How We Are Run

How is Healthwatch Medway run?

Healthwatch Medway is a new company which is:

Made up of a partnership between local voluntary organisations:
A social enterprise.
Also Community Interest Company (CIC)
Based on the 2nd Floor at Kingsley House, Balmoral Road, in Gillingham.

The voluntary organizations that make up Healthwatch Medway are:

	Medway Citizens Advice BureauThis organisation helps people to understand their rights.
	HANDS Rochester Volunteer CentreThis organisation helps people with volunteering.
	Medway Ethnic Minority ForumThis Forum helps make sure that people from Ethnic Minority backgrounds have equal rights.
	METRO Centre LtdThis is a charity that supports people with self-identified lesbian/gay/bisexual people, those who cannot express their sexuality due to homophobia and heterosexism, and those questioning their sexuality.

All of the voluntary organisations that make up Healthwatch Medway are represented on the Healthwatch Medway Board of Executive Directors.

Also on the Board of Healthwatch Medway are 4 Non-Executive Directors - who are people from the Medway community.

To support the Healthwatch Medway Executive Board of Directors to run well, Healthwatch Medway has Independent Chairperson, who is a Non Executive Director of Medway Healthwatch.

Useful Documents to do with Healthwatch Medway CIC

The 'Protocol (set of rules) used for decision making at Healthwatch Medway' can be found if you click HERE
'Healthwatch Medway CIC Principles of Good Governance' can be found if you click HERE
'Healthwatch Medway Complaints Policy' can be found if you click HERE