To promote the preservation of mental health and to assist in relieving and rehabilitating persons suffering from mental disorder or conditions of emotional or mental distress, with due consideration to gender, race, sexuality, age, culture and disability, requiring advice or treatment in the london borough of tower hamlets, the london borough of newham, and surrounding boroughs (redbridge, havering, barking and dagenham), in association with mind (the national association for mental health) and in accordance with the aims and objectives of mind