Bryan Gunn, trustee of the Dove Trust, has filed a third appeal with the Charity Tribunal as it considers whether to strike out the existing cases.

The Charity Commission has asked the Charity Tribunal to strike out the appeals filed by the trustee of the Dove Trust. On 3 November Bryan Gunn filed a separate appeal relating to its decision to remove him as a trustee.

The Charity Commission has until 1 December to respond.

Two appeals were lodged at the beginning of this year against the Commission’s decision to appoint an interim manager and to freeze the charity’s accounts. The Charity Tribunal has scheduled both appeals to be heard together between 8 and 12 December 2014 in Norwich.

On 27 October the Tribunal ruled against an application from Keith Colman, founder and former trustee of the charity, to be joined as a party to the appeals. He had previously be removed as an appellant and has been acting as a representative for Bryan Gunn.

The Tribunal ruling warned that it was inappropriate for him to be acting as a representative when he is likely to be called as a witness and that he might be barred from acting as a representative.

In May Colman’s name was removed from the appeals and replaced with the charity’s two current trustees: Gunn and Donna Naghshineh. Naghshineh has since withdrawn from the appeals.  

The Dove Trust is the parent charity of Charity Giving, which was shut down in 2013 by the regulator over concerns that money donated by the public was not finding its way to good causes.

Pesh Framjee, partner at Crowe Clarke Whitehall, was appointed as the interim manager by the Commission. In the summer the High Court ruled that available funds should be distributed in proportion to the amount they are owed. Most charities are likely to receive 33p for every pound they are owed.