The Charity Commission has appointed an interim manager in place of trustees at a charity where the board are suspected of using the organisation for "significant private gain".
Jonathan Brinsden, a partner at Bircham Dyson Bell, has been made the interim manager at the Manor Building Preservation Trust because the regulator deemed it “a necessary step to protect the charity’s property and funds”.
The Commission opened a statutory inquiry into the charity in June to investigate concerns.
At the time it said that analysis of the charity’s accounting information had shown that trustees “may be abusing the charity for significant private gain and that the charity is not operating for the public benefit”.
The Manor Building Preservation Trust was set up in 1999 and became a registered charity in 2004. Its objectives are the preservation of historical architecture
Its income has been below the level required to file accounts with the Commission for the past two years.
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