Music and the mind

WHO ARE MUSIC AND THE MIND?

We are a Community Interest Company, a not-for-profit organisation, a project primarily centred on anti-stigma and discrimination within Mental Health, with the aid of Music, Art, Leisure and Culture at the heart of everything.
Our vision is to develop individual projects, which use the medium of Music, Art, Leisure and Culture to reduce status anxiety and challenge Stigma, by promoting a universal awareness of Mental Health.

Music and the mind a not for profit organisation, a Community Interest Company we aim to network through with numbers of people who have experienced added mental distress, brought on by stigma and discrimination. We want to work together with everyone working towards a world without stigma or discrimination mental health.

We try to bring people together with the medium of Music, art, culture and leisure activities to sharing our ideas and experiences. We aim to speak out against those who discriminate and stigmatize human beings already suffering from mental health illnesses. We aim to raise awareness and breaking down the barriers built through years of little or no education on the quality of life being inflicted through ignorance on mental health sufferers.

Therefore, we support each other to find positive and constructive ways of letting people know what it is like to live with a mental health problem.

Open Up is supported and facilitated by a central team in London and 9 Regional Co-ordinators, or ‘on the ground experts’, working across England and Wales. A project works alongside of Mental Health Media and Time to Change, Mind and Open UP.

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WHAT IS A CIC (Community Interest Company?)

A community interest company (CIC) is a limited liability company with the specific

aim of providing benefit to a community. It is a social enterprise and ‘not-for-profit’ projects serving communities throughout the UK, which combine the pursuit of a social purpose with commercial activities.

A CIC is incorporated under the Companies Act 1985, by the Registrar of Companies and has to conform to company and insolvency law in the same way as other UK companies.

Listed CIC’s, (of which we are one), have to comply with the Combined Code on Corporate Governance or any other codes (such as those issued by institutional investors).

There is greater transparency of operation as a CIC has to deliver an annual community interest company report about its activities for the public record, which includes details of assets transferred for less than market value.

A community interest company has continuity of purpose. Once it is incorporated it will continue in existence until it is either dissolved or converted to a charity. If it is dissolved, the residual assets will be preserved for the community rather than distributed to members.