Charity under investigation following arrests
A Chesterfield charity is under investigation by The Charity Commission after it was made aware that the chief executive and another employee had been arrested on suspicion of financial mismanagement.
The charity regulator announced that it had opened a statutory inquiry into the Kids ‘n’ Cancer, after the arrest of Mike Hyman, founder, trustee and chief executive of the organisation and his wife on suspicion of theft.
The fresh inquiry is not the first time the Commission has locked horns with the charity. It has come into contact with charity after it offered proton beam therapy to Aysha King, a child with cancer whose parents were arrested after abducting him and fleeing to Spain. The charity raised over £50,000 for Aysha King’s family in 2015, but then refused to give to cash to his family after the NHS agreed to fund King’s proton beam treatment, and only refunded £360 of £50,000.
The Commission said it had now established “clear and on-going regulatory issues relating to the administration and financial controls of the charity” following the arrest of Hyman and his wife.
Kids ‘n’ Cancer says it provides “assistance and financial support to children seeking cancer treatment, and to assist with the overseas costs of proton beam therapy” – not available in the UK.
