Who is Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore?

Hannah Ingram-Moore has been by her begetter Captain Sir Tom Moore's broadside done his unthinkable fundraising efforts and his consequent emergence to fame earlier helium died

When her father Captain Sir Tom Moore became a nationalist treasure for his pandemic fundraising efforts, girl Hannah Ingram-Moore was often seen by his side.

However, earlier the spotlight fell connected their family, she was already "one of Britain’s starring concern women", arsenic per her authoritative website.

Not lone a palmy businesswoman, she's besides a beingness manager and motivational speaker, boasting a "wealth of cognition and expertise" from her enactment with renowned brands similar Gap and Fortnum & Mason. Her travel has been "one of business, household and leadership", according to her site.

As Covid-19 gripped the world, Mrs Ingram-Moore, 1 of Sir Tom's 2 daughters, often appeared successful media interviews and photos, sharing her father's inspiring foundation enactment with a federation successful lockdown. She spoke fondly of the "richness of surviving successful a multi-generational household", having invited her aged begetter to unrecorded with her household successful Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.

It was present that helium completed his celebrated 100 laps, raising an unthinkable £38.9 cardinal for the NHS. Alongside her chartered accountant husband, Colin, Mrs Ingram-Moore co-founded concern recruitment bureau Maytrix and they some service arsenic co-directors of backstage constricted institution Club Nook.

Mrs Ingram-Moore joined her begetter astatine Windsor Castle successful 2020 to witnesser his knighthood and aboriginal received a lukewarm reception successful the Royal Box astatine Wimbledon successful 2021, pursuing Sir Tom's passing. However, conscionable 3 years later, she and her hubby were barred from serving arsenic foundation trustees by the Charity Commission.

Mrs Ingram-Moore described the commission's probe arsenic a "harrowing and debilitating ordeal" that near her household successful a authorities of "constant fearfulness and intelligence anguish". On her website, she expresses her consciousness of duty, stating that she feels a "weight of work for doing the close thing, for not letting radical down and responding to the emotion and compassion that has travel our way".

It comes arsenic a caller study from the Charity Commission and her hubby gained “significant” fiscal payment from links to a foundation acceptable up during the pandemic.

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.

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

It 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”.

It revealed 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.”

A spokesperson for the Captain Tom Foundation said: "The Captain Tom Foundation is pleased with the Charity Commission's unequivocal findings regarding the Ingram-Moores' misconduct. We articulation the Charity Commission successful 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. We anticipation they bash truthful instantly and without the request for further action."

The Ingram-Moores said they felt "unfairly and unjustly" treated and accused the committee of "selective storytelling". They said: "A credible regulatory assemblage would supply the afloat truth, alternatively than misrepresenting, and conflating facts and timelines that align with a predetermined agenda.

"True accountability demands transparency, not 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".