Kids Company In Court
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Saw in the news about Kids Company which was a charity a few years ago that was run by that woman who dressed in large curtains and basically ran the company to the ground.
She and Alan Yentob (ex BBC executive) are in court brought up by the Official Receiver.
It was famous because David Cameron gave the charity £3m of Government money days before it went under.
There was a documentary as this was all happening back in 2015 which if you watch it shows how stupid she was including paying a 30 odd yr old woman her living expenses etc which kind of goes against the "Kids" bit of a charity!!!
BBC Documentary on Kids Company
She and Alan Yentob (ex BBC executive) are in court brought up by the Official Receiver.
It was famous because David Cameron gave the charity £3m of Government money days before it went under.
There was a documentary as this was all happening back in 2015 which if you watch it shows how stupid she was including paying a 30 odd yr old woman her living expenses etc which kind of goes against the "Kids" bit of a charity!!!
BBC Documentary on Kids Company
Edited by petop on Tuesday 20th October 13:47
I actually have a shred of sympathy with Cameron on this one, she was a hugely charismatic and influential person who had a lot of people’s ear. A lot of stories came out at the time about very little Monet reaching the intended causes, huge management overheads and personal support staff, plus some ex-employees painting an interesting picture of the goings-on there but whenever the money ran out, she’d call Cameron and basically put him between a rock and a hard place, stump up the cash, fund my extravagant lifestyle or be the one who closed a kids charity.
I’m not going to pre-judge her but I hope the court take their time and hold the appropriate people to account, it’s interesting that it’s the OR bringing the case to court though only to request a ban on directorships and No one else on a charge of potential mis-appropriation of funds etc
I’m not going to pre-judge her but I hope the court take their time and hold the appropriate people to account, it’s interesting that it’s the OR bringing the case to court though only to request a ban on directorships and No one else on a charge of potential mis-appropriation of funds etc
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 20th October 13:19
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The founder and former chief executive of Kids Company, Camila Batmanghelidjh, has been exonerated by a court of allegations that the charity she created collapsed because she had failed to operate it on a financially sustainable basis.
After a three-and-a-half-year legal case, the court threw out claims by the official receiver that Batmanghelidjh and seven former trustees of the charity had failed to properly manage the charity in the tumultuous final months of its existence.
The judge said that while the charity, which went into insolvency in August 2015, had experienced cashflow difficulties, its board had taken steps to ensure it had a plan to manage the challenges it faced, and the charity may have survived had it not been brought down by unsubstantiated allegations of sexual abuse.
There had been no dishonesty, bad faith or personal gain on the part of Batmanghelidjh or the trustees at any stage, Mrs Justice Falk said. Nor had there been any inappropriate expenditure on children assisted by the charity.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/mi...
After a three-and-a-half-year legal case, the court threw out claims by the official receiver that Batmanghelidjh and seven former trustees of the charity had failed to properly manage the charity in the tumultuous final months of its existence.
The judge said that while the charity, which went into insolvency in August 2015, had experienced cashflow difficulties, its board had taken steps to ensure it had a plan to manage the challenges it faced, and the charity may have survived had it not been brought down by unsubstantiated allegations of sexual abuse.
There had been no dishonesty, bad faith or personal gain on the part of Batmanghelidjh or the trustees at any stage, Mrs Justice Falk said. Nor had there been any inappropriate expenditure on children assisted by the charity.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/mi...
Fittster said:
The founder and former chief executive of Kids Company, Camila Batmanghelidjh, has been exonerated by a court of allegations that the charity she created collapsed because she had failed to operate it on a financially sustainable basis.
After a three-and-a-half-year legal case, the court threw out claims by the official receiver that Batmanghelidjh and seven former trustees of the charity had failed to properly manage the charity in the tumultuous final months of its existence.
The judge said that while the charity, which went into insolvency in August 2015, had experienced cashflow difficulties, its board had taken steps to ensure it had a plan to manage the challenges it faced, and the charity may have survived had it not been brought down by unsubstantiated allegations of sexual abuse.
There had been no dishonesty, bad faith or personal gain on the part of Batmanghelidjh or the trustees at any stage, Mrs Justice Falk said. Nor had there been any inappropriate expenditure on children assisted by the charity.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/mi...
Wonder what the costs of this were ...After a three-and-a-half-year legal case, the court threw out claims by the official receiver that Batmanghelidjh and seven former trustees of the charity had failed to properly manage the charity in the tumultuous final months of its existence.
The judge said that while the charity, which went into insolvency in August 2015, had experienced cashflow difficulties, its board had taken steps to ensure it had a plan to manage the challenges it faced, and the charity may have survived had it not been brought down by unsubstantiated allegations of sexual abuse.
There had been no dishonesty, bad faith or personal gain on the part of Batmanghelidjh or the trustees at any stage, Mrs Justice Falk said. Nor had there been any inappropriate expenditure on children assisted by the charity.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/mi...
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