Article 25, a UK charity that helps provide shelters in disadvantaged communities worldwide, had its future thrown into question in June, when £200,000 of its funds (equivalent to approximately $312,060) were found to be missing. This past Tuesday, Article 25’s book keeper and office manager, Scott William Golding, was arrested in conjunction with the lost funds, and is being charged with “fraud and false accounting”.

In response, the nearly ten-year-old charity is rallying to “tighten up” its financial management. The arrest coincided with the charity’s annual fundraising effort, which met its goal, and Article 25 does not plan to stop its projects while investigation is ongoing. Article 25, named after the right to habitable shelters as decreed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has collaborated with local governments, NGOs and charity programs for a variety of scaled projects all around the world, often in response to disaster scenarios. It was founded in 2006 by former RIBA president, Maxwell Hutchinson.

h/t to bdonline.co.uk