Captain Tom’s daughter kept £1.5m book cash intended for NHS, demanded £150k salary & built pool in garden, report finds
THE daughter of NHS fundraising hero Captain Tom Moore pocketed £1.5million from a book deal — giving none to his charity.
A Charity Commission report found it was among moves by Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband to plunder her father’s memory for their own benefit.
Much of the money is thought to have been ploughed into an illegal luxury spa that Ingram-Moore, 54, and husband Colin, 67, had built in their garden using the Captain Tom Foundation charity name.
The report also reveals that Ingram-Moore, blocked from paying herself a £150,000 salary as charity CEO, took £85,000 a year and reimbursed her own firm with £80,000 in costs from the foundation.
The couple hoodwinked the public by promising royalties to the charity from its merchandise website.
Instead buyers were redirected to external sites where no commission to good causes was collected.
And they gave the charity £8,900 from a Capt Tom gin from profits thought to be well over £100,000.
Publishers Penguin agreed to pay a £1.4million advance to the Ingram-Moores’ private company for Capt Tom’s memoir on the understanding a contribution would be made to his charity.
He raised nearly £39million for NHS charities by walking 100 lockdown laps of his garden.
In the prologue to Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day, Capt Tom, who died in 2021 aged 100, wrote: “I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation established in my name.”
Just £17,000 in royalties went to charity.
The report concluded: “The public would understandably feel misled given no donation has been made to the charity.”
Last year, Ingram-Moore wept as she told Piers Morgan she and her hubby pocketed £800,000 from book sales.
But the true scale of their plunder is far greater.
Retired Met chief Mick Neville blasted: “It strikes me as greedy and wicked.”
Charity Commission chief David Holdsworth said: “The failings amount to misconduct and, or, mismanagement.”
The Ingram-Moores, who used Capt Tom’s name to try to sell their £2.25million home in Marston Moretaine, Beds, have been banned as charity trustees.
Penguin said: “We are extremely disappointed.”
Liz Brownsell, of law firm Birketts, said: “There is nothing suggesting fraud.
“It is more a moral than a legal issue.”
The Captain Tom Foundation last night asked for the cash back “immediately and without the need for further action”.