Avon and Somerset Constabulary Benevolent Fund

The Objects of the Charity are the prevention or relief of poverty, suffering, distress, ill-health or financial hardship amongst the Beneficiaries, in particular but not exclusively by providing grants, loans and/or or such other financial assistance and support to those individuals in such ways as the Trustees see fit from time to time.[Relevant definitions: ‘Beneficiary’ and ‘Beneficiaries’ means the individual or individuals who qualify as beneficiaries of the Charity in accordance with the Objects, namely:(i) serving members of the Constabulary (each a Serving Member) and pensioned members of the Constabulary or of the Former Police Forces (each a Retired Member);(ii) any spouse, or civil partner (as such term is defined in section 350 of the Charities Act 2011) or any widow or widower of a Serving Member or a Retired Member; (iii) any other person who in the opinion of the Trustees is wholly or partly dependant of a Serving Member or a Retired Member; and(iv) such other categories of persons closely connected to the Constabulary which the Trustees shall from time to time determine;‘the Constabulary’ means the Avon and Somerset Constabulary;‘Former Police Forces’ means the following former police constabularies:(i) Bath City Police; (ii) Bristol Constabulary; (iii) Somerset Constabulary; and(iv) Somerset and Bath Constabulary;]