temporary refuge. 7.1.3 to encourage these women to determine their own futures. 7.1.4 to provide the opportunities for the educational and emotional needs of the children (if any) to be met, particularly those resident in refuges. 7.1.5 to encourage statutory authorities and other agencies to recognise their obligations, legal and otherwise, towards abused women and their children (if any) and to act accordingly towards the prevention of abuse and the relief of suffering. 7.1.6 mindful of the fact that abuse ? mental, physical, sexual ? is the result of the position of women in society, to promote education and to inform the community and their representatives with respect to the abuse of women and its prevention. 7.1.7 to encourage research into the causes, the prevention and relief of such suffering and abuse. 7.1.8 to encourage such training both for ourselves and others as will best meet the objectives of the group. and 7.1.9 to do all other things as will properly attain the above purposes.