Kids Company scamming charity? Or just incompetent management?

[FortuitousFluke]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40778365

Holy thread necro Batman(ghelidjh).

Looks like Batmanghelidjh and Yentob, amongst others, may be banned from holding directorships for a while. I fully expect them to be as humble and contrite as they were during the select committee interviews.

I wouldn't want either of them anywhere near a business I was involved in.

 

[MassiveJim]

what actually happened to the 3 million ?

 

[Rannoch]

Awful people.

 

[JRS]

Necro, but a fairly important one.

Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh demands apology from Michael Gove and criticises ‘smear campaign’.

Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh has demanded Michael Gove apologise to children who lost support from the collapsed charity after she won a High Court disqualification battle.

She accused the senior minister on Thursday of having been “really disingenuous” and hit out over a “smear campaign”, accusing former Downing Street aide Dominic Cummings of briefing against the organisation.

The charity, which supported vulnerable young people in London and Bristol, had a number of famous backers, including former prime minister David Cameron, but it was wound up in 2015.

The closure came shortly after police launched a subsequently-dropped investigation into unfounded allegations of abuse and exploitation, following the broadcast of a BBC Newsnight report.

Earlier this month, the charity’s trustees said they had been “exonerated” when Mrs Justice Falk concluded after a 10-week trial that no disqualification order should be made against them.

Gosh, imagine my total lack of surprise that both Gove and Cummings appear to have been involved in something underhanded and crappy...

 

[Arsonist]

Necro, but a fairly important one.

Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh demands apology from Michael Gove and criticises ‘smear campaign’.



Gosh, imagine my total lack of surprise that both Gove and Cummings appear to have been involved in something underhanded and crappy...

Matt Hancock too - he authorised and pushed through the original £3m just a week before the charity collapsed. Seems old habits die hard.

 

[mmj_uk]

Most charities are bent as a three pound note. Most politicians are bent as a three pound note.

I was thinking the same earlier watching an advert asking for money to build water wells in Africa so that they have access to clean water, charities have been using that line for 30-40 years if the money went to where it was supposed to Africa should have better water infrastructure than the rest of the world by now. Money donated to big corporate charities just gets wasted on CEO's and corrupt regimes in the countries they're claiming to help.

 

[Dis86]

I was thinking the same earlier watching an advert asking for money to build water wells in Africa so that they have access to clean water, charities have been using that line for 30-40 years if the money went to where it was supposed to Africa should have better water infrastructure than the rest of the world by now. Money donated to big corporate charities just gets wasted on CEO's and corrupt regimes in the countries they're claiming to help.

Spend £100 on bribes so £1 can get through to where it needs to be.

 

[StriderX]

Well I have to admit that I held disparaging views of her at the time, in retrospect it would appear to have been unreasonable.

I hope the truth will out.

 

[dowie]

Gosh, imagine my total lack of surprise that both Gove and Cummings appear to have been involved in something underhanded and crappy...

That seems like quite a reach in this instance... Do you really believe she's been exonerated here or that the criticism of the charity was underhand?

 

[Jokester]

Well I have to admit that I held disparaging views of her at the time, in retrospect it would appear to have been unreasonable.

I hope the truth will out.

The problem is, they've been exonerated of the physcal and sexual abuse allegations, as far as I'm aware the rest of it is still true?

 

[R.P.L]

The problem is, they've been exonerated of the physcal and sexual abuse allegations, as far as I'm aware the rest of it is still true?

I tried to have a read through the articles to piece together events, and it seemed like it closed due to financial mismanagement rather than the abuse allegations which have now been thrown out. TLDR - I agree.

 

[Kenai]

The problem is, they've been exonerated of the physcal and sexual abuse allegations, as far as I'm aware the rest of it is still true?

Sounds like this is related to financial competence to me? The abuse stuff was dropped long before ever getting near a court wasn't it?

The Official Receiver (OR) brought High Court proceedings against Ms Batmanghelidjh, as well as seven former trustees, including the BBC’s ex-creative director Alan Yentob.

The OR argued Ms Batmanghelidjh and the former trustees were “unfit” to hold company directorships as a result of their handling of the charity.

But, in a ruling on February 12, Mrs Justice Falk rejected the case and praised the “enormous dedication” the founder showed vulnerable young people.

“The public need no protection from these trustees,” she ruled.

 

[R.P.L]

The article on the ruling seems to say that the financial incompetence thing was not legit:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/...alan-yentob-kids-company-charity-b919618.html

The judge added in her ruling that there were no allegations in the case of “dishonesty, bad faith, inappropriate personal gain or any other want of probity against any of the defendants”.

As usual, I don't know what to believe. It seems like everything is reported in the way that will provide the least clarity and the most scope for interpretation, and that makes me suspicious.