When Charity Goes Wrong, Ep. 1: Kids Company

<p>In August 2015, one of the country’s most prominent children’s charities, Kids Company, was declared insolvent. Its collapse has been followed by almost a decade of legal wrangling as the charity’s trustees pushed back against regulatory findings of mismanagement.</p><p>In episode one of When Charity Goes Wrong, Third Sector journalist Lucinda Rouse hears from Andy Gough, a former Kids Company centre manager, about the realities of working for the charity’s charismatic leader, the late Camila Batmanghelidjh.</p><p>Philip Kirkpatrick, a partner at the law firm Bates Wells, charts Kids Company’s decline and questions how things could have turned out differently for the charity.</p><p>And the Charity Commission’s chief executive, David Holdsworth, lays out the necessary ingredients for a successfully governed charity.</p><br><p><strong>Written and presented by:</strong>&nbsp;Lucinda Rouse</p><p><strong>Producer:</strong>&nbsp;Nav Pal</p><p><strong>Executive producer:</strong>&nbsp;Ollie Peart</p> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>