Harry and Meghan take full control of Archewell

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I hope they know what they’re doing. Running a business isn’t that easy and if anything goes wrong it’s the directors who are prosecuted, not the employees.

“That money was just resting in my account”

I am a low-paid worker who works for a company doing the paperwork. I am not legally responsible but do the actual work. You think it is the CEO who does annual returns and sorts out annual accounts with the accountant!
I have been a volunteer and did the same for a very small charity, legally it is more straightforward than for a private company.
I am talking about the paperwork side, it is not hard.
Managing a medium company takes skill, I do not do that, and I assume it is the same for a charity. But is this charity doing much? Because of not there is not much to manage.

@BoJoSecretGF Basic financial procedures ensure that this does not happen. Again not difficult.

This is what I was responding to. It is not hard.

Do you seriously think that they realise that filing the right reports etc is something that is essential to running a company? Do you think that they imagine that running Archewell will involve them doing such things? Neither of them have any real world business experience. Both of them appear to think that mundane things are beneath them (which is why they didn’t want to do the boring bits of Royal work). Filing paperwork is not necessarily hard. Understanding that it actually needs doing when you have no experience of working in commerce or the charity field, is.

A CEO in this area would be building relationships, looking for funding, partnerships, networking, approving projects, budgets, strategic plans

Archewell audio produced a podcast episode for Christmas 2020 and then since Rebeccca Sananes took over in July 2021 I think has only produced 10 episodes of Archetypes. It sounds like she was severely underemployed.

I would expect they're getting out of podcasts, Spotify didn't renew the Obama's and I think with the recession coming won't want to spend on any podcast that isn't a huge success or doesn't deliver when its supposed to. The Obama's got a contract at Audible after Spotify didn't renew, I wonder if the lack of output from Archewell audio for so long has gotten them a bad reputation in the industry.

Does anyone remember when all the staff in the UK kept leaving how they tried to spin it like they were quitting because they didn't have an American work ethic and there was a culture clash?

Maybe there was a culture clash?
If the charity is not doing much it makes sense to cut back on staff. A total waste of money to pay people to do not much.

They seem to have high staff turnover

What do you mean by “culture clash”? If you mean a UK/US clash then no, because Archewell is and always has been based in the US with US staff.

It's so sad this demonisibg and venom against a couple/family. Let them get on with their lives.

The faux naïveté on here is so amusing! They are losing more staff because they are a pair of odious bullies who couldn't tell the truth if it slapped them round the face! They constant stream of staff ( from all areas and jobs) that have left since their engagement says everything we need to know! " They are trying to save money" 0r "they were underemployed" oh please, it's embarrassing!

They haven’t completed their projects - they are just about to launch two of the biggest - and most sensitive and in their words “explosive”.

For senior management to bail on the eve of the busiest and most critical time of a product lifecycle is unheard of and potentially catastrophic.

Hilarious - did you see what you just did there???!!!!

Can’t be that easy to run a charity - for them at least - as they were reported and then officially investigated by The Charities Commission in the U.K. around concern for irregularities.

That amazes me when they have well-paid staff.
Running a charity well is not easy I am sure, I do not know. Doing the paperwork and meeting financial legalities is easy. You need to know the law. But trust me people who work in this area are not well paid. If it was so difficult we would be well paid. It relies on managers doing what we advise of course, which does not always happen. But most companies do what their low paid staff advise in this area. I assume most charities would as well, but not all as Kids Comnpany shows.

@antelopevalley

CEO’s don’t fill in the forms, they hire people to do those tasks.

CEO’s are the ones building the brand, making the contacts, approaching wealthy philanthropists / potential patrons, organising revenue streams, networking at events. They are approving budgets and five year plans, and choosing which charities to support so need a focussed strategic person

I know that!
I was responding to the comments about hoping they know the paperwork to complete. Not about other CEO work. As I said if they are not doing much, then the CEO does not need to do all that work.

You have just contradicted yourself multiple times in this one post and against your other posts.

I’m the Chairman of a local not for profit organisation, it’s the gaps like this when key staff leave that are difficult, the remaining staff need to know there is someone there to support them and the strategic, funding, and capital projects have to continue and the organisation is always moving forward.

Key relationships have to be rebuilt and this all takes time and our organisation is more than 20 years old so well established.

I’m in a voluntary unpaid position but the board have to step into managerial roles when gaps occur

@WidowTwanki Nope. My response was to someone who talked about the paperwork that legally needs to be submitted at various points. Since then lots of people including you have twisted that to say I have said about other things when I have not.

They are the ones not getting on with their lives and revisiting the past for money!

Wasn't she there in post simply to cover maternity leave? MM has now decided to return to work was my understanding.