Fresh blow for Captain Sir Tom Moore's family as firm faces financial collapse

Accounts revealed the worth of Hannah Ingram-Moore's firm, Club Nook, had plummeted to conscionable £149 implicit the past twelvemonth - down from much than £330,000 successful the erstwhile 12 months

Captain Sir Tom Moore's household contiguous faced a caller stroke aft accounts showed his daughter's institution had suffered fiscal collapse.

Hannah Ingram-Moore's firm, Club Nook, has seen the worth of its assets plummet to conscionable £149 implicit the past twelvemonth - down from £336,300 successful the erstwhile 12 months. The company, tally by Mrs Ingram-Moore, 53, and hubby Colin, 66, was intended to negociate lockdown leader Capt Tom's commercialized interests and intelligence property.

But accounts to April 2024 amusement the institution owes creditors £67,000. Its liabilities are recorded arsenic lasting astatine £19,246 net, wherever successful the twelvemonth to April 2023 they stood astatine £106,104 successful the black. It is the latest humiliation for the household - forced to slash £250,000 from the terms of their state mansion - aft they faced disapproval by watchdogs for their handling of Capt Tom's foundation funds.

In 2023, Hannah admitted that £800,000 worthy of profits from Capt Tom's 3 books had been paid into Club Nook. In a TV interview, she claimed her begetter wanted his household to support the profits from Captain Tom's Life Lessons, One Hundred Steps and Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day and insisted readers were ne'er told the wealth would spell to charity.

But this was called into question by the prologue of the 3rd book, an autobiography, which suggests the seasoned thought his books were conscionable different mode for him to fundraise. The extract read: "Astonishingly astatine my age, with the connection to constitute this memoir I person besides been fixed the accidental to rise adjacent much wealth for the charitable instauration present established successful my name."

The latest accounts travel conscionable days aft the Mirror revealed the household had been forced to slash £250,000 disconnected the terms of their state mansion and hitch immoderate notation of his sanction from an online listing. Capt Tom's household had tried to displacement the sprawling seven-bed mansion for a whopping £2.25m utilizing his sanction past year.

They strategically placed a photograph of Capt Tom being knighted by the precocious Queen successful 2020 successful an online listing. And a bust recreating the infinitesimal helium finished his multi-million lb fundraising locomotion during the pandemic was besides seen successful a drawback of the main hallway.

But they pulled the spot disconnected the unfastened marketplace amid a backlash astatine their handling of the foundation acceptable up successful his name. Now the spot successful Marston Moretaine, Beds, is backmost up for grabs for offers successful excess of £2million - with nary motion of Capt Tom successful immoderate of the images.

An online listing makes nary notation of the veteran's foundation heroics and does not sanction his girl oregon her husband. It simply states: "The vendors person owned the spot for 18 years and person undertaken a broad programme of betterment and renovation."

In November the mates were criticised by a watchdog for pocketing much than £1million successful his name. They gained important fiscal payment from links to a foundation - the Captain Tom Foundation - that they acceptable up successful 2020, a study said.

The Charity Commission said its probe into the instauration uncovered "repeated failures of governance and integrity". Second World War seasoned Capt Tom raised astir £39m for foundation during the pandemic by walking 100 lengths of his plot up of his 100th day successful April 2020.

He was knighted months aboriginal and died aged 100 successful 2021. The Charity Commission's statutory enquiry recovered the Ingram-Moores' "misconduct and/ oregon mismanagement [was a] repeated signifier of behaviour". It added income of Capt Tom's autobiography Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day did not payment the Captain Tom Foundation.

In the prologue helium wrote of being fixed "the accidental to rise adjacent much wealth for the charitable instauration established successful my name". But an beforehand of £1.4m for the three-book woody was paid to Club Nook, which the Ingram-Moores are directors of.

The committee said the foundation "hasn't received immoderate wealth from the archetypal publishing agreement". It added the nationalist "would consciousness misled" to larn the foundation did not payment from sales. In 2023 Mrs Ingram-Moore admitted keeping the profits from the books for themselves and said determination was nary statement with her dada the publication wealth would spell to charity.

The committee said determination is grounds Mrs Ingram-Moore acceptable retired expectations for a £150,000 wage earlier becoming the charity's chief. The watchdog criticised the brace for utilizing the foundation's sanction successful a readying exertion for a spa excavation artifact astatine their Bedfordshire home. The mates said it was an mistake they blamed connected being busy.

The study said that erstwhile giving support for the building, planners gave important value to the pledge that it was to beryllium utilized for charitable purposes. The assembly aboriginal ordered the household to demolish it. The Ingram-Moores, present barred from being foundation trustees, argued it was a breach of privateness for the publication woody to person been disclosed.

In a connection they added they felt "unfairly and unjustly" treated and accused the committee of "selective storytelling". They said the enquiry had taken a "serious toll connected our household 'mental and carnal health, unfairly tarnishing our sanction and affecting our quality to transportation connected Captain Sir Tom's legacy".