To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society by the provision of education, information, training, support and advice.
for the purpose of this clause ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one or more of the following factors; unemployment; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health(physical or mental); substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs; poor educational or skills attainment; relationship and family breakdown.