A humanitarian aid charity set up by the model Naomi Campbell is to be dissolved.
Fashion for Relief, which was founded in 2005, has been the subject of a Charity Commission inquiry since November 2021 for filing late accounts for four years and a “lack of evidence to show that conflicts of interest were being managed”.
In March 2022, the regulator appointed two interim managers to the charity to the exclusion of the trustees.
The regulator said Phil Watts and Edwina Turner of the law firm Anthony Collins Solicitors took charge of the management and operation of the charity, including its activities, finances and events.
The pair have completed their work and they have been discharged, the regulator said today.
A notice from the commission on 15 December said it intends to dissolve the charity after three months from the date of the entry “unless cause is shown to the contrary”.
A Charity Commission spokesperson said: “We can confirm that the commission-appointed interim managers of Fashion for Relief have applied for its removal from the register of charities on the basis that it no longer operates.
“Our statutory inquiry into the charity is ongoing and, as such, we cannot comment further at this time.”