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Kids Company

The latest news and opinion on the UK charity Kids Company

January 2024

  • Mourners under colourful drapes with Camila Batmanghelidjh’s image on a screen

    Camila Batmanghelidjh’s mourners lay her to rest with a rite of colour and joy

    Hundreds pay respects to Kids Company founder at defiant north London funeral and glowing wake in Waterloo church
  • Through the force of her personality, Batmanghelidjh charmed Labour and Conservative prime ministers, and a succession of public figures.

    Camila Batmanghelidjh obituary

    Charismatic founder of Kids Company who stepped down after the charity’s collapse in 2015
  • Camila Batmanghelidjh

    Kids Company charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh dies aged 61

    Family announces death of campaigner known for her charisma, colourful attire and outspoken pursuit of social justice for children

December 2022

  • Camila Batmanghelidjh

    Kids Company founder cleared to challenge critical watchdog report in court

    Camila Batmanghelidjh told she has arguable case to appeal against verdict that collapsed charity was mismanaged

February 2022

  • Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder of Kids Company.

    The Guardian view on Kids Company: unfair treatment

    Editorial: Mistakes by charities must be dealt with and learned from. But their regulator has missed a chance to set the record straight
  • Iranian-born British charity executive Camila Batmanghelidjh (C), founder of the children's charity Kids Company, leaves surrounded by supporters after speaking at a protest over the closure of Kids Company outside Downing Street in London on August 7, 2015. The charity closed after a row over funding and allegations of financial mismanagement, which Kids Company denies. AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLISJUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images

    Charity Commission report into Kids Company – questions and answers

    Watchdog criticises collapsed charity for its failures a year after exoneration for mismanagement
  • Camila Batmanghelidjh in her home office where she offers advice to people in need (parents, children) who speak to her through the window. 
Photo by Linda Nylind. 21/4/2021.

    Kids Company criticised for failures by watchdog year after exoneration

    Charity Commission finds ‘mismanagement in administration’ and ‘high-risk business model’

May 2021

  • Camila Batmanghelidjh

    Attempt to ban Kids Company trustees cost taxpayers £8m

    Legal bill follows failed case brought by official receiver against Camila Batmanghelidjh and seven others

February 2021

  • Camila Batmanghelidjh

    Mismanagement claims against Kids Company founder thrown out

    Camila Batmanghelidjh exonerated of allegations she was responsible for charity collapse

May 2019

  • A coin being dropped into a charity collection box

    The Guardian view on fewer people giving to charity: generosity is good

    Editorial: Falling donations are a cause for concern at a time when need is rising. And recent scandals are only part of the story

October 2018

  • Pound coin being dropped into a charity collection tin.

    Charities need to stop slide in public trust warns regulator

    Groups risking censure, says Charity Commission, citing aggressive fundraising and betrayal of charitable focus

August 2017

  • Kids Company

    Charity leadership
    Two years on from Kids Company, it's time to decide if charities are worth saving

    Asheem Singh
  • Kids Company

    Charity leadership
    What you need to know to be a charity trustee

July 2017

  • Camila Batmanghelidjh and Alan Yentob

    Kids Company: ex-board members face company directorship ban

    Camila Batmanghelidjh and ex-directors including Alan Yentob told to expect disqualification proceedings
  • ‘Imperious’: Sandra Marvin as Camila Batmanghelidjh and the company in Committee... at the Donmar.

    Committee: (A New Musical) review – Kids Company crisis lacks drama

    Sandra Marvin is imperious as Camila Batmanghelidjh but this verbatim reconstruction needs more vim
  • Like the Red Army choir … Sandra Marvin (Camila Batmanghelidjh), centre, in Committee ... (A New Musical) at the Donmar Warehouse, London.

    Batmanghelidjh and Yentob face the music in Kids Company musical Committee – review

    Singing MPs grill charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh and chair Alan Yentob in a show that’s as melodramatic as Tosca – though not as tuneful

June 2017

  • Alice McCarthy and Anna Martine in Rotterdam

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    The 10 best things to do this week: Love Supreme, Rotterdam and Okja

    The jazz festival returns, Jon Brittain’s Olivier-winning play transfers to the Arts theatre and a porcine eco-fable lands on Netflix
  • Lucy Siegle

    Bureaucracy that only adds to the trauma of terror

    Lucy Siegle
    Graham Foulkes lost his son on 7/7 and is now helping those left desolate by this year’s terror attacks. Why must we make it so difficult for him?
  • Stef Pruski

    Kids Company staff speak out: ‘People lost their homes, they can’t get a job’

    The charity’s story is to be revisited on stage and in a book by Camila Batmanghelidjh, but for its dedicated ex-employees, times are still tough

April 2017

  • Alan Yentob and Camila Batmanghelidjh

    Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh 'facing directorship ban'

    Insolvency Service reportedly wants to disqualify ex-board members including Alan Yentob over roles in collapsed charity
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