Captain Tom’s family ‘still hasn’t paid funds owed to charity set up in his name’
The family of Captain Sir Tom Moore is said to have not paid ‘funds due’ to a charity in his name after a highly critical watchdog investigation.
The late World War Two veteran’s family is also said to have made a ‘demand’ that his name be stripped from the foundation’s title.
The Captain Tom Foundation has become the 1189808 Foundation, known only by its charity registration number, it emerged this week.
A Charity Commission spokesperson told Metro that the watchdog will ‘continue to engage’ with the charity while its ‘future is determined.’
In November, the commission found that the Ingram-Moores had made ‘repeated failures’ at the helm of the charity.
The watchdog found that the family had gained ‘significant personal benefit’ from the foundation.
The Ingram-Moores had been disqualified from serving as charity trustees at an earlier point in the investigation.
The couple responded by branding the inquiry ‘unjust and excessive’ and insisting they ‘never took a penny’ from public donations.
On Thursday, the foundation’s remaining trustee said he was ‘imploring the Ingram-Moores to rectify matters by returning the funds due’ so they could be donated ‘to well-deserving charities as intended by the late Captain Sir Tom Moore’.
A foundation spokesperson said: ‘Notwithstanding the Charity Commission’s findings against the Ingram-Moores, as well as their failure to rectify matters by returning the funds properly due to it, The Captain Tom Foundation considers it inappropriate to stand in the way of the family’s wish regarding the use of the late Sir Captain Tom’s name.
‘The Foundation has therefore acceded to the family’s demand that it removes Captain Tom’s name from its title.’
Mrs Ingram-Moore has also been prohibited from holding a senior management role in any charity in England and Wales for 10 years, and Mr Ingram-Moore for eight years.
He resigned as director of the foundation in June last year, while Mrs Ingram-Moore quit in 2021.
The foundation was set up to continue the goodwill which began when Captain Tom raised £38.9 million for NHS Charities Together by walking 100 laps of his garden for his 100th birthday in 2020.
The millions donated to the health service before the foundation was formed were not part of the commission’s inquiry.
The national figurehead died in February 2021, after which his family continued the high-profile fundraising campaign in his memory.
Earlier this month it emerged that a firm run by the Ingram-Moores has registered a fall in net assets of more than £330,000.
Club Nook Ltd had just £149 in the column — showing everything a company owns minus its debts — in the year ending April 2024, down from £336,300 in the previous 12 months, the financial statements show.
More than £67,000 was owed to creditors in the most recent period, compared with £6,518 before, according to the balance sheet.
A lawyer for the Ingram-Moores indicated back in 2023 that the foundation might shut down and the charity stopped taking donations that summer.
The Ingram-Moores have not responded to a request for comment.
Responding to an earlier query from Metro, a Charity Commission spokesperson said: ‘We continue to engage with the remaining trustee of The Captain Tom Foundation as the charity’s future is determined.’
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