Captain Tom’s daughter says setting up charity ‘completely derailed our lives’

Captain Tom’s daughter says setting up charity ‘completely derailed our lives’



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  1. The daughter of [Captain Sir Tom Moore ](https://inews.co.uk/news/5-damning-revelations-captain-tom-foundation-report-3391777?srsltid=AfmBOoqHJzGzmcyS1q8bieXLXWXwCHelbO_4qL1Jt5F0apd_pIKAZVzy&ico=in-line_link)has said the decision to set up a charity in his name has all but “completely derailed our lives”.

    Hannah Ingram-Moore told the BBC she has the “deepest regret” over setting up the Captain Tom Foundation.

    Capt Sir Tom raised £38.9m for NHS charities after walking up and down his driveway during the first Covid-19 lockdown.

    The 100-year-old Second World War veteran died on 2 February 2021 of coronavirus.

    After Capt Sir Tom’s death, Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband, Colin, became trustees of the Captain Tom Foundation.

    A two-year investigation by the Charity Commission found the couple “misled” the public by benefitting personally from the charity.

    It found that they refused to donate any of the £1.47m received for three Capt Sir Tom books, despite assurances that part of the earnings would be passed to the charity.

    The regulator also took issue with an £18,000 awards ceremony appearance fee, deals with Virgin Media and criticised the couple for not consulting trustees about a spa complex built at their home.

    The Commission concluded the mismanagement was “not an isolated incident but a repeated pattern of behaviour”.

    In an interview with the BBC following the inquiry, Ms Ingram-Moore said: “It didn’t need to be set up as a charity, we could have continued that legacy without it, because what it’s done is all but completely derailed our lives.

  3. No. Being a thieving, greedy creature derailed your pitiful existence.

  5. No wonder her Dad survived the beaches of Normandy.
    The daughter has inherited skin thicker than a prehistoric rhinoceros almost bulletproof

  7. This isn’t a one off, either. I’ve come across so many charities and CICs that are run like playthings for multi millionaires.

  11. I think stealing funds meant for the charity de-railed their lives…

  12. Don’t worry. I’m sure the spa they built with the money people donated will help them relax.

  15. I’m torn on this one.

    It’s either a world’s smallest violin comment or a Behold my Field in which grow my fvks pic.

  16. Surely someone should have advised her to just stop talking to the press?

  18. Well, that, and getting caught red handed pilfering all that charity money.

  19. “Derailed our lives” meaning “we used to have quite a lot of money but now we have an absolute fucking shitload of money that we extorted from the public”? I’m not sympathetic.

  21. It’s charity fraud. Should be doing jail time. Awful people.

  23. Look that spa was an accident, it was accidently built etc.

  24. I think trying to embezzle the charity is what derailed their lives.

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