The organisation’s purposes are:

To promote the prevention and relief of poverty and/or disadvantage in Dundee and its environs through encouraging and enabling local faith communities to prevent and relieve poverty and/or disadvantage.

To increase awareness and promote learning of the impact of poverty and/or disadvantage with decision makers and wider society through developing and supporting the voices of those in poverty and/or suffering disadvantage.

To encourage the development of partnerships across agencies in local communities and in the city of Dundee and its environs; working together to alleviate and prevent poverty with those in poverty and/or disadvantage.

To promote the elimination of discrimination (whether on the grounds of race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, poverty or otherwise).