Governing document ESSEX POLICE FORCE BENEVOLENT FUND
Charity number: 258273
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RULES ADOPTED 14 MAR 1969
AS AMENDED ON 21 FEB 1974
AS AMENDED ON 08 DEC 1982
AS AMENDED ON 01 JAN 1983
AS AMENDED ON 14 DEC 1988
AS AMENDED ON 01 JAN 1993
AS AMENDED ON 25 JAN 2016
AS AMENDED ON 04 AUG 2017
Charitable objects
A) TO PROVIDE RELIEF FROM POVERTY, SUFFERING, DISTRESS OR GENERAL HARDSHIP BY MEANS OF CASH GRANTS, OR BY SUCH OTHER METHODS AS THE COMMITTEE SHALL DETERMINE AMONG THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE:
I. SERVING ESSEX POLICE OFFICERS AND POLICE CADETS;
II. SERVING ESSEX POLICE STAFF OR SERVING SPECIAL CONSTABLES WHERE THE APPROACH HAS BEEN MADE BY THEIR RESPECTIVE BENEVOLENT FUND;
III. RETIRED ESSEX POLICE OFFICERS AND POLICE CADETS, WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE IN RECEIPT OF A PENSION (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THOSE WHO WERE DISMISSED FOR GROSS MISCONDUCT OR UNDER THE UNSATISFACTORY PERFORMANCE PROCEDURES (UPP) OR THOSE OTHERWISE ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF DISQUALIFIED OFFICERS. IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES THE COMMITTEE SHALL DECIDE ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS AND THE COMMITTEE’S DECISION SHALL BE FINAL).
IV. THE WIDOWS, WIDOWERS, CIVIL PARTNERS, LIFE PARTNERS, ORPHANS AND ANY OTHER DEPENDANTS OF ANY OF THE CATEGORIES LISTED AT I. AND III ABOVE.
B) TO MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANY CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR CHARITY, INCLUDING POLICE CONVALESCENT
HOMES WHICH HAVE SIMILAR OBJECTIVES TO THOSE GIVEN ABOVE, AS DETERMINED BY A MAJORITY OF THE COMMITTEE AT ANY MEETING.
Area of benefit
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