Guidance

Example Objects - Family Planning

Published 10 May 2013

Applies to England and Wales

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NB: The Care Trust has prepared a standard governing document for an organisation wishing to apply for registration as a Pregnancy Crisis Centre.

Example objects:

  • To educate young people in matters of sex and contraception and to develop amongst them a sense of responsibility in regard to sexual behaviour with the aim of preventing and mitigating of the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy.

  • (i)To preserve and protect the good health both mental and physical of parents, young people and children and to prevent the financial hardship, caused by unwanted conception;

    (ii) to educate the public in the field of procreation, contraception, and health with particular reference to personal responsibility in sexual relationships and to the consequences of population growth;

    (iii) to give medical advice and assistance in cases of involuntary sterility or of difficulties connected with the marriage relationship or sexual problems for which medical advice or treatment is appropriate.

  • To promote education and research in the subject of fertility and pregnancy and the termination of pregnancy and into its effects on women, whether physical, medical, psychological or social; to provide advice treatment and assistance for women who are suffering from any physical or mental illness or distress as a result of fertility or infertility.

Activities a charity for these purposes might be carrying out:

Direct help: advice, education and guidance about and access to various types of contraception or fertility treatment; Indirect: supporting academic research into the causes and effects of unwanted pregnancy or new methods of fertility treatment and publishing that research.

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