To advance the training of apprentices by craftsmen already engaged in the craft of winning, splitting, dressing and laying Collyweston Stone Slate

  To promote research into the uses of Collyweston Slate and into methods of preparing and dressing slate for use and to publish the information gained from such research.

  To achieve the above, the Memorandum of Association gives wide ranging powers including purchase, lease, procuring donations, grants etc., establish and support any charitable association or institution and to subscribe monies for charitable purposes.