Charity Commission Opens Case Into Eugenie Charity as £191,537 Salary Spend Tops Programmes
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Updated · BBC.com · May 13
Charity Commission Opens Case Into Eugenie Charity as £191,537 Salary Spend Tops Programmes
5 articles · Updated · BBC.com · May 13
Britain’s Charity Commission has opened a regulatory compliance case into Princess Eugenie’s Anti-Slavery Collective, escalating an earlier assessment of concerns over the charity’s spending.
Accounts for the year to April 5, 2025 showed donations fell to £48,000, while the charity spent £191,537 on salaries—about double what it spent on charitable programmes.
Earlier accounts had already drawn scrutiny after the charity raised £1.5 million but carried forward £1.3 million, distributing relatively little of the money.
The watchdog said the move is not a statutory inquiry and no findings have been made yet, but it will engage further with the charity’s trustees and gave no timetable.
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