Activities
(4.1)The Charity is established to relieve poverty, financial hardship and distress and to advance the health of the homeless and other disadvantaged persons by such means as are charitable in law, principally within Northern Ireland but also elsewhere, in particular (but not necessarily exclusively) by the following means: (4.2) to relieve persons who are homeless, facing homelessness, or who are rough sleepers by the provision of practical assistance and support, food and drink, clothing, bedding, personal care items, information and advice, and to assist them to access healthcare, temporary accommodation and housing; (4.3) to provide such other services and facilities to homeless people and those at risk of homelessness (including those with addiction and mental health issues) as the Charity may have the resources to provide, such as day-care facilities, addiction services and temporary accommodation and to promote health and welfare and self-help, independence and social inclusion amongst such persons, so that their conditions of life may be improved; (4.4)to assist persons who, due to their economic or social circumstances (including family breakdown, ill-health or job loss) are (or were recently) homeless or were living in inadequate or temporary accommodation who require assistance to take up and furnish an offer of housing;(4.5) to supply free food parcels to those in immediate food poverty, and provide clothing, toys, books, furniture and other household accessories to those in need, collecting, testing, repairing and/or refurbishing electrical and white goods, and other household items including furniture, and making them available at an affordable cost or free to persons living on low incomes.
The prevention or relief of poverty,The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage