Captain Tom’s daughter’s husband is STILL listed as director of charity – despite being barred as trustee after spa row
CAPTAIN Tom’s shamed daughter and her husband are still listed as director of the foundation – despite being banned as charity trustees.
Hannah and Colin Ingram-Moore were disqualified as trustees for ten and eight years respectively by the Charities Commission after it was sensationally revealed they funnelled charity cash into an illegal spa.
The controversial couple, who are still cashing in on beloved Tom by using his memory to push the sale of their seven-bed £2.25million pad, were found to have raked in tens of thousands.
Hannah previously spoke about the ordeal in a bombshell interview with TalkTV‘s Piers Morgan and admitted to pocketing money from the £39million NHS fund-raising veteran.
She revealed they kept £800,000 from the three books her dad had written – claiming he had wanted them to keep the profits.
Other controversies include her £18,000 payment to attend the Captain Tom awards – and only donating £2,000 of it to his charity.
The veteran’s daughter was paid the large sum to attend the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards in 2021.
Their consultancy firm Maytrix Group also took up to £100,000 in furlough money and £47,500 in Covid loans despite bumper profits during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, according to accounts, Maytrix Group was handed back £37,942 in reimbursements “in respect of website costs (£5,030), photography costs (£550), office rental (£4,500), telephone costs (£656) and third-party consultancy costs (£27,205).”
Since the drama unfolded, Hannah and Colin were banned as charity trustees – but Captain Tom’s son-in-law is listed as one of only two directors of the business.
He is listed at Companies House as being a director since March 2021 and has 50 per cent control along with the other director Stephen Jones.
The latest filed accounts reveal the foundation is sat on £417,867 in reserves and had raised £465,9090 during 2021 and 2022 while dishing out £210,000 in grants.
Colin was also the family trustee, but now the foundation has only one trustee in Jones.
Another trustee Simon DeMaid stepped down in December.
This came after The Times reported in July that DeMaid and Jones, attempted to rebrand the charity after the swathe of negative publicity.
They reportedly discussed how to remove Colin from the board.
But, the foundation’s articles of association – which specifies the rules and regulations of the charity – ruled there still had to be three trustees, not two.
The latest annual report says they had three new trustees “willing to join the Board” but they “all withdrew their applications”.
DeMaid and Jones also supposedly wanted to drop Captain Tom’s name and rebrand the charity to “championing the elderly” after the ‘spa scandal’.
It is not illegal to be listed as a director while being disqualified from being a trustee.
Hannah and Colin Ingram-Moore were contacted for comment.
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 2023 – Demolition work begins
It comes after Hannah and Colin were ordered to tear down the unauthorised luxury spa in November.
They had six weeks to rescue the building after losing a court case in October – but failed to launch an appeal.
The Planning Inspectorate previously ruled the spa was built illegally. will have to be pulled down in three months.
Central Bedfordshire Council originally granted the couple permission to erect a small charity office in the name of the Captain Tom Foundation in 2021.
Hanna and Colin’s statement claimed the building was to be used partly “in connection with The Captain Tom Foundation and its charitable objectives”.
Then, in 2022, they submitted a subsequent retrospective application for an extension to form a C-shape building, containing a spa pool.
The structure was referred to as The Captain Tom Building and described as “a new building for use by the occupiers”, aka Hannah and Colin.
The court heard this later “evolved” to include the spa pool, with changing rooms, toilets and showers to sit alongside their £1.2million home.
FOUNDATION CONTROVERSY
The foundation stopped receiving donations in June 2022 after an investigation was escalated to a statutory inquiry.
The Charity Commission launched a probe after the charity’s accounts showed it had given £160,000 in charitable grants while £240,000 was spent on management and fundraising costs.
Also, in its first year of operation, more than £54,000 was reimbursed to Club Nook Limited and Maytrix Group Limited, controlled by Hannah and her husband.
In a statement, a spokesperson said: “At this moment in time, the sole focus of The Captain Tom Foundation is to ensure that it cooperates fully with the ongoing Statutory Inquiry by the Charity Commission.
“As a result, The Captain Tom Foundation is not presently actively seeking any funding from donors.”