{"id":816291,"date":"2026-10-28T07:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T07:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816291\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T07:50:16","slug":"adapt-north-east-disability-charity-investigated-by-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816291\/","title":{"rendered":"Adapt North East disability charity investigated by watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A disability charity&#8217;s work is at risk of being brought to a halt because of an internal dispute, a regulator has warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Charity Commission has launched an investigation into &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; about the management of Adapt (North East) following allegations of &#8220;significant&#8221; payments being made without full approval of trustees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adapt&#8217;s chief executive Hannah Harniess, who joined a year ago, said she raised concerns about financial arrangements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Based in Hexham, Adapt provides community transport, wheelchair hire and other help for people with sensory, physical and learning disabilities in Northumberland, Tyneside, Sunderland and Durham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Commission bosses said they began assessing financial and governance concerns in July this year and later opened a regulatory compliance case to examine possible misconduct or mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The inquiry will examine the extent to which Adapt&#8217;s trustees, past and present, have complied and are able to comply with their legal duties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This included whether there had been any &#8220;unauthorised personal benefit and potential conflicts of interest&#8221; and whether the charity has appropriate financial controls in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A disability charity&#8217;s work is at risk of being brought to a halt because of an internal dispute,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}