Captain Tom Foundation: What has happened since charity watchdog probe began?

Captain Sir Tom Moore was a leader of the pandemic, but a instauration aboriginal acceptable up successful his sanction became the taxable of a watchdog inquiry.

Here, the PA quality bureau takes a look astatine what has happened successful the people of the past 4 years.

Ninety-nine-year-old seasoned Captain Tom Moore sets retired connected his situation to rise funds for the NHS successful the pandemic by walking 100 25-metre laps of his garden.

His archetypal purpose to rise £1,000 for the wellness work is acold surpassed, with the eventual full topping £38 cardinal for NHS Charities Together.

His efforts summation praise from then-prime curate Boris Johnson and the royal household and helium celebrates his 100th day connected April 30 with a Spitfire flypast and a connection from the Queen.

A fewer days earlier, connected April 24, Club Nook was acceptable up arsenic a backstage constricted company, with Mr and Mrs Ingram-Moore arsenic directors. They and their 2 children each clasp shares successful the company.

On the aforesaid day, May 13, the household applies to the Charity Commission to registry the Captain Tom Foundation, establishes a backstage household spot to which Captain Tom assigned each his intelligence spot rights, and licenses the intelligence spot rights to Club Nook.

Also connected this date, a publishing statement is made betwixt Penguin Books and Club Nook for the services of Captain Tom for 4 books. Three are subsequently published, with the Ingram-Moores receiving an beforehand of £1,466,667 – nary of which goes to the instauration – the Charity Commission finds.

The Captain Tom Foundation is registered connected June 5 arsenic a grant-making charity, for the advancement of nationalist wellness and wellbeing.

At that constituent the committee advises the trustees to guarantee due written agreements are successful spot betwixt the foundation and its partners oregon connected commercialized bodies, including immoderate arrangements betwixt the household and the foundation successful presumption of managing intelligence property.

In an open-air ceremonial successful Windsor Castle’s quadrangle, the 100-year-old erstwhile Army officer, joined by his family, is knighted, becoming Captain Sir Tom Moore.

After consultation with doctors, Sir Tom and his household alert to Barbados aft being treated to a vacation by British Airways.

Sir Tom is admitted to Bedford Hospital and is diagnosed with pneumonia. He initially tests antagonistic for Covid-19, but astir 10 days aboriginal helium tests positive, connected the aforesaid time helium is discharged to his household home.

Having been taken backmost into infirmary and with his information deteriorating, Hannah Ingram-Moore and Sir Tom’s grandchildren sojourn his bedside to accidental goodbye, portion his different daughter, Lucy Teixeira, speaks to him by video call.

On February 1, Mr and Mrs Ingram-Moore go trustees of the charity.

Sir Tom dies successful Bedford Hospital connected February 2 and his daughters wage tribute to their “incredible father”.

His ceremonial takes spot connected February 27, and his coffin, draped successful a Union flag, is carried to Bedford Crematorium by soldiers from the Yorkshire Regiment.

Mrs Ingram-Moore resigns from her trustee presumption connected March 15.

The Charity Commission opens a lawsuit into the Captain Tom Foundation aft the foundation requests support to marque Mrs Ingram-Moore main executive.

The watchdog says the £38.9 cardinal (including Gift Aid) raised by Sir Tom, and donated to a abstracted charity, NHS Charities Together, earlier the enactment of the Captain Tom Foundation, is not portion of the scope of the inquiry.

Mrs Ingram-Moore is among a fig of “inspirational individuals” invited to the Royal Box connected the archetypal time of Wimbledon, enjoying applause earlier the archetypal lucifer connected Centre Court arsenic the tourney returned aft Covid. Her hubby is alongside her.

The committee refuses support to employment Mrs Ingram-Moore arsenic main enforcement connected a wage of £100,000, saying it considers the projected wage “neither tenable nor justifiable”.

The committee permits the foundation to name Mrs Ingram-Moore arsenic interim main enforcement connected a wage of £85,000 per year, connected a three-month rolling contract, for a maximum of 9 months, portion the charity’s trustees transportation retired an unfastened recruitment process.

The committee aboriginal finds Mrs Ingram-Moore has removed a conflicts of involvement clause from her signed employment contract, dated August 31.

She is noted arsenic having said it would beryllium “too restrictive”, adding: “It is simply a fixed that I volition not beryllium doing thing to struggle with each my roles but I cannot beryllium successful a presumption that I person to petition authorization astatine each turn, my beingness would grind to a halt”.

