page_title: Camila Batmanghelidjh
section_title: Awards and honours
hierarchical_section_title: Camila Batmanghelidjh / Awards and honours
caption_attribution_description: English: Camila Batmanghelidjh receiving her honorary doctorate from the Open University. Ceremony held at the Barbican Centre.
context_page_description: Camila Batmanghelidjh, CBE is an Iranian-born author and former charity executive in the United Kingdom. She is best known as the founder of Kids Company, a charity which worked with marginalised children and young people in the UK.
  Between 1996 and 2015, Batmanghelidjh became a high-profile "media darling", fêted by celebrities and politicians for her work with Kids Company. In 2007, The Guardian described her as "one of the most powerful advocates for vulnerable children in the country". She was dubbed the "Angel of Peckham".
  In 2015, amid allegations of mismanagement and the squandering of funds, Batmanghelidjh was forced to step down as the charity's chief executive, and Kids Company was closed, by then insolvent, despite receiving millions of pounds in government funding.
context_section_description: In 2009 Batmanghelidjh was named Businesswoman of the Year in the Dods and Scottish Widows Women in Public Life Awards. A New Statesman readers' poll awarded her the title Person of the Year in 2006. She has also received Ernst and Young's Social Entrepreneur of the Year award (2005), Third Sector magazine's Most Admired Chief Executive (2007) and the Centre for Social Justice's lifetime achievement award in 2009. Batmanghelidjh has been awarded honorary degrees and doctorates by several universities including York St John University, the Open University, Brunel University, London South Bank University, University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. In September 2006 she was conferred with an Honorary Fellowship of Goldsmiths, University of London.
  In February 2013, she was named one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. She was appointed an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to children and young people. In September 2014 she became an Honorary Fellow of UCL.
caption: Batmanghelidjh receiving an honorary degree from the Open University in 2008
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