Captain Tom’s daughter’s company set to be STRUCK OFF after making thousands from Covid hero’s scandal-hit charity
CAPTAIN Tom’s daughter’s company is set to be struck off after making thousands of pounds from the Covid hero’s charity.
Hannah Ingram-Moore and husband Colin have been embroiled in scandal since it came to light that they had funnelled charity cash into an illegal spa.
The couple have long tried to defend themselves in court, been dumped as trustees for the Captain Tom Foundation and have now run into more woes.
The Ingram-Moores’ consultancy firm Maytrix Group Ltd, which raked in a huge amount of cash from the drama-hit foundation, is now set to be struck off.
Companies House shows the business is nearly two months late with its accounts, which should have been due on May 21, 2024.
This is also the third time in the last four years that it’s been threatened with a “notice for compulsory strike-off”.
Maytrix Group took up to £100,000 in furlough money and £47,500 in Covid loans despite bumper profits in the pandemic.
The Captain Tom Moore Foundation accounts also reveal that the firm made a fortune from expenses that it charged the charity.
According to the foundation’s 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)”.
The company’s latest accounts, which was released on September 28, show that accumulated profit had fallen from £195,855 to £170,233, a drop of £25,622.
Hannah is listed as a founding director, and Colin the chief executive.
The Sun has approached Maytrix Group Ltd and the Captain Tom Foundation for comment.
The company’s listed phone number doesn’t ring and it’s website says it “can’t be reached”.
It comes just one week after The Sun exclusively revealed the foundation still had £280,000 of assets in the bank.
Earlier this month Colin was struck off from his top spot as director of the charity after being barred as a trustee – alongside Hannah – by the Charities Commission.
The couple 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.
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
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 Tom united the nation
April 2020 – Captain Tom Moore begins his fundraising effort to walk 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday with the aim of raising £1,000 for the NHS
April 14 – The war veteran smashes his initial target with £1million donated by mid-morning – rising to £2million just hours later
April 15 – More than £7million is donated by over 340,000 supporters as celeb’s praise his heroic effort
April 16 – Captain Tom completes his 100 laps and vows to keep going if people are donating. He receives support from the Prime Minister and Royal family for his incredible achievement
April 24 – The veteran becomes the oldest person to top the charts with his cover of You’ll Never Walk Alone with singer Michael Ball
April 30 – The hero’s fundraising page reaches £32million as he celebrates his 100th birthday. A military flypast honours his birthday milestone and he is made a honorary colonel
July 17 – Captain Tom receives a knighthood from the Queen in a special engagement held just for him
September – He signs a deal to film a biopic of his incredible life and writes bestselling autobiography, titled Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day
October 5 – Captain Tom becomes one of the country’s oldest podcasters with the launch of a series to tackle isolation among older people
December – He celebrates Christmas with his family on a bucket list trip to Barbados
January 31, 2021 – His family reveal he had been admitted to hospital with pneumonia and Covid
Feb 22 – The hero’s family reveal he tragically died, aged 100