to think Camila Batmanghelidjh must be lying when she says she has done nothing wrong in her spending of Kid's Company Charity Funding?

[LuluJakey1]

She is like Jimmy Saville in that what she has been doing has been under all of all our noses and we have refused to speak up about it or believe it.

It is not just the luvvies who have been up close and personal with her- involved with the charity and CB at a very close level, some even Trustees. It is also the employees and the parents of children, the children themselves, the volunteers. We are not talking about a hidden mis-use of funding. We are talking aout a whole culture of open waste and self-indulgence.

I know it is from The Daily Mail but it is actually an interview with het.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3199527/My-heart-clear-says-Kids-Company-boss-Batmanghelidjh-admits-charity-paid-school-fees-employees-children-denies-wrongdoing.html

£5000 a month rent on an Art Deco House with private swimming pool - which houses a member of staff, and the swimming pool is used by CB but hot by any children- they are 'not allowed' (her words)

£40,000 chauffeur- now a specialist worker (according to CB). also has private school and therapist funding for his 2 children.

Staff( how many?) have their children sent to private schools because the job is stressful and it is part of a 'staff well-being package'

The Chauffeur's sister is also employed - now as a 'brilliant accountant', last summer as 'the woman who does my sewing' (mind you that would be a full-time job in itself, but it does imply the charity pays for those vile outfits much as I suspected)

25 young people given £769,000 a year funding - £31,000 a year each, to do nothing. They are CB's specially selected young people- many of whom have received funding for many years. She describes them as 'like a family, hanging round the house'. She deals with their funding herself.

Yet STILL CB complains staff should not have spoken up about any of this and implies those who have will suffer for it.

In my view this woman and her behaviours are corrupt, dishonest and immoral.

Are my views unreasonable? I feel this could be jus the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is yet to emerge and prosecutions will be very likely.

I think there should be a down- to the -bone, in-depth investigation of every aspect of the work of this charity and of CB. Not simply any concerns that have now been raised but a complete trawl of the spending, the practices and the behaviours of CB herself.

I came across this interview from 2006. Reading it with new eyes, it sounds rather... embellished. Which seems to be something of a CB trait. Very much doubt people stopped her in the street when, as she admits, she doesn't do much walking

www.theguardian.com/society/2006/dec/03/voluntarysector.childrensservices

I suspect the reason she's never turned on an oven is because she's always had someone to do it for her just like the chauffering

I agree with you Rousette. And given that these are children who have probably already faced very hurtful and damaging rejection, for her to be in a position of trust and do that again is borderline abuse. I suspect that a lot of what has been happening at KC involves some level of emotional abuse.

That gaurdian article is funny and worrying amongst all the name dropping there is mention of serious childrens trauma yet she talks about these kids like its nothing where is the privacy and confidentiality. She shouldnt be talking about any of her clients

Yes and the trouble is LazyLohan that sort of thing can't be proved, it will be put down to hearsay. To feel so rejected will be awful to kids who struggle. To 'rescue' a child and then reject them because they aren't your personal favourite any more is beyond the pale.

From that guardian article:

I do get called a lot by the media because there aren't very many people who can stick up for these children in what I call 'a sound-bite moment'. You have to do it in a split second.

It's all there: name dropping, showing off clients at cocktail parties, children being 'thermostatically impaired', enjoyment of shocking John Lewis staff, dodgy sense of right and wrong (her nephew and niece steal tassles from the furnishings at a smart hotel for her outfits).

But she can provide the media and anyone else in need with a sound bite.

You can't expect much else from the media. Plenty of people make a career out of providing sound bites. however we deserve better from the government.

I think it's all about 'power' actually on reflection. I think she thrives on power and now that has been questioned she is in deny deny deny mode.

I wonder what will happen to her after all this blows over I know she has got her beak in this food bank nonsense but will she start up something else in a few years?

I would like to think that justice is done for whatever she might be guilty of and she would then go away quietly, but I have a feeling that won't be the case. I think her power trip ego won't let her. At best, no one will listen.

Mrsjayy, I wonder if she will attempt a rent-a-gob career like Katie Hopkins.

I think she will carry on as before if people give her money. As long as she follows the correct procedures, is subject to scrutiny and doesn't receive government money, that is fine by me.

I hope she will no longer be the go to person for sound bites though.

I do want to hear more from the ministers who over ruled the advice of the civil service.

Moving I wholeheartedly agree with you there.

That Facebook thing is laughable. They just seem to be tapping into the sentiment that if you pin it all on an evil Tory government people will buy it. That's a hugely ignorant viewpoint to take, because CB was their poster girl for 'the big society' and KCs collapse is a big embarrassment to them.

They also have hysterical letters from staff saying that all the allegations have been disproven (they haven't).

"They just seem to be tapping into the sentiment that if you pin it all on an evil Tory government people will buy it."

There might be something in that.

But some of the links to this thread date back to 2006/7, so I think that angle would be rapidly debunked.

That article in Guardian is pure class. Great find seaoflove.

A refugee my arse!

I think it's more the collapse they're blaming on the Tories.

www.standard.co.uk/news/i-turned-to-camila-batmanghelidjh-after-oscar-triumph-says-helen-mirren-6735123.html#

Don't know if this has been posted before..knew HRH Prince Charles would be mentioned somewhere.

"I think it's more the collapse they're blaming on the Tories."

What! Those nasty people who had the temerity to give them £3m (against Civil Service advice) so they could restructure and continue?

Camilla so needs a name drop butler

The Guardian "my week" article reads like one of those pisstake ones where they pretend to be the person.

That guardian piece is priceless. She'd have to be bloody Superwoman to do all those things in one day! So she stabilised a young person in meltdown; went home and back to bed; gave an interview; attended some ceremony or other, accompanied by a young kid well on the way to optimum mental health,and then another interview. Among all the big names she knows and drops, I'm surprised Dr Who doesn't get a mention, because when it comes to the capacity to bend and shift time, they have an awful lot in common.

"They just seem to be tapping into the sentiment that if you pin it all on an evil Tory government people will buy it."

Someone studying a social history of the 80s ?

(Don't help him)

oh i've just realised the guardian piece is called My Week. So she did all that in a week not a day. Still don't believe it though.

Thats the second piece in which shes mentioned and child doing something with ham at a cocktail party

She's a charlatan and a fraud.