As a result of the enquiry, Newham Community Leisure Trust is being wound up and one trustee has been disqualified.

The Charity Commission found ‘serious misconduct and/or mismanagement in the administration of the charity over a sustained period of time’.

One trustee has been disqualified from acting as a trustee for 12 years after being found particularly responsible for the charity’s poor governance and management.

The inquiry found that conflicts of interest between the charity and a local football club, of which this trustee was chief executive and which used the ground owned by the charity, were not appropriately identified or managed.