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1. The Mental Health Social Enterprise called MESOMOCO C.I.C. MEntal health non-profit SOcial enterprise in MObile phone COmputing,... helping frustratedly unemployed mental distress sufferers restart their careers, and get back into work. Welcome to the website of MESOMOCO C.I.C. MESOMOCO C.I.C. is a non-profit social enterprise, a limited liability Community Interest Company, founded and motivated by personal experiences in unemployment, life as a carer, struggles in mental health; and a passion for software engineering, mobile phones, the internet, and computing. (see the FAQ for more detail, and the backstory.) We have two missions, we call them: 'Computing via Mobiles' and ... 'Mental Health - Brightening the Future'. These missions are tightly bound together and facilitate each other. We sum them up with the following mission statements, 'Computing via Mobiles' is the focus and direction, essential as a common interest bringing the mental distress sufferers together in team work; and is: "Developing, marketing and selling software, and other digital content for mobile phones, and the mobile internet, across the world, over-the-air, on-demand,... direct to handsets; content that's compelling; content which is highly valued, and an excellent service or source of information; content that'll get handset users going back for more; content which inspires devotion from customers and partners." The 'Brightening the Future' mission statement is: "Creating employment, and, improving the 'quality of life', for people like us, who suffer from, or have suffered mental illness, and are out of work; teaming-up with them, collaborating, and co-operating with them, in a rehabilitation process ... using enterprise as therapy; ...eventually making a living, careers, and a Scarborough success story; inspiring enthusiasm and a thirst for life, via our common purpose, and interest in 'computing via mobiles'."
We see ourselves as several things: a mental health self-help group, a team, a workers co-operative, a social enterprise, a training scheme, a job creation scheme, a mental health awareness intiative, a local benevolent organisation, a competitive international business, a software house, content providers, and specialists in computing via mobiles. (This doesn't mean we're not focused, ... we're very focused ... it's often the nature of social enterprises to be viewable from multiple perspectives.) Eventually, after achieving self-sufficiency and growth, we also see ourselves as, a 'money pump' ... pumping money into British mental health charities, good-causes, projects and initiatives; and general good causes in our local Scarborough community. We need your help. As you can see, we aim to do considerable social good. To be successful, and to get the wheels turning we need you! Please help us, we are passionate about what we believe in, and what we can do; we think we've got some great ideas; we're doing all we can to take our ideas forward; to gather some momentum; and build something truly great. The thing is, we have very limited resources. If you too, are unemployed, have suffered mental distress, and are in receipt of health related benefits; and have even an embryonic interest in computing ... get in touch with us. We're building a team of people just like you. You could volunteer with us, we aim to take volunteer effort, and eventually, through enterprise, develop it into paid employment. We really do have limited resources, to start with, we don't have any working capital. (We're calling this 'Ultimate Bootstrapping'.) Our major priority is fundraising; ... and we don't have anywhere to meet, or anywhere central in Scarborough to work - we could do with a real office, ... we could also do with some basic office facilities and equipment ... if you feel you'd like to sponsor us, or help us, in anyway, ... money, space, training, equipment, knowledge, professional services ... your time as an expert, or mentor, I.T. skills, anything ... please, please, please, get in touch with us. Anything and everything will be much appreciated. Thank you. Please take a look around our site, to find out more details; and maybe you could subscribe (freely) to our RSS news blog, ... to keep in touch, and read our news; ... and it'd be a great help if you'd share our website with the world by bookmarking us at your favourite social bookmarking site. (links are in our page footers) Our site contains the following pages (which are navigable from the links at the head of every page, ...) 1. Home. This page, you're reading it now. 2. Purpose. A full description of our mission, a detailed look at what we are doing. 3. Vision. How we see ourselves developing and growing; ...our ambitions, and aspirations. 4. Join. A discussion about who should join us and why, and what you'd be joining. 5. Sponsor. The How? and Why? of helping us. 6. News. An introduction to our Newsfeed blog. 7. FAQ. Answers & background information. 8. Also, we are developing a presence on MySpace and Facebook (where you can join 'The Friends of MESOMOCO') and YouTube where there's a video blogcast. Thanks Again. STOP PRESS: We're listed at Apple iTunes too, with similar mp3 audio podcasts for your iPod/mp3 players. STOP PRESS: There are audio, video, and screensaver, mobile phone downloads at wap.mesomoco.org.uk, browse there via a wap enabled mobile and a good tariff or pre-pay deal. |
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You can download our audio mp3 series from the WAP site too, to your mobile phone, here's part 1 and 2
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POSTAL ADDRESS: PO BOX 442 SCARBOROUGH YO11 9DA UNITED KINGDOM | ||
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Donate, visit our audio/video, and join our friends: Add news.mesomoco.org.uk/feed/ to your news reader: |
RICHARD'S MOBILE: 07772 2 74 396 OFFICE PHONE: 0845 4 731 594 | |||
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MESOMOCO C.I.C. is a non-profit, asset locked, limited liability Community Interest Company, limited by shares, (opportunities for non-profit investors only), reg'd in England & Wales, # 6427238 |
EMAIL: RICHARDALANCOWLING @YAHOO.CO.UK (c) 2007-2008, MESOMOCO C.I.C. MESOMOCO and associated logo are MESOMOCO C.I.C. trademarks. |