Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder of collapsed charity Kids Company, has hinted that the charity could return once the media storm has calmed down.

In an interview with the Telegraph, published yesterday, she said: “The way the media are still behaving it is a little bit more difficult, elements of the media. Hopefully, that can calm down which would then allow us to restructure.”

Last week Kids Company closed its doors because it could not pay its debts as they fell due. Its founder, Camila Batmanghelidjh, has since blamed “rumour-mongering civil servants, ill-spirited ministers and the media” for the charity's demise, saying that "unfounded" allegations of sexual abuse caused philanthropists to withdraw offers of funding.  

Trustees warned about trouble ten years ago

A former trustee, Nigel Rowe, has said that he stood down from Kids Company’s board after five months in 2006 over concerns about how the charity was run.

In a letter to the Telegraph, he said: “I fully understood the need for an edgy brand so that children would self-refer, but I could not accept anything less than professional management behind the scenes. It was evident then that the need which Kids Company addressed existed in inner-city areas further afield than London, but sadly the organisation was in no state to contemplate expansion.”

A spokesman for the charity told the Telegraph that: “If he had concerns, why did he resign? He could have stayed on to help address them. Why didn’t he report them to the Charity Commission at the time if it was as bad as that?”

Paul Marshall, a philanthropist and chair of Ark Schools, has revealed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he decided against giving the charity a significant donation seven years ago because he was concerned about the “chaotic” nature of the charity.

He said: “They didn’t give me confidence that they were managing as a charity. I went to visit them. I thought it was fairly chaotic. There was a lack of organisation. It didn’t appear to be managed.”