Captain Tom Moore’s family speak out and say damning report is  ‘unfair and unjust’  

Captain Sir Tom Moore’s household person branded a study astir their ties with a foundation acceptable up successful his sanction arsenic ‘unjust and excessive’ and insisted they ‘never took a penny’ from nationalist donations.

The Ingram-Moores besides claimed they person been treated ‘unfairly and unjustly’ by the two-year Charity Commission investigation which released a highly captious acceptable of findings yesterday.

In a statement, they spoke of the ‘serious toll’ the enquiry has had connected the family’s wellness and accused the watchdog of ‘unfairly tarnishing’ their name. They added that the watchdog had a ‘predetermined agenda’.

The 30-page probe papers recovered the household gained ‘significant idiosyncratic benefit’ from the Captain Tom Foundation.

The record-breaking fundraiser’s daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, and her husband, Colin, made ‘repeated failures’ astatine the helm of the foundation, according to the inquiry. 

The household responded: ‘True accountability demands transparency, not selective storytelling.

‘We stay dedicated to upholding Captain Sir Tom’s legacy and privation the nationalist to know, that determination has ne'er been immoderate misappropriation of funds oregon unauthorised payments from the charity’s slope account, by immoderate subordinate of our family.’

The Ingram-Moores besides said that they ‘never took a penny’ from nationalist donations erstwhile Sir Tom raised millions for NHS charities by walking laps of his plot during the coronavirus lockdown.

They said it is ‘deeply painful’ to deliberation radical mightiness judge otherwise.

The Captain Tom Foundation was acceptable up to dispersed the generosity shown by the precocious Second World War seasoned among a wide scope of bully causes. Captain Tom raised £38.9 cardinal for NHS Charities Together, a abstracted charity, by walking 100 laps of his plot for his 100th day astatine the tallness of the Covid lockdown successful 2020.  

The millions donated to NHS Charities Together earlier the instauration was formed were not portion of the commission’s inquiry.

The study recovered a misleading accusation that donations from publication income would beryllium made to the Captain Tom Foundation.

An beforehand of astir £1.5 cardinal was paid to Club Nook, a institution of which the Ingram-Moores are directors, for a three-book woody and nary of that has gone to the foundation, the regulator said.

The Ingram-Moore household accused the Charity Commission of a ‘breach of privacy’ arsenic an extract of a backstage publication woody with Penguin Random House was ‘publicly disclosed’.

They went on: ‘Such an enactment raises superior concerns astir privateness protections.

‘If a confidential contract, implicit with privateness clauses, tin beryllium truthful casually released, what does this mean for the privateness of others, nationalist figures oregon otherwise?

‘The steadfast paid Captain Sir Tom a fee, it was his and helium decided what to bash with it.’

The household added that ‘significant fees’ from the publication woody were paid to the literate agent, ineligible and PR professionals, with portions of the wealth utilized to enactment the Captain Tom Foundation.

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