Provide a mediation service for the public benefit and for the preservation of public order, for persons, organisations, authorities, or groups in east kent and adjoining areas (the area of “benefit”) involved in, or likely to become involved in, dispute or inter-personal conflict where that dispute or conflict results from, or may lead to, acts of nuisance, vandalism, racial abuse, unlawful activity, breach of the peace or breakdown of public order, and to advance the education of the public in the said area in the purposes and methods of mediation and, in particular, in the nature and causes of such disputes or conflicts.