A former youth service boss has been charged with abusing her position to defraud more than £130,000.
Donna Wells, 39, of Bridgeway East, Windmill Hill, Runcorn, is due to appear at North Cheshire Magistrates’ Court in Warrington tomorrow, December 7.
The former Young Addaction Halton service manager is charged with fraud by abuse of position to gain around £133,000 between January 4, 2018 and January 25, 2020 in Runcorn.
She is also charged with committing fraud by false representation in Liverpool from February 3-16, 2020, over allegedly failing to disclose disciplinary proceedings and providing false references; and acquiring criminal property, namely £54,750.
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Cheshire Police reported in June last year that officers had received allegations of fraud connected to a charity based at Grangeway Community Centre in Runcorn.
The investigation was "in its early stages".
Young Addaction, the national parent organisation of Young Addaction Halton, has since changed its name to We Are With You and no longer provides youth services in Halton, its contract in the borough having expired last summer.
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