The Objects (Purposes) of SYG is to promote citizenship and the all-round education of its members through the spiritual, social, moral and physical development of young people from the greater Portadown area (and any other area specifies by the EA.) The purpose is to equip young people up to age of 25 with a set of core values, skills and dispositions that will enable them to: • feel valued as individuals and as contributing members of social groups in respectful, safe and purposeful environments; • have an understanding and respect for difference in terms of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and religion, and be advocates of tolerance, respect and mutual understanding; • see their place as valued members of the greater Portadown community, and be responsive to societal issues such as conservation, safe environments, abuse and addiction; and • enhance their personal leadership qualities to take up roles of responsibility within SYG or in any other setting. To the above ends, SYG was established to disseminate, through a team of paid and voluntary youth workers, good practice and positive role modelling appropriate to the needs and interests of young people, and to engage with them in a range of specific programmes and individual and group interactions within the setting and beyond, including residential experiences. The advancement of citizenship or community development,The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage