Relate

Introduction

Relate provides relevant and useful ways to help people build better relationships for themselves. The pressures today on those in and out of relationships are different from when Relate began over 50 years ago. Relate has responded to people’s relationship support needs as society has changed over the decades and today offers a range of services and choices for accessing them.

What are the aims of Relate?

Objects

• To educate the public concerning the benefits of secure couple relationships, marriage and family life, in order to improve the emotional, sexual and spiritual well being of individuals which is derived from committed relationships.
• To promote research into all aspects of couple relationships and marriage and to make the results available to the public.
• To seek to enhance the good health, both mental and physical, of adults and children by increasing public awareness of the benefit of committed couple relationships, marriage and family life and working to prevent poverty, hardship and distress caused by the breakdown of such relationships.

Statement of Common Purpose

Relate's role is to help people build better couple relationships:

• To enhance the quality of couple and parental and family relationships
• To help relationships and marriage withstand the pressures leading to breakdown
• To limit the damage which commonly accompanies failing relationships, separation and divorce and increase the prospect of subsequent relationships succeeding.

Relate aims to deliver its services with cultural sensitivity and without discrimination.

Who are Relate services for?

Relate has services to support everyone in or out of a couple relationship. It has services that support and educate both adults and children. It works to make services accessible to all via innovative points of access. Relate counsellors are trained to be sensitive to the needs and characteristics of different groups in society.

What area does Relate cover?

Relate is a national charity covering the England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is a Federation structure of 78 regional charities as well as the Central Office. Relate services are accessible at 400 locations around the UK, it also offers telephone and internet services and its range of books are sold in good bookshops nationwide as well as internationally.

What are the Services Relate Provides?

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