About Mellow Parenting

Structure, Governance and Management
Mellow Parenting was founded in 2006 and incorporated as a Company Ltd by Guarantee with Charitable status on the 1st January 2009.

Mellow Parenting Ltd is governed by the Board of Trustees which consists of members of the Organisation appointed as prescribed by the Memorandum and Articles of Association.

Trustees serve an initial term of three years and are eligible for further terms of three years. Trustees are sought in a variety of ways involving exploration of the field of potential candidates, including recommendation from existing trustees and supporters or general advertisement

Full Board of Trustee meetings are held seven to eight times per year to review and agree major areas of policy. One of these meetings takes place over a full day. It is used to review performance over the past year, including Board performance, and agree key objectives for the coming year.

Responsibility for reviewing key areas of activity and policy are delegated to committees that report back to the Board meetings. The committees may include specialist co-opted members as well as trustees. These committees monitor and scrutinise the work of the Organisation.

The committees include:

Funding Group
Licensing Group
Human Resource Group
Policy Group
Finance Group

The day-to-day running of Mellow Parenting and the exercise of executive responsibility is delegated to the Executive Director

Governing Document
The Governing Document of Mellow Parenting Ltd is the Memorandum and Articles of Association established in September 2008 and implemented on the 1st January 2009

Objectives and Activities
The Objectives of Mellow Parenting as set out in its governing documents (Memorandum and Articles of Association) are:

The advancement of the mental health and development of children.
Education, training and research to enhance the capabilities, skills and understanding of parent and carers to enable them to support the mental health and development of children.
Provision of training and support for families where parents or carers or children have or are at risk of experiencing difficulties in parents/carer and child relationships or mental health difficulties.

The Aims of Mellow Parenting are:

To develop parenting programmes for families experiencing relationship problems with their children
To train practitioners in these programmes
To support their implementation and research their effectiveness
To publish information and findings about Mellow Parenting Programmes

Programmes

Training

What people say

"I have enjoyed getting to know others in the training and feel sharing experiences has given me an understanding of various difficulties people experienced"