Charitable objects
3.1 To advance all or any of the purposes that are recognised as charitable by English law and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, to grant gratuities, pensions or allowances to persons who are or shall be necessitous and who for the time being are or have been in the employ of Freemans Public Limited Company or of any other company to which upon any reconstruction or amalgamation the goodwill undertaking and assets of Freemans Public Limited Company may be transferred or of any subsidiary (as defined by Section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006) for the time being of Freemans Public Limited Company (?Freemans?) or of any other company and the wives, widows, husbands, widowers, children, parents and other needy dependants of any person who for the time being is or would if living have been himself or herself a member of the class of beneficiaries.
3.2 Nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.
