Volunteers and former board members of the Committee of 25 are concerned about the charity’s leadership due to a lack of audited financial statements.The charity recently submitted three years of unaudited statements to the Registry General, but one volunteer said more must be done to protect the charity’s future.She said: “We really do not want that charity to close because it does a good job. It’s just the people at the top.”A spokesperson for the charity said: “The Charities Act requires the submission of a true copy of accounts and this has been submitted to the Registrar General.“In addition, audited financial statements are soon to be completed for 2009, 2010 and 2011 and will be submitted in due course.”The Committee of 25 for Handicapped Children, one of the Island’s oldest charities, assists handicapped children and their families upon medical referral.The former volunteer at the charity, who asked not to be named, said that she had written several letters of complaint about how the Board of Directors was operating the charity.“I wanted them to be investigated for the lack of financials being put in,” she said.“There were monies we were making at Bargain Box that I don’t think they were putting in right. In 2011 we made $202,000 just from the Bargain Box, and I have yet to see that put down anywhere as far as income.”She said that it is vital for the charity to have funds to carry out its work. Without the proper financial safeguards, she is concerned the children the charity was created to help will suffer.“I have heard two cases recently. One was a lady in Pembroke where they were told they didn’t have the funds to help them,” she said. “There’s supposed to be plenty of money there to help these children.“I just look at the money the $202,000 Bargain Box raised, and they don’t have the funds? Something is not right with this picture. Something is seriously not right.”The volunteer also challenged decisions by the Board of Directors to cut the membership of the Committee from more than 100 to less than 30. She also said that one member of the Board of Directors, Junior Dill, was suspended after questioning “unconstitutional behaviour” by the board.Mr Dill declined to comment for this story, but according to a document shown to The Royal Gazette he was suspended for, among other reasons, walking out of a meeting and having the foyer painted without approval.The former volunteer however said that Mr Dill left the meeting only to get more information about his own membership, and had the foyer painted for free.Asked about Mr Dill’s suspension, the spokesperson for the charity said they were “not inclined to discuss an individual with the media”.According to a spokeswoman for the Registrar General, unaudited statements for the years ending April 30, 2009, 2010 and 2011 were all submitted on February 15 this year. They have yet to be reviewed by the Charity Commissioners.Former OBA candidate Andrew Simons said he learned about the issues in the charity while campaigning in the area and quickly became concerned.“There were a few red flags,” he said. “The Committee of 25 chair hadn’t submitted financials to the Charities Commission for several years, and when people started asking questions about those financials there were moves by a segment of the board to frustrate the normal process.“The charity’s constitution states that they must submit or produce audited financials. Those financials haven’t been produced since 2008.“In many ways, that’s the heart of the issue. You have mismanagement, the failure to submit the most basic requirements to the charity’s commission to remain a registered charity.”