Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder of the failed Kids Company charity, is to help run a Christmas party for more than 1,500 underprivileged children and their families, it has been reported.
She has been invited by the Rev Steve Chalke, founder of the Oasis charitable trust, which is planning an event with bouncy castles, magicians and dance competitions on Christmas Eve. A smaller party for people who have been in care and would otherwise be alone will be held on Christmas Day.
Chalke told the Sunday Times: “I am in charge but I have invited Camila and some of her former staff to help run it and advise us. We think she is fantastic.”
Last week Alan Yentob, chair of trustees at Kids Company for more than a decade, resigned as the BBC’s creative director, saying media coverage of the scandal had become a distraction.
Yentob, who will retain his presenting role at the corporation, is expected to be criticised by MPs on the public administration and constitutional affairs committee when it reports on the Kids Company collapse in a few weeks’ time. He has denied there was any mismanagement or failure of governance.
• This article was amended on 11 December 2015. An earlier version said Alan Yentob had been the chair of trustees at Kids Company for 20 years.
