Here you’ll find a living case study of Head and Heart CIC; documenting my journey as I try to establish a one-person Community Interest Company as a vehicle for mission-centered, sustainable employment.

Everything here is released under an MIT open‑source licence, so you’re free to adapt and reuse it in whatever way you wish. If there’s a resource you’d like me to develop, you can share your ideas through the Feedback page.

Build It Yourself? Part 1: A Proportionate Architecture [14/07/26]

How can a smaller nonprofit organisation centralise data for people who haven’t been hired yet, working in departments that don’t exist yet, doing work that no one has thought of yet?

Launching DIY Data Control for Nonprofits [07/07/26]

I want to listen to the self-taught IT champions in nonprofit organisations who I hope to build fully governed, secure shared data systems.

My Governance Framework [18/05/26]

This is the governance framework that I have implemented to try to turn Head and Heart CIC’s mission into the defining driver of its activities.