Captain Tom’s daughter’s husband FINALLY struck off as director of charity after being barred as trustee over spa row
CAPTAIN Tom’s daughter’s husband has been struck off from his top spot as director of the charity after being barred as a trustee.
Colin Ingram-Moore, and wife Hannah, were shunted as trustees by the Charities Commission after it came to light that they funnelled charity cash into an illegal spa.
This week Colin was still listed as one of the two leaders of the Captain Tom Foundation.
However, it was today revealed the dad had been struck off – with documents titled Termination of a Director Appointment filed on Companies House.
A letter said that Colin had been stripped of his role on June 25 this year.
The Captain Tom Foundation has been approached for comment.
It comes after Colin and Hannah were banned as charity trustees for eight and 10 years respectively.
In November the couple were ordered to tear down the unauthorised luxury spa.
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.
The couple, who are still cashing in on Captain 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 also was paid the large sum to attend the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards in 2021.
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