CAPTAIN Sir Tom Moore's daughter's business has lost £150,000 in a year after being engulfed in a row about the proceeds of her hero dad’s books.
But the firm still appears to be earning cash.
She confessed to talk show host Piers Morgan how she’d earned £800,000 from the books and took thousands more in government Covid cash. The revelations were first revealed in The Sun.
Hannah Ingram-Moore admitted that she took all the proceeds from the three books her father wrote before his death, as that is what he “specifically” wanted.
Charity Commission bosses are now probing the couple.
The public assumed all the money from the books’ sales was going to good causes.
But £800,000 went to her firm Club Nook Ltd, which was set up just four months before the first tome, Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography, was published in September 2020.
Accounts filed by the firm this week show that it is now worth £336,3000 for 2023 – that’s down on the £482,268 profit for 2022.
Captain Tom’s second book One Hundred Steps: The Story of Captain Tom Moore was also released in October 2020.
However, the latest balance sheet also shows creditors of £33,190 to be paid within a year.
Included in this figure is also certainly a Corporation Tax bill – meaning the firm is still taking in cash.
In the previous year, the bills were £184,513.
In April 2021, Captain Tom’s Life Lessons hit the shelves two months after his death at the age of 100.
Club Nook paid £160,239 in Corporation Tax in 2021.
Hannah and her husband Colin’s management consultancy firm Maytrix Group Ltd has also been under attack.
They have been criticised by the public for swathes of decisions, including Maytrix Group taking up to £100,000 in furlough money and £47,500 in Covid loans despite bumper profits in the pandemic.
The Captain Tom Moore Foundation accounts also reveal spending more on admin fees that it did on charity grants, including expenses taken by the Maytrix Group, and Hannah paying herself an £85,000-a-year pro rata salary as the interim charity CEO, which lasted three months.
When asked about the money from the books by Morgan, a tearful Ingram-Moore said: “These were my father’s books, and it was honestly such a joy for him to write them, but they were his books.
“He had an agent and they worked on that deal, and his wishes were that that money would sit in Club Nook, and in the end...”
Piers then asks her, “For you to keep?”, and she incredibly replied “Yes... specifically.”
Hannah also spoke of her “regret” over the spa and pool complex she had built at her £1.2million home in her dad's name, claiming to planners it was actually an office for the Captain Tom charity.
Speaking about how she managed the charity and its finances, she added: “I think it’s all very easy to look back and think I should have made different -decisions, but I hadn’t planned on being the CEO.”
In 2022, the Charity Commission last year launched an inquiry into the foundation amid concerns about consultancy fees and payments to Maytrix Group.
It is also probing the couple’s move to trademark Sir Tom’s name and slogan.
