Standing Orders for Head and Heart CIC (H&H)
Date: 13/05/2026
Governance Processes
The current Standing Orders shall be published publicly on the H&H GitHub repository.
Any amendments to the Standing Orders will be documented on the H&H GitHub repository, with a clear explanation of the reasons for the change.
The definitive version of all governance documents will be available at https://github.com/head-and-heart-cic/public/tree/main/governance
For convenience, a copy of the current Standing Orders will be maintained on the H&H website at https://headandheart.info/standing-orders
Mission-Focused Activity Rules
The director will keep an ongoing log of hours spent on H&H business, categorised as follows:
- Mission-focused – Activities that primarily deliver the CIC’s stated community-benefit purpose as defined in the CIC36;
- Beneficiary-focused – Other activities that directly benefit individuals, charities, community groups, Community Interest Companies, or small private enterprises;
- Company-focused – Activities that primarily benefit the Company itself, such as administration and compliance;
- Externally-focused – Activities that primarily benefit external organisations or networks rather than H&H or its beneficiaries;
- Other commercial activity – Work undertaken on a commercial basis that supports the CIC’s sustainability but does not directly deliver community benefit.
The director will record which activities are considered to be on-contract for the purposes of calculating remuneration.
The annual returns to the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies will include (in addition to the information required by the standard CIC annual reporting framework):
1) A breakdown of hours of activity spent on each category during the previous year, with explanations for time spent on beneficiary-focused activities, externally-focused activities and other commercial activities.
2) A breakdown of hours of activity treated as on-contract for the purposes of director remuneration, with justification for the remuneration claimed for any activity that is not mission-focused.
Note: During the initial growth phase of H&H, only mission-focused activities will be treated as on-contract.
Sustainable Remuneration Rules
The director will not treat any hours as being on-contract until H&H has accumulated reserves of £800 from earned income.
When this threshold is first reached, the maximum number of on-contract hours that the director may claim in the following four-week period will be set to less than 50% of the available cash reserves.
A new cap of less than 50% of the available cash reserve will be calculated every four weeks to apply for the subsequent four-week period.
Note: During the initial growth phase, only mission-focused activities up to the cap will be treated as on-contract.
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