UK-wide charity Broken Rainbow was spending more than half of government grant it received for three months’ work in 24 hours, said National Audit Office
A domestic violence charity that received £1.4m of public money collapsed after “chaotic” management, according to a public spending watchdog. Broken Rainbow, which was the only UK-wide charity supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender domestic abuse victims, had been surviving “hand to mouth” for years, the National Audit Office said.
Auditors drew comparisons with the discredited charity Kids Company, which collapsed amid controversy over how it had been run. They found that over 15 months, a third of payments from the charity’s bank account went to its chief executive, Jo Harvey Barringer, including money for her wife, who also worked at the organisation.
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