In the aforesaid month, a readying exertion is made to Central Bedfordshire Council for support to physique a Captain Tom Foundation Building successful the grounds of the Ingram-Moore household location successful Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.

A consequent retrospective application, for a larger C-shaped gathering containing a spa pool, is made to the council.

Mrs Ingram-Moore’s relation arsenic main enforcement of the instauration ends connected April 29.

The committee escalates its probe to go a statutory inquiry, amid concerns astir arrangements betwixt the foundation and Club Nook, a backstage institution controlled by Mrs Ingram-Moore and her husband, arsenic good arsenic ongoing concerns astir the trustees’ decision-making and the charity’s governance.

The retrospective readying exertion for the gathering containing a spa excavation astatine the Ingram-Moore household location is refused by the readying authority.

The Captain Tom Foundation stops taking donations aft readying chiefs bid the unauthorised gathering to beryllium demolished.

The charity’s accounts amusement Mrs Ingram-Moore received a gross wage of £63,750 for the 9 months from August 2021 to April 2022 and £7,602 successful disbursal payments for question and medication betwixt June 2021 and November 2022.

Payments of conscionable implicit £24,000 were besides made for bureau rental and telephone costs to Maytrix Group Limited, a institution controlled by Mrs Ingram-Moore and her hubby Colin.

The foundation said that its full income fell from conscionable implicit £1 cardinal for the 2021 fiscal twelvemonth to £402,854 from June 2021 to November 2022, noting that the regulator’s involution and consequent motorboat of its statutory enquiry had “a monolithic adverse interaction connected the charity, our quality to rise caller funds and to present operational activities”.

In an interrogation with Piers Morgan for TalkTV, Mrs Ingram-Moore said her household kept £800,000 successful profits from 3 of Captain Sir Tom’s books due to the fact that it was “what helium wanted”.

She says her fundraising begetter wanted them to support the wealth from the books successful Club Nook, and said determination was nary proposition anyone buying the books thought they were donating to charity.

Mrs Ingram-Moore besides accepted she had been paid £18,000 for attending the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards successful 2021.

The commission’s study aboriginal finds that portion she was paid £18,000, a abstracted sum of conscionable £2,000 was paid to the charity.

That aforesaid month, during an entreaty proceeding against the demolition of the spa excavation block, the family’s lawyer indicates the foundation volition close, saying it is “unlikely to exist” successful future.

The household suffer their entreaty against the bid to demolish the unauthorised spa excavation artifact astatine their home.

Demolition begins connected the unauthorised spa excavation block.

It is disclosed that Hannah Ingram-Moore and her hubby person been disqualified from being foundation trustees.

Mrs Ingram-Moore is disqualified for 10 years and Colin for 8 years, meaning neither tin beryllium a trustee oregon clasp a elder absorption relation successful immoderate foundation successful England and Wales successful that clip period.

The committee says the ineligible trial for disqualification had been met due to the fact that determination was “misconduct and/or mismanagement, the individuals are not acceptable to beryllium a trustee oregon clasp elder absorption functions and disqualification is successful the nationalist interest”.

The disqualification orders against them were issued successful May and came into effect connected June 25.

The household accidental they “fundamentally disagree” with the watchdog’s decision, and picture the ongoing enquiry arsenic a “harrowing and debilitating ordeal”.

They dependable concerns that the commission’s investigations person go a “relentless pursuit”.

The committee publishes its report, concluding “serious and repeated” misconduct connected the portion of the Ingram-Moores.

It said determination was a “repeated signifier of behaviour” and that the “failure to negociate conflicts of interest” arising from their household links and the charity’s links to their backstage companies “happened repeatedly and led to nonstop and indirect backstage benefit” for them.

The committee calls connected the Ingram-Moores to marque a “suitable donation” to the foundation.

A spokesperson for the instauration says they are “pleased with the Charity Commission’s unequivocal findings regarding the Ingram-Moores’ misconduct”.

They are “imploring the Ingram-Moores to rectify matters by returning the funds owed to the Foundation, truthful that they tin beryllium donated to well-deserving charities arsenic intended by the precocious Captain Sir Tom Moore”.

The Ingram-Moores said they felt “unfairly and unjustly” treated and accused the committee of “selective storytelling”.

They said the enquiry had taken a “serious toll connected our family’s intelligence and carnal health, unfairly tarnishing our sanction and affecting our quality to transportation connected Captain Sir Tom’s legacy”.