BBC Breakfast guest reveals exactly how much Tom Moore's family profited and misled public

A subordinate of The Charity Commission appeared connected BBC Breakfast to sermon Captain Sir Tom Moore's daughter's fiscal beneficiation from a foundation successful his name

The household of leader fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore person been slammed by a watchdog for pocketing immense sums of wealth successful his name.

Sir Tom’s girl and her hubby gained “significant” fiscal payment from links to a foundation acceptable up during the pandemic, a study has said. The Charity Commission said a probe of The Captain Tom Foundation had uncovered “repeatedly failures of governance and integrity”.

The World War II hero raised astir £39 cardinal during the Covid-19 situation by walking 100 lengths of his plot up of his 100th birthday. His fundraising efforts captured the nation’s hearts and led to a record-breaking flood of donations from well-wishers.

He was fixed a BBC Sports Personality of the Year grant and performed successful a chart-topping euphony single. Sir Tom was knighted by the Queen successful July 2020 and died, aged 100, successful February 2021 aft contracting Covid-19.

The Captain Tom Foundation was acceptable up by his girl Hannah Ingram-Moore, 53, and her husband, Colin, 66, successful his honour. However, it became the taxable of respective allegations, starring to investigations by the Charity Commission and Fundraising Regulator.

The Charity Commission archetypal opened a compliance lawsuit successful March 2021 and began reviewing the organisation's setup. It opened a statutory enquiry - usually reserved for lone the astir superior cases - successful June 2022.

However, present the watchdog’s study has been published - and is damning successful its disapproval of Hannah Ingram-Moore and her hubby Colin.

The study concluded determination had been repeated instances of misconduct by the pair, who person already been banned from being foundation trustees. The study said the couple’s “misconduct and/or mismanagement” was a “repeated signifier of behaviour”.

Speaking connected BBC Breakfast connected Thursday morning, David Holdsworth from the Charity Commission spoke to astir the study and insisted that the nationalist 'will beryllium rightly feeling misled' by Captain Tom's family.

"I deliberation the nationalist volition beryllium rightly feeling misled. I deliberation everyone got down Captain Tom and I deliberation we each retrieve during the pandemic the grin helium brought to each our faces. It reminded america of what work to others tin really achieve" David shared.

Discussing the misconduct, David continued: "What we person recovered is simply a signifier of behaviour and determination was a accordant blurring of the lines betwixt the backstage benefits of the household and the involvement of the foundation - and they simply weren't managed."

David went connected to uncover the nonstop magnitude Captain Tom's household profited arsenic helium shared: "There was a £1.4m publication deal. Our presumption was due to the fact that of the selling astir it - due to the fact that of Captain Tom's ain words successful the prologue, we thought it would payment the foundation. The nationalist would rightly of expected immoderate of that wealth to spell to the charity. However, it didn't.

"There was besides an £18,000 outgo to Mrs Ingram-Moore for attendance astatine an grant ceremony. The foundation lone got a £2,000 donation. The trustees were unaware of that woody and agreement. If they had of been, they could person possibly negotiated a amended deal," the BBC Breakfast impermanent concluded.

It comes aft it was revealed that income of Captain Tom’s autobiography ‘Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day’ did not payment The Captain Tom Foundation. In the book’s foreword, helium wrote of being fixed “the accidental to rise adjacent much wealth for the charitable instauration present established successful my name.”

Instead, an beforehand of £1.4m for the three-book woody was paid to Club Nook - a institution of which the Ingram-Moores are directors. Literary cause Bev James, who represented Captain Tom, said the mates were “very clear” they did not privation the wealth to spell to charity. The Commission said that “to date, the foundation has not received immoderate wealth from the archetypal publishing agreement”.

The Commission has present called connected the mates to marque a "suitable donation" to "honour the committedness that Captain Tom stated successful the foreword" to the book.

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