Wednesday 11 March 2015

Music To My Ears!

A leading children’s charity is facing a crisis after three of its directors resigned amid an apparent row over funding, it was revealed yesterday.
And it couldn’t happen to a more deserving ‘charity’!
… concerns about the way the charity is run are understood to have led some senior managers to raise issues with its board of trustees. The resignations of interim finance director Diane Hamilton, human resources chief Adrian Stones and director of development Mandy Lloyd then followed.
Heh! Get out of this one if you can, Camila!
A statement from Kids Company said: ‘It was with great regret that they felt unable to continue working within the organisation because of the uncertainty of funding, which led to high levels of stress in the workplace which was unsustainable.’
Right, right. It’s all the fault of that wicked government, isn’t it?
But a source close to the directors reportedly said: ‘These departures are a direct result of these employees’ doubts about the future of Kids Company ... The trustees were told of their doubts but they don’t seem to have reacted at all.’
Oh boy! Now there’s blood in the water, will the sharks begin circling?
Miss Batmanghelidjh said that an independent audit in 2014 showed ‘the charity was well run but lacked funding’. But critics have questioned whether it is over-staffed – it employs around 600 people.
I look forward to this story developing.

6 comments:

Ted Treen said...

"...critics have questioned whether it is over-staffed – it employs around 600 people..."

See Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy.

It's inevitable

Anonymous said...

She might be able to afford some normal sized clothes when she stops stuffing herself with public cash!

Anonymous said...

She was on the London local news yesterday evening trying to convince us it was a smear campaign. She said they were looking at some taking legal action over some of the stuff in the Spectator article that kicked this of;

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9437932/the-trouble-with-kids-company/


Anonymous said...

Why don't you call them up and go and see for yourself what's going on there?

Furor Teutonicus said...

XX Miss Batmanghelidjh XX

What?

Batman...?

Is "ghelidjh" Some code for going down on Robin?

JuliaM said...

"See Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy."

Spot on! Even more so when you have a 'charismatic' founder.

"She said they were looking at some taking legal action over some of the stuff in the Spectator article that kicked this of;"

Well, why not? It's only money (that should be helping poor kiddies) isn't it?