{"id":2068982,"date":"2025-10-04T17:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2068982"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:17:25","slug":"sentebale-drops-polo-charity-matches-after-prince-harry-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sentebale-drops-polo-charity-matches-after-prince-harry-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentebale drops polo charity matches after Prince Harry row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">The charity set up by Prince Harry in honour of his mother has dropped its fundraising polo matches after the Duke of Sussex quit over a racism and bullying dispute earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">A report into Sentebale\u2019s accounts, published on Friday, revealed the sport would no longer feature in its fundraising efforts, despite the Sentebale ISPS Handa Polo Cup making up 18 per cent of income last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/topic\/prince-harry\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\">Harry<\/a> resigned as a patron of the charity in March, along with his co-founder, Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, and several other trustees, blaming the \u201calmost dictatorial\u201d style of its chairwoman, Sophie Chandauka.<\/p>\n<div id=\"3\">\n<div id=\"89eb37b0-b691-439b-a141-352199034cd6\">\n<div class=\"tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 responsive__PrimaryImg-sc-4v1r4q-3 hpWIYt\">\n<div class=\"tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr\">\n<div style=\"background-color:#efefef\" class=\"tc-view__TcView-nuazoi-0 fPjBcr\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:66.0230457801308%;position:relative;overflow:hidden\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/imageserver\/image\/%2Fe3c27f1f-1593-48d1-aebc-a2afb8dadbdf.jpg?crop=6422%2C4240%2C0%2C286&amp;format=webp&amp;quality=9\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Chandauka had previously complained to the Charity Commission, accusing board members of bullying, misogyny and racism, and the relationship was said to be \u201cbeyond repair\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"paywall-EAB47CFD\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">After a subsequent drop in donations <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/article\/prince-harrys-charity-sentebale-lays-off-london-staff-amid-funding-crisis-6vcf7rvz3\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\">prompted redundancies in Africa and at its former London headquarters<\/a>, Sentebale is now in the midst of a rebrand before its 20th anniversary next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">The HIV\/Aids charity, which supports children and young people in Africa, plans to cut \u00a31 million annually and has said it wants to increase investment by widening its donor base instead of relying on individual high-profile donors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Iain Rawlinson, a member of Sentebale\u2019s board of trustees, told The Telegraph: \u201cThese polo games, which attract great generosity from high-net-worth individuals or funds who want to support the charity \u2014 those events definitely have their place. We\u2019re not being critical about that as a concept.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">\u2022 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/article\/prince-harry-britain-visit-8q8qftds2\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\"><b>Prince Harry \u2018wants to come home much more and bring family with him\u2019<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">\u201cThe reason for [dropping it] is it puts quite a lot of pressure on individuals, and it can mask structural weakness in the financial model of the charity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Rawlinson said that large donations from Harry \u2014 such as a \u00a31.2 million payment from the proceeds of his memoir, <i>Spare <\/i>\u2014 had masked \u201cthe fault lines in the financial model which had really been producing losses since 2017\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">He added: \u201cThose problems can be summarised by saying there was a very narrow but very loyal donor base for the charity. But it also masked the very high level of cost \u2026 where those costs could only be borne by the virtue of the generosity of Prince Harry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">The closure of Sentebale\u2019s London office, which was costing \u00a3650,000 a year, was listed in the report as part of its cost-cutting plan. The charity also said it had introduced a code of conduct \u201cfor defining trustees\u2019 acceptable behaviour\u201d in the wake of the scandal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Tensions at the charity boiled over after the board challenged Chandauka over a \u00a3400,000 bill for consultants, which they said had brought little return. She was then asked to step down, but instead she complained to the Charity Commission, alleging bullying, misogyny and racism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">In a Sky News interview, Chandauka accused Harry of trying to \u201ceject\u201d her through \u201cbullying\u201d and \u201charassment\u201d, which he denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">The regulator \u201ccriticised all parties\u201d involved in the dispute \u201cfor allowing it to play out publicly\u201d and said it had \u201cseverely impacted the charity\u2019s reputation and risked undermining public trust in charities more generally\u201d.<\/p>\n<p id=\"last-paragraph\" class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Chandauka said on Friday: \u201cAs we reach our 20th anniversary next year, Sentebale is poised to soar, empowering even more children and young people across southern Africa to claim their futures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thetimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charity set up by Prince Harry in honour of his mother has dropped its fundraising polo matches after the Duke of Sussex quit over a racism and bullying dispute earlier this year. 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