One of Britain’s most high-profile children’s campaigners, Camila Batmanghelidjh, has launched a blistering attack on politicians fifa 15 coins account and austerity, as she announced she is to step down after nearly 20 years at the head of the Kids Company charity.
The charity she founded, which specialises in therapeutic support for severely abused and traumatised children, is likely to halve in size, making ￡14m of cuts and sacking hundreds of staff in an attempt to survive a serious financial crisis.
On Thursday night, she said: “Some ugly games are being played. The facts are that the vulnerable children of this country remain largely unprotected. There’s no point in shooting the messenger if the message is uncomfortable. I am being silenced.”
Kids Company predicted that the proposed restructuring, which it said was triggered after the government signalled that it was to end ￡5m annual funding, will leave thousands of vulnerable youngsters without support.
The charity has been negotiating for weeks with the Cabinet Office over a one-off grant of around ￡3m to enable it to restructure. If there is no grant the charity could call in the receivers within weeks.
The charity has expanded rapidly in recent years to cope with what it says are huge rises in demand, particularly from troubled children who have been turned away from mainstream health, education and care services.
Kids Company’s HQ is currently in temporary accommodation on an upper floor of an investment bank in the City of London. According to Batmanghelidjh, the charity “nearly went bust” recently but was given a temporary lifeline when well-known artists including Antony Gormley, Tracy Emin and Anish Kapoor donated works to raise money for it.
Batmanghelidjh warned that without a regular source of state funding, www.utfifas.co/fifa-15-ps-account-coins Kids Company would be reliant on fundraising. “We are doing the most serious work [funded] by cupcake sales and cocktail parties,” she told the Guardian, “and I don’t think that is right or sustainable.”
