David,
I have no idea. I was told by Kevin (I called him this particular day) that Darren had gone to Kevin's when he lived at Derby that he'd had a 'successful' meeting with Darren and had reach agreement for Kevin to take over but because Darren was still there he asked me to call him back which I did and Kevin told me he didn't like Darren and that he was corrupt and devious. I thought Darren had left the charity and Kevin had assumed position of JOA's leader. I didn't know who the other trustees were, I didn't realise he'd filled any paperwork out about it and I don't know if JOA actually took any cases on.
Nothing was mentioned about the history of JOA and even in 2011, Kevin was on about moving to London and it's be better for him because it'd be easier for him to get funding because he could do face to face meetings but in the meantime he asked me if I could think of anyone to ask, so I sent him a list of people who he might contact, I don't know if he did but no funding was forthcoming (none that I was aware of).
The next time JOA was mentioned was when I became aware that people in prisons were receiving mail from JOA asking if they wanted us to represent them. I don't know who sent the letters and I asked one of my prisoner to send a copy but he hadn't kept it because he'd decided to stick with JENGbA which I didn't question because it was his choice, however later he told me about the reputation JOA had at which time I suggested the problems tied to it were insurmountable and it'd be better being closed down.
It was closed, at which time I started to question Kevins integrity and try to get answers about him to at which point people started to tell me what he was like.