Captain Tom Moore’s daughter and her husband faced criticism last year for their money-making endeavors, which were investigated by the Charity Commission and found to be questionable.
And accounts filed with Companies House now show that the financial fortunes of the company they set up have collapsed, too.
Hannah Ingram-Moore and David, who managed a business called Club Nook, were tasked with handling the financial and intellectual assets of the late army officer.
It has net current assets of just £149. The previous year this figure stood at £336,300.
As of April 2024, the company’s financial situation had taken a turn for the worse, with debts amounting to £67,000. Their net liabilities had increased to £19,246 compared to the previous year when they were in the black at £106,104 as of April 2023.
Captain Tom stole the hearts of the national when he walked 100 laps of his garden in Bedfordshire to raise money for the NHS while marking his 100th birthday in 2020.
Almost £39 million was raised for NHS Covid charities and he was knighted by the Queen in July 2020.
Later that year his memoir, Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day was published. He wrote in the prologue that it was ‘a chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name.’
Club Nook, run by Hannah Ingram-Moore (pictured) and her husband David was intended to manage the late army officer’s commercial interests and intellectual property
Captain Tom Moore photographed in the garden of his home near Milton Keynes with daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore
Hannah Ingram-Moore, daughter of Captain Sir Tom Moore (pictured) and her husband Colin Ingram-Moore
However following his death in 2021 it emerged that his daughter and her husband pocketed the publishing advance from the book.
A critical report published by the Charity Commission in November last year found that the Ingram-Moores benefited ‘significantly’ through their association with the high-profile Captain Tom Foundation and were guilty of ‘serious and repeated’ instances of misconduct, mismanagement and failures of integrity – among them the book deal.
The public had been ‘misled’, said the damning report, when buying items they thought would benefit the Captain Tom Foundation, which was set up in May 2020 to carry on raising money for charity after the success of his sponsored walk.
Questions were first raised in February 2022 when it was reported that £240,000 of the charity’s £400,000 expenditure went on fundraising and admin costs and £50,000 of ‘reimbursed expenditure’ was paid to companies controlled by the Ingram-Moores.
A view of the home of Hannah Ingram-Moore in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire
Captain Tom Moore raised over £12 million for the NHS during Covid-19 by walking the lengths of his back garden
The Charity Commission was told that the £1.47 million book advance was paid to Club Nook, the private company set up by the couple in April 2020. Only £18,000 – £1 a copy from sales of the first book – went to the charity.
In 2022, she and her husband refused a request by the Charity Commission to ‘honour the commitment’ made by Captain Tom in his foreword. They were twice asked to ‘rectify matters by making a donation to the charity’ but declined both times.
The Commission produced a 30 page report said that Mrs Ingram Moore had been ‘disingenuous’ in her denials of personal benefit. She was paid £85,000 a year as CEO of the charity before stepping down.
The Ingram-Moores released a statement accusing the charity watchdog of a ‘predetermined agenda’ and of ‘unfairly tarnishing’ their name.
In August 2021 the Ingram-Moores used the charity’s name to apply for planning permission for an indoor swimming pool building in the grounds of the family’s Grade II-listed home.
Initially approved by Central Bedfordshire council, largely because of its supposed charitable purposes, the family went on to build a larger structure, containing a pool, spa, kitchen and toilets.
They removed references to Captain Tom in a retrospective application for the changed structure, later telling the Charity Commission inquiry that its original inclusion was ‘an error’ and that they were both distracted because they were ‘busy undertaking global media work’.
They were later ordered to remove the complex, which was demolished in February 2023.
