SHUT DOWN
Final nail for Captain Tom’s daughter’s charity as website is REMOVED – after probe found she personally profited
It comes as her own business was also reported this month to have collapsed
CAPTAIN Tom's daughter's charity was dealt a final blow as its website was removed following a probe that found she personally profited from it.
The web page for The Captain Tom Foundation disappeared just months after a Charity Commission investigation was highly critical of Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin Ingram-Moore.
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They had both been made trustees in 2021 for the elderly support charity that had been founded a year prior, named for WW2 Captain Sir Tom Moore.
Now, when trying to locate the charity's website, users are met with a message claiming that the domain is "not claimed".
Both Hannah and Colin were disqualified from being charity trustees after the humiliating probe found the pair had received "significant personal benefit" from the "mismanaged" foundation.
The Charity Commission report also highlighted "repeated failures" with both Hannah and Colin's leadership and "repeated instances of misconduct and/ or mismanagement".
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This comes as Hannah's own business Club Nook, that she co-runs with her husband, had collapsed, according to accounts filed with Companies House.
The business had been created to manage The Captain Tom Foundation's commercial interests and intellectual property.
But the latest documents have shown it only has current assets of £149, a stark contrast to last year's £336,300.
Liabilities have also dropped from £106,104 to £19,246 net within a year.
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This also comes as Mrs Ingram-Moore took her controversial country home off the market after failing to find a buyer in 10 months.
The seven-bed property in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, had been on the market since April 2024 with a whopping £2.25million price tag.
But even after shamelessly using Captain Tom's name in publicity material, Hannah and Colin failed to flog it.
The property is listed as "no longer available" on estate agent Fine and Country's website - and the firm confirmed to The Sun it is "no longer appointed as the agents".
How Captain Sir Tom Moore rose to fame & his daughter's controversies
- March 2020 - D-Day veteran Captain Tom Moore walks 100 laps around his Bedfordshire garden before his 100th birthday, raising £30million for the NHS during the first lockdown.
- April 2020 - Captain Tom reaches No. 1 in the charts with his cover of 'You'll Never Walk Alone'. He receives 100,000 cards for his 100th birthday, which is marked with a Battle of Britain flypast. A train is named after him.
- July 2020 - Captain Tom is knighted by the Queen in a special private ceremony at Windsor Castle.
- September 2020 - Hannah Ingram-Moore launches the Captain Tom Foundation to combat loneliness.
- December 2020 - Drones swarm into the shape of Captain Tom's face at the New Year's Eve firework display in London.
- February 2021 - Captain Sir Tom Moore dies after catching covid-19.
- February 2022 - The Charity Commission launches a probe into the Captain Tom foundation after it paid £50,000 to companies run by Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin.
- July 2023 - The foundation stops accepting donations. Planning chiefs order Hannah to tear down an unauthorised spa at her Bedfordshire home. The building had been approved to be used "in connection with the Captain Tom Foundation and its charitable objectives". But a larger building with a spa pool was built instead and was denied retrospective planning permission. Hannah appeals.
- September 2023 - accounts reveal Hannah received more than £70,000 to head the foundation.
- October 2023 - Hannah loses her appeal and is ordered to demolish the spa and restore the garden to its original condition.
- January 2024 - Demolition work begins.
- November 2024 - Probe finds family "repeatedly benefitted" from "mismanaged" foundation.
- January 2025 - Her business Club Nook collapses with just £149 in assets compared to £336,300 a year prior. The foundation's website also disappears.
Hannah and Colin put the Grade II-listed home, which sits within 3.5 acres, on the market just a few months after they lost their appeal to keep the spa complex in their garden.
The "unauthorised" luxury spa complex was torn down in January last year after the Planning Inspectorate ruled it was built illegally.
Her property was then taken off major websites such as Zoopla and Rightmove back in October - after the family opted for a more "private discreet listing".
Fine and Country told at the time that the family did not want the property to be advertised any longer.
It saw them remove it from property portals, although said it was still for sale and interested buyers should approach them directly.
Now, it has been taken off the market completely.
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The original property listing showed the family were still shamelessly cashing in on beloved Tom by using his memory to push the sale.
A statue of Tom could be seen on full view in the main hallway in the agent photos.
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