Our organisation

Mindapples is a social project that uses commerce and partnership working to achieve a truly global reach. To keep us on track, it's important that we get our organisational structure right, commercially and ethically.

We are a non-profit Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, number 07264252. Founder Andy Gibson is Company Director and Esther King is Company Secretary. Our charitable object as an organisation is as follows: "Mindapples is a not for profit community, campaigning, research and services organisation whose object is to promote mentally healthy living and working for everyone, worldwide."

We're slowly evolving our organisational structure to embed the ethics of the business into our legal framework, starting with the following elements:

• The non-profit company owns all our users' data and the Mindapples brand on behalf of the community, but all community members will have the right to become guarantors of the company too and participate in voting on key company decisions
• Individuals and organisations who want to use the Mindapples brand and methodology can join the community and license our work for their own use.
• We also need to offer tax efficient opportunities to private and commercial donors who want to contribute to the movement.
• And we want to offer a modest return on 'sweat equity' for the people who have been giving their time for free to get things going

I'm passionate about embodying the values of our community and the Mindapples campaign in how we use money to fulfil our objectives. I want Mindapples to be fair, effective, open and rewarding for everyone connected with it, including staff, volunteers, clients, advisors, investors, donors, community members and even passers by such as yourself. Watch this space for more details, and if you think we're not living up to our standards or practicing what we preach, please call us to account by e-mailing me at andy[at]mindapples.org, or posting on our blog.

Andy Gibson, Head Gardener