The fat women, most of you guys like insulting who was born premature so with medical issues, and the other directors of Kids Company are innocent.
Bid to ban Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh and trustees fails in High Court | Evening Standard
The founder and trustees of former children’s charity Kids Company have been exonerated by a High Court judge after an failed attempt to bar them from being company directors in the future.
The charity, which supported vulnerable children and young people in London and Bristol, collapsed in 2015 amid claims of financial impropriety and allegations of historic sexual abuse.
A police investigation into abuse and exploitation allegations – first raised by BBC’s Newsnight – at Kids Company was eventually dropped seven months later.
Proceedings were brought in the High Court against the Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh and seven trustees, including former BBC creative director Alan Yentob.
They were accused of overseeing an “unsustainable business model” as the charity’s financial circumstances grew increasingly dire, and allegedly failed to act to try to prevent the charity’s collapse.
But Mrs Justice Falk today dismissed the case, hailing the efforts of the Kids Company leadership to try to survive and concluding the charity would not have closed if the initial allegations had not hit the news.
“The charity sector depends on there being capable individuals with a range of different skills who are prepared to take on trusteeship roles. Most charities would, I would think, be delighted to have available to them individuals with the abilities and experience that the trustees in this case possess”, said the judge.
“It is vital that the actions of public bodies do not have the effect of dissuading able and experienced individuals from becoming or remaining charity trustees.”
She said disqualification proceedings were “not warranted” in this case, adding that court battles without proper merits “deter many talented individuals who take the trouble to understand and appreciate the risks either from charitable trusteeship at all.”
“The public need no protection from them”, she said. “On the contrary, I have a great deal of respect for the care and commitment they showed in highly challenging circumstances.”
The judge found that Ms Batmanghelidjh was not a “de facto director” of the charity so could not be subject to disqualification proceedings, going on to praise the “enormous dedication she showed to vulnerable young people over many years and what she managed to achieve in building a charity which, until 2014, was widely regarded as a highly successful one doing what senior members of the government rightly described as incredible work.
“It would be unfortunate if the events the focus of this decision were allowed to eclipse those achievements.”
Kids Company and the work of Ms Batmanghelidjh had received praise from across the political and celebrity worlds, including words of support from then-Prime Minister David Cameron.
The government had agreed to a bail out grant just before the charity closed, after it had struggled to cope with a dramatic increase in demand for its services.
The charity had reached out to wealthy benefactors and put in place a survival plan, but was derailed by the media allegations and criminal investigation.
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”.
A statement from Kids Company former trustees Alan Yentob, Richard Handover, Francesca Robinson, Jane Tyler, Andrew Webster, Erica Bolton, Vincent O’Brien welcomed today’s ruling, saying: “We are pleased that finally the facts have been gathered and assessed in a court of law, and that Mrs Justice Falk has exonerated both the former trustees and Kids Company CEO, Camila Batmanghelidjh"
Bid to ban Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh and trustees fails in High Court | Evening Standard
The founder and trustees of former children’s charity Kids Company have been exonerated by a High Court judge after an failed attempt to bar them from being company directors in the future.
The charity, which supported vulnerable children and young people in London and Bristol, collapsed in 2015 amid claims of financial impropriety and allegations of historic sexual abuse.
A police investigation into abuse and exploitation allegations – first raised by BBC’s Newsnight – at Kids Company was eventually dropped seven months later.
Proceedings were brought in the High Court against the Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh and seven trustees, including former BBC creative director Alan Yentob.
They were accused of overseeing an “unsustainable business model” as the charity’s financial circumstances grew increasingly dire, and allegedly failed to act to try to prevent the charity’s collapse.
But Mrs Justice Falk today dismissed the case, hailing the efforts of the Kids Company leadership to try to survive and concluding the charity would not have closed if the initial allegations had not hit the news.
“The charity sector depends on there being capable individuals with a range of different skills who are prepared to take on trusteeship roles. Most charities would, I would think, be delighted to have available to them individuals with the abilities and experience that the trustees in this case possess”, said the judge.
“It is vital that the actions of public bodies do not have the effect of dissuading able and experienced individuals from becoming or remaining charity trustees.”
She said disqualification proceedings were “not warranted” in this case, adding that court battles without proper merits “deter many talented individuals who take the trouble to understand and appreciate the risks either from charitable trusteeship at all.”
“The public need no protection from them”, she said. “On the contrary, I have a great deal of respect for the care and commitment they showed in highly challenging circumstances.”
The judge found that Ms Batmanghelidjh was not a “de facto director” of the charity so could not be subject to disqualification proceedings, going on to praise the “enormous dedication she showed to vulnerable young people over many years and what she managed to achieve in building a charity which, until 2014, was widely regarded as a highly successful one doing what senior members of the government rightly described as incredible work.
“It would be unfortunate if the events the focus of this decision were allowed to eclipse those achievements.”
Kids Company and the work of Ms Batmanghelidjh had received praise from across the political and celebrity worlds, including words of support from then-Prime Minister David Cameron.
The government had agreed to a bail out grant just before the charity closed, after it had struggled to cope with a dramatic increase in demand for its services.
The charity had reached out to wealthy benefactors and put in place a survival plan, but was derailed by the media allegations and criminal investigation.
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”.
A statement from Kids Company former trustees Alan Yentob, Richard Handover, Francesca Robinson, Jane Tyler, Andrew Webster, Erica Bolton, Vincent O’Brien welcomed today’s ruling, saying: “We are pleased that finally the facts have been gathered and assessed in a court of law, and that Mrs Justice Falk has exonerated both the former trustees and Kids Company CEO, Camila Batmanghelidjh"
Now calm down and make the missus a cup of tea. Man, know your place!
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