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 30/04/1923
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/07/1935
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/06/1940
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/11/1948
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/03/1950
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/07/1961
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/11/1963
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/10/1982
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/11/1995
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/11/1998
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/12/1998
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/11/1999
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/03/2000
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/11/2007
AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 27/01/2012
AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 SEP 2016 as amended on 22 Mar 2022 as amended on 01 Jun 2022
Charitable objects
4.1 To provide for the medical or surgical treatment, re-education, training in one or more trade or trades, settlement and permanent welfare of:-
4.1.1 Members or former members of the armed forces both men and women blinded from whatever cause whether or not connected in any way with service in the armed forces;
4.1.2 Other persons both men and women not being members or former members of the armed forces who are blinded in or as a consequence of any war or warlike operations in which the forces of the Crown may be at any time engaged or any service connected with or subsidiary to such war or warlike operations or by or as a consequence of enemy action in the course of any such war or warlike operations; and
4.1.3 Other persons both men and women not being members or former members of the UK armed forces who are blinded in or as a consequence of any war or warlike operations or terrorist activity
(all such persons being hereinafter referred to as ‘Beneficiaries’)
and so that for the purposes of these Articles the word ‘blinded’ shall extend to all cases in which the sight has been so impaired that special care and training are required and all cases in which the sight is endangered so long as the cause of the danger continues.
4.2 To provide allowances or other assistance for any wife, widow, husband, widower, child or dependent of a Beneficiary who may be in need of assistance or any person who shall have kept house for or nursed or otherwise rendered exceptional service to or have been dependent upon a Beneficiary any may after the death of such Beneficiary be in need of assistance.
Area of benefit
The area the charity can operate in, as set out in its governing document.
