The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into a Leicester-based poverty relief charity after it failed to act on a legal order issued by the regulator.
GiftingHumanity was set up in 2016 to provide relief and assistance to homeless people and victims of natural or other kinds of disaster.
The commission said today it opened its inquiry into GiftingHumanity on 13 September.
GiftingHumanity had already been part of the commission’s “double defaulters” class inquiry, which includes charities that have failed to provide financial returns for two out the past five years.
The charity is also, according to the commission, operating with an insufficient number of trustees, making it in breach of its governing document.
The inquiry will “examine the extent to which the trustees are complying with their legal duties in respect of the administration, governance and management of the charity”, in particular the compliance with its legal obligations around the content, preparation and filing of financial accounts and the extent to which the trustees have complied with previously issued regulatory guidance.
It will also seek to ascertain whether the charity has a sufficient number of trustees who are willing and capable of managing it and have managed it in accordance with its governing document, and the extent to which any failings or weaknesses identified in the administration of the charity during the inquiry are a result of misconduct and/or mismanagement by the trustees.
Third Sector has contacted GiftingHumanity for comment.