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Mutuals in Parliament

Debates and Questions - News - All Party Parliamentary Groups

NHS Foundation Trusts - Governance Review

Peter Hunt of Mutuo and Chris Ham of the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, were commissioned to review the membership governance of NHS Foundation Trusts. Their report, published in July 2008 gives an interesting insight into how membership is beginning to influence NHS Foundation Trusts.

There are more than 23 million members of mutuals in the UK

Mutuals are organisations that are owned by, and run for the benefit of, their current and future members.

Mutuals take many forms and operate in a wide range of business and social environments. Most people recognise mutuals through one or more of the long established building societies, co-operatives, friendly societies and mutual insurers. But the sector encompasses many more types of organisations – some large and well established like housing associations, clubs and employee owned businesses to smaller, specialist bodies such as credit unions, football supporter trusts and community mutuals.

Peter Hunt

Chief Executive

Peter has been Chief Executive of Mutuo since 2001, which he founded as the first cross mutual sector body to promote mutual governance to opinion formers and decision makers.

Matthew Ball

Head of Public Affairs

For the last ten years, Matthew has worked as a public affairs specialist. He provides advice and support to mutual sector trade associations and works with Government to seek to influence the public policy agenda to expand the mutual sector.

Cliff Mills

Principal Associate and constitutional expert

As well as working as a consultant with Mutuo, Cliff Mills is a consultant at Cobbetts, solicitors in Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham. He is a leading expert in corporate governance and the law of mutual and co-operative organisations.

News about Mutuals

Follow the links for media articles of interest about the mutual sector

Law enables ’super-mutuals’

On 2nd March 2009, Parliament passed the first enabling Order to permit the creation of ’super-mutuals’ under Sir John Butterfill’s Private Members Bill - The Building Societies (Funding) Mutual Societies (Transfers) Act 2007.

Mutuo Board Members

Mutuo is governed by a Board of experts and practitioners from the mutual sector, representing a combined vast experience in working with complex member owned organisations.

Mutuals Forum 2009

This year’s event will be held at the Emirates Stadium, London on Thursday 22 October. This is the second national event to highlight the growing importance of mutuals to the UK economy and society.

This year’s conference is focussed on building stronger alliances between mutuals. The keynote speaker will be Rt. Hon. Ed Balls MP.