October 2009

Advisory Board and Governance proposals

We have published our proposals for discussion

Tuesday 20 October 2009 10:36 by Graham English

We seek to engage a wide variety of people in Fontis in a wide variety of ways. 

Today our proposals for our Advisory Board and Governae are published.  You can find them on the About pages of this site or by clicking here.  We are also opening up a discussion thread in the Forum (for which you need to sign on to the site) so you can comment there, or by contacting Mark or Graham.

Fontis - its legal

Fontis comes into existence after Incorporation at Companies House

Thursday 15 October 2009 15:25 by Graham English

We received confirmation this week that Fontis was Incorporated at Companies House on Sunday 11th October (yes Sunday!).

So, we are a Company Limited by Guarantee, a standard form of company for Social Enterprses, and have a defined social purpose bound into our Articles of Asociation, asset locks and the normal legal structures of a Social Enterprise.

We shall publish for comment our proposed Governance Structure (which is a separate document not forming part of our Articles) and our Membership proposals elsewhere on this site in the next few days.

Putting shared decision making into practice

New Health Foundation Programme

Thursday 15 October 2009 15:25 by Mark Butler

 

Shared Decision Making, the Health Foundation's new programme, is seeking a multi-disciplinary design team to explore how shared decision making can best be implemented into clinical practice

http://www.health.org.uk/news/sdm_into_practice.html