The purpose of the organization is (1) To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the area known as burnley, pendle and rossendale, hereinafter called the " area of benefit " and in particular the advancement of education, the preservation and protection ofgood health, the relief of poverty, distress and sickness, and to provide or assist in the provision of facilities for recreation and other leisure time activity with the object of improving the conditions of life in the said community (2) To promoteand organise co - operation in the acheivement of the above purposes or any of them and to that end bring together in charity representatives of the statutory authorities and voluntary organisations engaged in the furtherance of the above purposes orany of them within the area of burnley, pendle and rossendale.