The Charity Commission has recovered just over 10% of the funds it spent investigating an operator of a fundraising website, newly published documents show.
Dove Trust ran the now-defunct online fundraising website Charitygiving and had an interim manager for several years while it was investigated.
The Commission opened a statutory inquiry into the charity in 2014 and shortly afterward appointed the interim manager to address serious governance concerns at the charity.
Due to there being no funds available at the charity to pay for an interim manager, the Commission covered the costs itself to ensure as much money as possible could be recovered.
A partner at Crowe UK was the interim manager appointed by the Commission, and was paid by the regulator during his years in charge.
Dove Trust was removed from the register of charities on 30 March last year, following the Commission’s inquiry.
Its investigation into the charity fundraiser cost the regulator more than £650,000 over six years, and the Commission then applied to the High Court to receive the money left in Dove Trust’s accounts.
A section order required funds to be paid to the Official Custodian for Charities, whose recently filed accounts show that £83,665 was paid to the Commission as reimbursement of costs.
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