Governing document CARE IN EAST GRINSTEAD AND LINGFIELD
Charity number: 800348
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Governing document
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CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 07 SEP 1988
AS AMENDED ON 27 APR 1993
AS AMENDED ON 07 MAY 2014
AS AMENDED ON 05 MAY 2015
AS AMENDED ON 17 MAY 2017
AS AMENDED ON 15 MAY 2019
AS AMENDED ON 21 JAN 2020
AS AMENDED ON 29 SEP 2021 as amended on 04 Oct 2023
Charitable objects
2. Objects
2.1. The objects for which CARE is established are to relieve in cases of need, hardship or
distress, eligible persons (subject to the conditions in Paragraph 2.2) who are resident in the
area of or adjacent to the district of East Grinstead in the County of Sussex and Lingfield in
the County of Surrey or such enlarged area as the Annual General Meeting may determine,
by the provision of such voluntary care and work as may be charitable and in furtherance of
these objects but not otherwise, the organisation shall have the following powers:-
(a) to provide help in the home to those who through age or infirmity are unable fully
to support themselves. Such help may include companionship, gardening and
similar practical activities;
(b) to provide transport so that eligible people who otherwise would be unable to get
out to do their own shopping, collect prescriptions, visit hospitals, clinics, surgeries,
visit a friend or relative in a hospital or care/nursing home, or who have other basic
needs may do so without feeling a burden on their immediate neighbours;
(c) to undertake visiting/befriending in the clients home;
(d) to assist and complement other voluntary charitable and state organisations when
requested and to give assistance without hindering such organisations or taking
away the primary objective for which they have been established;
(e) to raise funds and to invite and receive contributions from any person or persons
whatsoever by way of subscriptions and otherwise provided that the organisation
shall not undertake permanent trading activities in raising funds for its objectives;
(f) subject to such consents as may be required by law to sell, let or mortgage, dispose
of or turn to account all or any of the property or assets of the organisation and to
invest such property, money, assets, securities, shares or other investments as the
Committee from time to time shall in their absolute discretion determine;
(g) to do all such other things as shall further the charitable objects of the organisation
and as may be lawful.
2.2. Regrettably, for legal and/or health & safety reasons, the following persons will not be
eligible for transport provision by CARE:-
(a) unaccompanied persons under the age of 18;
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th September 2021
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th September 2021
(b) children excluded by law from travelling in a private car without a correctly fitted
child or booster seat;
(c) persons whose disabilities prevent them from correctly wearing a seat belt;
(d) persons whose disabilities prevent them from getting into, or out of, a private car
without undue physical assistance, unless accompanied at all times by a qualified
nurse or care worker;
(e) persons who require physical assistance to reach a car from their residence or who
are unable to get into, or out of a wheelchair without undue physical assistance,
unless accompanied at all times by a qualified nurse or care worker;
(f) persons with degenerative illnesses whose actions may be a danger to themselves,
their driver or other road users while travelling in a private car, unless accompanied
and supervised at all times by a qualified nurse or care worker;
(g) persons with a history of abuse (physical or verbal);
(h) persons who are involved in claims against CARE or any of its members for as long
as the situation remains outstanding.
Area of benefit
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