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New Thu 6 Aug 15 09:34

Kids Company - legacylad

Looks like it's curtains for Camilla Batman

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New Thu 6 Aug 15 09:43

Kids Company - Manatee

Now there's an example of a post where an accompanying picture would have improved the joke immeasurably!

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New Thu 6 Aug 15 11:41

Kids Company - Duncan

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New Thu 6 Aug 15 12:31

Kids Company - sooty123

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camila_Batmanghelidjh

For anyone else that's never heard of her.

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New Thu 6 Aug 15 14:34

Kids Company - Ambo

>>Looks like it's curtains for Camilla Batman

That's her, all over.

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 09:10

Kids Company - Dutchie

I have seen her a few times on the Television looks a sincere lady to me.

She had a intervieuw the other night on BBC2 where the intervieuwer didn't let her finish the questions she was asked.

What has gone on here and why did she shut Kids Company down.More to this than meets the eye did she upset a few officals?

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 09:15

Kids Company - CGNorwich

I rather suspect that whilst her intentions were good her ability to manage a large organisation spending millions of pounds of public money were not. Unfortunately her ego rather got in the way for putting in some competent management as she was not prepared to concede control to anyone else.

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 10:41

Kids Company - Roger.

O'er weening ambition which overstrips itself........................

She comes from a wealthy family and attended, according to reports, a prestigious UK school.

Anyone who dresses as this lady does must have deep insecurities (related to her size?) which are shouting "Look at me, I'm special "

(Rather similar to those sporting voluminous piercings and tattoos)

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 11:01

Kids Company - CGNorwich

Yes beware of flashy dressers with large egos who attended expensive schools Roger. Not to be trusted.

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 11:06

Kids Company - Robin O'Reliant

Not surprising it went bust, for the reasons GC said above -

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11788923/Kids-Company-boss-Camila-Batmanghelidjh-turned-HQ-into-private-Aladdins-den.html

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 11:27

Kids Company - Cliff Pope

>> Yes beware of flashy dressers with large egos who attended expensive schools Roger. Not to
>> be trusted.

I just distrust people who dress like fortune tellers. Very clever, but there's a trick somewhere.

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 12:48

Kids Company - sherlock47

From Wikipedia

In 1974 her family emigrated to the United Kingdom, and she attended Sherborne Girls, a fee-paying boarding school in Dorset.[2] She attended the University of Warwick, graduating with a first-class degree in Theatre and Dramatic Arts, before training as a psychotherapist at Regent's University London.[3]

- sounds like an ideal background for somebody who founds a an ego led personality cult.

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 17:22

Kids Company - Haywain

"Yes beware of flashy dressers with large egos "

Wise words indeed from the bucolic one; I never took to Savile J either.

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 20:41

Kids Company - CGNorwich

He never attended an expensive school though.

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 21:03

Kids Company - Haywain

"He never attended an expensive school though."

I've no idea where he went to school, but the giveaway was the flashy shell-suit and the eeeeeeego! Oh, and the, ahem, 'charisma'!

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 21:16

Kids Company - CGNorwich

This was the chap I had in mind

tinyurl.com/qf55x4q

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 21:26

Kids Company - sooty123

Reading that link, CGN I don't think it's a faux pas. Some people can carry the yellow/red coduroy trousers off, he's one of them.

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 21:41

Kids Company - Haywain

I wish I could get away with yellow trousers, but I fear that my wife would disown me. My mate sometimes wears red corduroys for jazz club, though he's past caring. I always imagine AC wears bright corduroys - am I right?

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 21:56

Kids Company - Armel Coussine

>> I always imagine AC wears bright corduroys - am I right?

No you aren't. Very far from it in fact. My strides are soberly coloured and a tiny bit tatty.

Really Haywain! Tsk.

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 22:33

Kids Company - Haywain

"My strides are soberly coloured "

To be honest, I'm a bit disappointed - a jazz-gent like you. Sober corduroy or moleskin?

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 22:14

Kids Company - sooty123

I always imagine AC wears bright corduroys - am I right?
>>

I think you have to be a bit of a country gent to pull off those sorts of clothes.

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 23:16

Kids Company - Zero

I went to Burleigh horse hound and game fair once. . I had the defacto black lab at my side, but felt distinctly underdressed as I was not wearing my burnt orange tweed plus fours and jacket.

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New Fri 7 Aug 15 23:25

Kids Company - sooty123

I went this year to the show at Burleigh. Really enjoyed it, never worn any of the plus four type of stuff though. Not my thing, never felt out of place though.

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New Sat 8 Aug 15 09:28

Kids Company - legacylad

When plus fours are mentioned I always think of Auric Goldfinger playing golf with James Bond. See PFs around Settle during the shooting season. Plenty of the older 'gentlemen' farmers wear them. Not sure how well they go with the new Rangies which they invariably drive.

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New Sat 8 Aug 15 16:08

Kids Company - Harleyman

>> He never attended an expensive school though.
>>

Probably attended quite a few, but not for the right reasons.

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New Wed 12 Aug 15 00:21

Kids Company - Bromptonaut

>> I rather suspect that whilst her intentions were good her ability to manage a large
>> organisation spending millions of pounds of public money were not. Unfortunately her ego rather got
>> in the way for putting in some competent management as she was not prepared to
>> concede control to anyone else.

Stripped of stuff about ego etc kids company is an example of a worrying trend for the charitable sector. You can be a campaigner or a provider of services for government.

Doing both of those things simultaneously is difficult.

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New Wed 12 Aug 15 08:29

Kids Company - CGNorwich

Not sure why this should be seen as a problem. If a charity accepts state money it is only right that the government has a degree of influence as to how it is spent. If the charity doesn't like that and wants to campaign against the government they should not take their their money. A belief that that it can be otherwise is naiive.

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New Wed 12 Aug 15 13:17

Kids Company - Cliff Pope

> You can be a campaigner or a provider of services for
>> government.

Or an independent provider of help for those who slip through the official net, funded by charitable donations?

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