Nursery in charity scandal

The owner of a nursery business deprived a charity of tens of thousands of pounds by obtaining two leases that allowed her to pay only a fraction of an open market rent, an investigation by the Charity Commission has found. The Commission found that Sandra Allan, who claimed she was unaware of her responsibilities as a trustee of the charity, had been subject to a conflict of interest when she secured the leases on the 40-place nursery adjoining Greatham Village Hall in Hampshire in 1993 and 1998, allowing her to pay between £1,280 and £2,160 a year. In a report...