Craigavon Area فوڈ بینک operates under a registered charity.
The Charity's objects ("the Objects") are specifically restricted to the prevention and relief of poverty, financial hardship, sickness and distress, the promotion, preservation and protection of health of the inhabitants of the Craigavon area and its environs in particular but not exclusively (hereinafter referred to as "the area of benefit") and to promote general charitable purposes for the benefit of those inhabitants who are in need of assistance as a result of their poverty or social and economic circumstances by associating with the statutory authorities, community and voluntary organisations and the inhabitants of the area of benefit in a common effort to relieve poverty and financial hardship in the interests of social welfare in order to improve the conditions of life for the said inhabitants and in particular: (a) to relieve poverty and hunger of the inhabitants who are in the conditions of need, hardship or distress in the area of benefit by any charitable means and in particular through the provision of emergency food aid, relief goods, funds, training clothing, advice and care; (b) the relief of sickness among the inhabitants by the provision of healthy nutrition and food hygiene practice and the provision of services required to ease their suffering; (c) to promote or assist in the promotion, facilitation and organisation of community capacity building and community development programmes and projects for the benefit of the inhabitants within the area of benefit who have need of such assistance as a result of their youth, age, disability or infirmity, or social and economic circumstances, in an effort to increase the abilities, skills and self-confidence of such inhabitants; (d) to advance any other exclusively charitable purposes as the trustees, may from time to time, decide in accordance with the law of charity.