Governing document BEN - MOTOR AND ALLIED TRADES BENEVOLENT FUND
Charity number: 297877
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Governing document
Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established. It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14/09/1987
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/11/1990
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/07/1992
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/08/1994
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/01/1997
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/04/2007
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/09/2008
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/04/2013 as amended on 26 Apr 2018 as amended on 05 Jul 2018
Charitable objects
Objects
3.1. The Objects of the Charity are the prevention and relief of distress, sickness and poor health (whether mental or physical) and financial hardship by the provision of health and wellbeing services including advice, financial support and grants, health and wellness training, and information and literature
3.1.1. primarily to those persons who are resident in the Area of Benefit (defined below); and
3.1.2. who are working or who have worked in a qualifying trade or industry (defined below); or
3.1.3. who are close dependants (defined below) of any person who satisfies the criteria in articles 3.1.2 and 3.1.3.
and persons who fall within the criteria in articles 3.1.1, 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 are the Primary Beneficiaries
3.1.4. and otherwise for the benefit of any persons who are not Primary Beneficiaries, but who are resident in the Area of Benefit
For the purposes of these Objects:
3.2. the Area of Benefit shall mean England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
3.3. a qualifying trade or industry shall mean motor, engineering and allied trades and industries, including any trade business occupation profession or association which provides financial, insurance or other services or which originates or publishes material relating to those trades or industries or whose activities or any of them are ancillary to or connected with those trades or industries. The term ‘motor, engineering and allied trades and industries’ shall include any individual or body engaged in the manufacture, sale, repair or service of commercial vehicles, garage and service equipment, motor cars and coaches, motor bicycles, lubricants or propulsion fuel for any of them and the component parts of any of them or, in the case of an individual or body only partly so engaged, only those engaged solely in those activities; and
3.4. a close dependent shall mean an individual who relies on a person who satisfies the criteria in articles 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 for financial or other support and includes the spouse or partner, parent, child, sibling, grandparent or grandchild (by blood or marriage) of that person
Area of benefit
The area the charity can operate in, as set out in its governing document.
