Captain Tom’s daughter’s and husband’s firm registers a £330,000 fall in finances 

A steadfast tally by the girl and son-in-law of Captain Sir Tom Moore has registered a autumn successful nett assets of much than £330,000.

Club Nook Ltd’s newly published accounts travel a highly captious official study about Hannah Ingram-Moore and hubby Colin’s handling of affairs astatine a foundation in the World War Two veteran’s name.  

The steadfast had conscionable £149 successful nett assets — everything a institution owns minus its debts — successful the twelvemonth ending April 2024, down from £336,300 successful the erstwhile 12 months, the unaudited fiscal statements show. 

More than £67,000 was owed to creditors successful the astir caller period, compared with £6,518 before, according to the equilibrium sheet.  

The mates acceptable up Club Nook aft Captain Tom roseate to fame with his record-breaking fundraising, which began arsenic helium completed 100 circuits of their plot for his 100th day astatine the tallness of the Covid lockdown. 

In November, the steadfast was named successful a two-year Charity Commission probe into the Captain Tom Foundation, which was established to proceed his bequest of goodwill.  

The mates made ‘repeated failures’ astatine the helm of the charity, according to the inquiry. The study recovered a misleading accusation that donations from publication income would beryllium made to the foundation. 

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

The mates responded by branding the enquiry ‘unjust and excessive’ and insisted they ‘never took a penny’ from nationalist donations.  

The instauration was acceptable up to dispersed the generosity shown by the centenarian among a wide scope of bully causes. He raised £38.9 cardinal for NHS Charities Together, a abstracted charity, with the 100 laps successful 2020.  

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

The nationalist figurehead died successful February 2021, after which his household continued the high-profile fundraising run successful his memory.

The Ingram-Moores have insisted that determination has ne'er been immoderate impropriety successful the mode they person continued his goodwill.  

Responding to the commission’s report, they said: ‘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.’ 

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