Top architects’ PR cleared of Kids Company wrongdoing
Source: Dafydd Jones
A public relations director who has worked with Zaha Hadid Architects, Foster + Partners and OMA has been cleared of wrongdoing as a trustee of the collapsed charity Kids Company
Erica Bolton, a founding director of international PR agency Bolton & Quinn, had faced being banned from holding roles as a company director under legal action brought by the Insolvency Service in 2017, on the instruction of former business secretary Greg Clarke.
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The Insolvency Service alleged Bolton and her six fellow trustees were ‘unfit’ to be managing a company since they caused or allowed Kids Company – which entered insolvency in August 2015 – to ‘operate an unsustainable business model’.
Camila Batmanghelidjh was speaking after the High Court rejected disqualification proceedings brought by the Official Receiver against her and a group of the charity's former trustees
The founder and trustees of former children’s charity Kids Company have been exonerated by a High Court judge after an failed attempt to bar them from being company directors in the future. The charity, which supported vulnerable children and young people in London and Bristol, collapsed in 2015 amid claims of financial impropriety and allegations of historic sexual abuse. A police investigation into abuse and exploitation allegations – first.