The Charity Commission has published one of the most damaging and condemnatory investigations on charity administration when it removed from the register of charities Positive Lives, the AIDS charity launched by the owner of UK's most widely circulated free weekly magazines Boyz and Pink Paper. Positive Lives, charity number 1057995, was registered on 12 September 1996 and removed on 15 July 2003. Click here to read the document.

The Charity Commission investigation followed an expose published by Chris Morris, proprietor of the independent community-based Outcast magazine, which led to Outcast's website being removed, following legal threats to the ISP from solicitors Mishcon de Reya, and the subsequent closure of the magazine as a result of this pressure. To read the article 'Hello Boyz! Who runs the Pink Paper?' click here.

The Pink Paper ceased publishing on 1 October 2004 click here to read why.

BHAN (Black HIV AIDS Network) - The Metropolitan Police completed an investigation into the Black HIV/AIDS Network (BHAN) after it was discovered that over £500,000 had disappeared from the organisation's funds. The massive fraud was uncovered when newly-appointed director, Esmee Sargeant, examined the group's accounts. BHAN's former treasurer, Bijon Sinha, disappeared shortly after Sargeant began her enquiries and fled the country. Sinha got away with it because the white funders would not investigate a Black Agency.

Terrence Higgns Trust and Frontliners - Frontliners, the people with AIDS Charity housed within the Terrence Higgins Trust dominated fundraising and the AIDS agenda for a number of years until they were forced to close in 1992 having imploded from within. Frontliners officials released the results of an internal investigation confirming maladministration, mismanagement and financial fraud which resulted in the company Frontliners (UK) Limited being dissolved and the agency being closed down.

Terrence Higgins Trust was nearly brought down in 1991 when a series of scandals were published in the National Press detaling allegations of maladministration, mismanagement and financial fraud, following revelations made by a whistle-blower who had headed an internal investigation on these issues and was then forced to resign.

The HEAL Trust - UK's first and only Holistic HIV/AIDS Treatment Centre, The HEAL Trust, secured £500,000 from Elton John AIDS Foundation and other agencies and moved into deluxe premises in Vauxhall. However, they never opened their doors and closed following massive internal scandals and disruptions alleging maladministration, mismanagement and financial fraud. A dossier was submitted by HEAL's employees and volunteers to the Charity Commission but as HEAL had closed at this time no investigation was made.

PHEATS - findings and outcome by the Commissioners can be read here.