Open, accountable, built for community benefit.
We think an organisation asking others to trust it should be an open book. Here's how Brighter Days is set up, governed and held to account.
Where the money goes
Brighter Days has an asset lock. Whatever it earns or is given goes into the work, and none of it can be paid out to anyone as profit. If the organisation ever closes, what is left goes to another organisation with the same kind of lock, not to its directors.
Company details
Brighter Days (Shropshire) CIC is a community interest company limited by guarantee, on the register at Companies House and overseen by the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies.
Our documents
We publish our governing documents here, and add our annual report and accounts as each is filed.
How we are governed
Brighter Days has two directors, Fiona and Paul, who are married. Both are named at Companies House as people with significant control, and the registered office is their home address.
Fiona is also a director of Shropshire European Organisation and of Shropshire Bereavement Group, two of the organisations in the partnership. That is a matter of public record and it is also the reason the partnership exists: these are relationships she has built over years, not introductions arranged for a funding round.
Where any of us has an interest in a decision, it is declared and recorded before the decision is taken.
We intend to bring further directors onto the board who are independent of the partnership, and we will say who they are when they are appointed.
Directors are not paid for being directors. Any payment for work done is agreed and recorded openly.
Where the money comes from
Brighter Days is paid for work it does, and it applies for grants. Today that is a mix of commissioned work with a university and paid services to other organisations.
Our first annual accounts are not due until 2028, so there is not yet a filed set of numbers to look at. This is what the picture looks like in the meantime.
A question about how we're run?
We're happy to answer anything about our governance, finances or how we make decisions. Just ask.