Strabane and Lifford Resource and Development Group

The Company’s objects are specifically restricted to the advancement of community development, the advancement of education, the preservation of health, the relief of poverty, financial hardship and unemployment and the promotion of the benefit and wellbeing of the inhabitants and in particular but not exclusively women who are in need of assistance as a result of their poverty or social and economic circumstances (hereinafter called “the beneficiaries”) in the Derry and Strabane District Council area and Co. Donegal (hereinafter described as "the area of benefit") and in particular: (a) to advance the education of the beneficiaries and to relieve unemployment through the promotion, facilitation and organisation of adequate, accessible and quality programmes of vocational and educational training, employability services, resources, information and support in an effort to acquire new skills, qualifications and retraining to assist the beneficiaries in obtaining employment or establishing themselves in business; (b) to promote or assist in the promotion, facilitation and organisation of capacity building programmes and projects for the beneficiaries within the area of benefit who have need of such assistance as a result of their youth, age, ill health, disability or infirmity, or social and economic circumstances, by the provision of information and training, community development services, well-being activities, advice, mentoring, classes, workshops, support and instruction in an effort to increase the abilities, skills and self-confidence of the beneficiaries; (c) to promote the preservation and the safeguarding of mental and physical health and wellbeing by the provision of support, education and practical advice and in particular to provide and maintain a confidential service where individuals can receive counselling and support; (d) to provide training for parents and carers of children in child development, family learning, parenting and other appropriate subjects; (e) to promote the benefit of the inhabitants without distinction of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic identity, political or religious opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, community and voluntary organisations and the inhabitants in a common effort to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure-time occupation, with the object of fostering a community spirit and improving the conditions of life for the benefit of the inhabitants; (f) to advance any other exclusively charitable purpose as the directors, may from time to time, decide in accordance with the law of charity in Northern Ireland.