Three charity trustees have been banned after they were found to have spent thousands of the charity’s funds on haircuts, designer bags, foreign holidays, and concerts
The Charity Commission has banned three trustees of the Hope House School charity from acting as charity trustees for eight years after an inquiry into the management found several examples of financial misconduct.
The inquiry into Hope House School, which runs a small independent school near Newark, Nottinghamshire for children with conditions including Opltz syndrome, autistic spectrum disorders, and dyspraxia, was launched in 2017 after complaints were made that the charity’s founder was receiving personal benefit from the charity.
The founder is not named in the report and instead referred to as trustee A and was found to have been ‘breaching the charity’s internal financial controls’. The inquiry identified payments that were given to trustee A’s husband for the repayment of a £121,000 loan that was said to have been made by him between 2003-09.
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