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CAPTAIN Sir Tom Moore’s name has been removed from the scandal-hit charity established in tribute to the Covid hero.
New filings at Companies House indicate The Captain Tom Foundation will now be known by the obscure title “The 1189808 Foundation”.
The Captain Tom Foundation has changed its name[/caption]
Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin[/caption]
Captain Tom rose to fame in 2020 for walking 100 laps of his garden[/caption]
It is believed the odd title reflects its official registered charity number.
The latest accounts, disclosed last summer, showed the entity had assets exceeding £262,600.
It comes after the organisation’s website was removed following a damning investigation by the Charity Commission.
Former Army officer Capt Tom became a national treasure after raising more than £30million for the NHS by doing laps of his garden during the pandemic.
He passed away in 2021 aged 100 but his family has been criticised over management of funds raised in his name.
Daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore, 53, and her husband Colin, 66, had both been made trustees in 2021.
But were disqualified from being charity trustees after the humiliating probe found the pair had received “significant personal benefit” from the “mismanaged” foundation.
The Charity Commission report also highlighted “repeated failures” with both Hannah and Colin’s leadership and “repeated instances of misconduct and/ or mismanagement”.
This comes as Hannah’s own business Club Nook, that she co-runs with her husband, had collapsed, according to accounts filed with Companies House.
The business had been created to manage The Captain Tom Foundation’s commercial interests and intellectual property.
But the latest documents have shown it only has current assets of £149, a stark contrast to last year’s £336,300.
Liabilities have also dropped from £106,104 to £19,246 net within a year.
The couple previously pocketed £1.5million from a book deal, giving none to Capt Tom’s charity.
In November last year, the foundation asked for the cash back “immediately and without the need for further action”.
It is understood much of the funds were put into an illegal luxury spa in their garden using the Captain Tom Foundation charity name.
The block was demolished earlier this year after the family lost an appeal against Central Bedfordshire Council’s order for it to be torn down.
The report also reveals that Ingram-Moore blocked from paying herself a £150,000 salary as charity CEO, took £85,000 a year and reimbursed her own firm with £80,000 in costs from the foundation.
The couple hoodwinked the public by promising royalties to the charity from its merchandise website.
Charity Commission report's key findings
The 30-page report published on Thursday came after a two-year inquiry
It found the Ingram-Moores carried out repeated instances of misconduct.
These include:
- “disingenuous” statements from Mrs Ingram-Moore about not being offered a six-figure sum to become the charity’s CEO
- a misleading implication that donations from book sales would be made to the foundation
- no evidence to support Mrs Ingram-Moore’s claims she attended an awards ceremony in a personal capacity, for which she was paid £18,000
- The couple used the foundation’s name in an initial planning application for an illegal spa pool block at their home
Instead buyers were redirected to external sites where no commission to good causes was collected.
And they gave the charity £8,900 from a Capt Tom gin from profits thought to be well over £100,000.
Publishers Penguin agreed to pay a £1.4million advance to the Ingram-Moores’ private company for Capt Tom’s memoir on the understanding a contribution would be made to his charity.
He raised nearly £39million for NHS charities by walking 100 lockdown laps of his garden.
In the prologue to Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day, Capt Tom, who died in 2021 aged 100, wrote: “I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation established in my name.”
Just £17,000 in royalties went to charity.
The report concluded: “The public would understandably feel misled given no donation has been made to the charity.”
Last year, Mrs Ingram-Moore wept as she told Piers Morgan she and her hubby pocketed £800,000 from book sales.
But the true scale of their plunder is far greater.
The Ingram-Moores, who used Capt Tom’s name to try to sell their £2.25million home in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, have been banned as charity trustees.
Penguin said: “We are extremely disappointed.”
Liz Brownsell, of law firm Birketts, said: “There is nothing suggesting fraud.
“It is more a moral than a legal issue.”
How Captain Sir Tom Moore rose to fame & his daughter's controversies
- March 2020 – D-Day veteran Captain Tom Moore walks 100 laps around his Bedfordshire garden before his 100th birthday, raising £30million for the NHS during the first lockdown.
- April 2020 – Captain Tom reaches No. 1 in the charts with his cover of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’. He receives 100,000 cards for his 100th birthday, which is marked with a Battle of Britain flypast. A train is named after him.
- July 2020 – Captain Tom is knighted by the Queen in a special private ceremony at Windsor Castle.
- September 2020 – Hannah Ingram-Moore launches the Captain Tom Foundation to combat loneliness.
- December 2020 – Drones swarm into the shape of Captain Tom’s face at the New Year’s Eve firework display in London.
- February 2021 – Captain Sir Tom Moore dies after catching covid-19.
- February 2022 – The Charity Commission launches a probe into the Captain Tom foundation after it paid £50,000 to companies run by Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin.
- July 2023 – The foundation stops accepting donations. Planning chiefs order Hannah to tear down an unauthorised spa at her Bedfordshire home. The building had been approved to be used “in connection with the Captain Tom Foundation and its charitable objectives”. But a larger building with a spa pool was built instead and was denied retrospective planning permission. Hannah appeals.
- September 2023 – accounts reveal Hannah received more than £70,000 to head the foundation.
- October 2023 – Hannah loses her appeal and is ordered to demolish the spa and restore the garden to its original condition.
- January 2024 – Demolition work begins.
- November 2024 – Probe finds family “repeatedly benefitted” from “mismanaged” foundation.
- January 2025 – Her business Club Nook collapses with just £149 in assets compared to £336,300 a year prior. The foundation’s website also disappears.
The spa complex was torn down in February[/caption]
Mrs Ingram-Moore looked dejected as belongings were removed from the spa[/caption]
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