Governing document BLIND VETERANS UK
Governing document
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
NOT DEFINED
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