The daughter of pandemic fundraising legend Captain Sir Tom Moore has expressed deep regrets at a charity being set up in his name and being caught syphoning off funds that well-wishers donated.
Hannah Ingram-Moore reiterated claims that nothing dishonest happened despite her “charity” refusing to hand over any £1.47 million proceeds from a trio of Captain Sir Tom Moore books, paying herself £162,000 in “management costs,” and forking our £200,000 on a spa in her back garden.
Captain Sir Tom Moore became a household name during the first COVID-19 pandemic. The World War Two veteran raised almost £39 million for NHS charities after walking up and down his driveway despite approaching 100 years old. Although all £38.9 million raised was donated to NHS charities, probably because Captain Sir Tom’s daughter had nothing to do with it, the charity set up in his memory has been nothing short of a shambles; some would call it a scam.
The Captain Sir Tom Moore Foundation Funded the Trustees’ Lifestyle
Captain Sir Tom Moore died on February 2, 2021, aged 100. The former British Army Captain died at Bedford Hospital after being treated for pneumonia and later testing positive, ironically, for COVID-19.
The Captain Tom Foundation was incorporated nine months before the legendary fundraiser’s death. Following Captain Sir Tom’s death, Hannah Ingram-Moore and her unscrupulous husband, Colin, became the charity’s trustees. A little over a year later, the Charity Commission launched an investigation after concerns regarding the foundation’s financial relationship with members of the Ingram-Moore family.
Mrs Ingram-Moore has continually denied any wrongdoing and has apologised if people felt misled about her dipping into the charity’s funds and using her father’s name to fund a lavish lifestyle.
“Everyone knows that a CEO of a charity is allowed to use £200,000 of their charity’s funds to build a spa complex in their back garden,” Ingram-Moore told The Yorkshire Tribune.
The local council ordered the spa complex’s demolition because the Ingram-Moore family did not obtain planning permission.
When The Yorkshire Tribune asked Mrs Ingram-Moore what work she undertook to justify an £85,000 salary and tens of thousands in other perks and payments, she was quite abrupt.
“Fuck all, really. I went to a few charity dinners and awards, which I was paid five figures for attending, then looked for holidays and other things to spend donations on.
Charity Commission Disqualifies Helen Ingram-Moore and Colin Ingram-Moore
The scam artist can deny allegations and issue empty apologies all she likes, but that will not change the fact that the Charity Commission found her and her lowlife husband guilty of gross mismanagement.
The commission’s investigation and findings can be found in full here. However, a few things stand out, and we quote:
“The Commission has concluded that Mr and Mrs Ingram-Moore’s misconduct and/or mismanagement was not an isolated incident but a repeated pattern of behaviour which continued past the worst of the Pandemic. The failure to manage conflicts of interest that arose from Mr and Mrs Ingram-Moore’s familial links and the charity’s links to their private companies happened repeatedly and led to direct and indirect private benefit for Mr and Mrs Ingram-Moore. It is of note that any conflicts of interest which arose in the early agreements with Ingram-Moore companies, before they became trustees and/or interim CEO as set out in this report, were identified and managed appropriately by the unconflicted trustees at the time.”
Mrs. Ingram-Moore was disqualified from being a charity trustee for ten years and her husband for eight years.
Amazingly, Mrs. Ingram-Moore is self-publishing three books over the next two years. The first book is about handling grief, the second is about resilience, and the third is an autobiography. The Yorkshire Tribune has learned of a fourth book in the series, one that details how to use people’s good nature against them for your benefit.
