Board Meeting - 25th September 2024

The Healthy Minds Board of trustees met on Wednesday evening, 25th September 2024, with five trustees present, and the Chief Officer, Business Sustainability Manager and Finance Assistant (notes), also in attendance.  
The board agreed a revised timetable for the (re)launch of our Membership scheme and arrangements. We intend confirming the date of the launch at the forthcoming Healthy Minds AGM. We expect the launch date to be early in the new year. This will allow time to develop materials for membership applications, complete website preparations, agree data management and ensure all legal requirements are satisfied. Trustees will continue to give oversight to arrangements and in particular to legal requirements. 
The board received a progress update on impact reporting. We look forward to efficient reporting on impact in a number of ways, to different audiences, including: the public, service users, potential donors, volunteers and staff; funders, commissioners and our auditor; the board. The board will receive a further update at our next meeting in December. 
The Chief Officer gave a presentation on the 2024-26 business plan. The presentation made clear the relationship between strategy, business plan, service operational plans and individual work plans. The board discussed various points of detail in relation to the business plan: how the business plan has been developed, the review of processes and content by the Development Sub Committee and the relationship of the business plan to risk management. The board approved the Business Plan. 
The board plans to hold Healthy Minds’ AGM on 27th November 2024, to follow on from the Forum planned for that day. The board received 2024-25 Quarter 1 accounts. New dates will be set up for the Finance Sub Committee, with aim of meeting four times a year, on the second Tuesday of the second month in each quarter. This will align our Finance Sub Committee meetings to the finalisation of quarterly accounts, rather than to board meeting dates. 
The board also received the Chief Officer’s report, considered its own development requirements and ended its meeting by reviewing its own governance arrangements. 

Paul Hunt 
Chair of Trustees, 3rd December 2024 
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