Captain Tom’s daughter’s company loses nearly £150k in assets

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A company run by Captain Tom’s daughter and her husband has misplaced nearly £150,000 in the final yr, because the couple face scrutiny over their dealing with of the battle hero’s fundraising legacy.

Hannah Ingram-Moore registered Club Nook Ltd in April 2020 together with her husband Colin additionally named as a director, simply two weeks earlier than the Captain Tom Foundation was integrated.

The household have been propelled into the general public eye after her 99-year-old father walked 100 laps round his backyard through the early levels of the Covid-19 pandemic, elevating a staggering £38m for the NHS.

After his demise in February 2021, his household have come below criticism after investigations discovered that Ms Ingram-Moore was on an £85,000 wage because the CEO, and that Club Nook Ltd had pocketed £800,000 in income from her father’s three books.

Accounts filed by the agency earlier this week present that their internet assets have fallen from £482,268 in 2021/2022, to £366,300 in 2022/2023, a drop of £145,968.

The newest steadiness sheet additionally reveals collectors of £33,190 to be paid inside the yr, whereas payments in the earlier yr had amounted to £184,513.

During an interview with TalkTV’s Piers Morgan, a tearful Ms Ingram-Moore admitted that the household had stored income from books authored by the Second World War veteran, and claimed it was his alternative.

“These were my father’s books, and it was honestly such a joy for him to write them, but they were his books,” she mentioned. “He had an agent and they worked on that deal, and his wishes were that that money would sit in Club Nook.”

When pushed if Captain Tom had needed the household to maintain the cash, she replied “Yes… specifically.”

She additionally insisted that the income from his books Captain Tom’s Life Lessons, One Hundred Steps and Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day had by no means been promised to charity.

This is regardless of the prologue of his autobiography stating: “Astonishingly at my age, with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name.”

The Charity Commission are actually investigating the muse, after beforehand rejecting an utility from the charity in 2021 to make use of Mrs Ingram-Moore on a £100,000 annual wage.

She has additionally been criticised for accepting £18,000 from Virgin Media to evaluate a charity award and hand out a plaque, with the muse solely receiving £2,000 of this sum.

In 2021, the couple have been granted planning permission from Central Bedfordshire Council to construct a Captain Tom Foundation Building in the grounds of their £1.2million residence in Marston Moretaine.

While the L-shaped constructing was given the go-ahead, a subsequent utility containing a spa pool was rejected, but was constructed regardless in the grounds of their property.

An enforcement discover was served requiring the spa to be demolished however the couple appealed by arguing that it had been supposed for rehab periods and the area people.

This was rejected by the Planning Inspectorate, with the household failing to submit an extra attraction forward of the six-week deadline.

Mrs Ingram-Moore later spoke over her “regret” over the spa and pool complicated, and added: “I think it’s all very easy to look back and think I should have made different -decisions, but I hadn’t planned on being the CEO.”