The Foundation is a Company Limited by guarantee whose purpose is to pursue the following charitable purposes:

To advance or assist in promoting nursing and midwifery education, practice and research with a view to improving the standard of care and to that end to endow awards, grants and scholarships;

To foster and assist in the care of Nurses and Midwives in times of illness and adversity;

To undertake any activity incidental or ancillary to the above purposes; and

Do all such other lawful things as are conducive or incidental to the attainment of any of the above purposes.