WHÄINGA/ PURPOSE (FROM OUR CONSTITUTION)

• To provide charitable facilities in Canterbury, New Zealand where all males can be supported in using resources provided for exclusively social welfare purposes.
• To promote the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing of males and society.
• To involve males of all ages, cultures, races, occupations, social and economic circumstances.
• To provide a forum for males to discover and clarify their needs, rights and responsibilities.
• To raise society’s awareness and respect for male’s needs, rights and responsibilities.
• To ensure that the services offered by the Men’s Centre are client centred.
• To provide a conduit to existing social services, resources, and courses for males.
• To create, or stimulate the creation of, services, resources and courses where they do not exist and where a need has been identified.
• To ensure that the rights and responsibilities of men, women and children to live in a community without violence, abuse, or intimidation are recognised and to endeavour to address these issues through the programmes offered and activities undertaken.
• To recognise the needs, rights and responsibilities of fathers:
  • in conventional two parent families,
  • as stepfathers,
  • as adoptive fathers,
  • as sole custodial parents,
  • as non-custodial parents.
• To acknowledge the views of other individuals and groups in our society that will compliment the Mens’ Centre’s aims and objectives.