Accounts show the net current assets of her company to be just £149 (Image: Getty)
Lockdown hero Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter faced fresh humiliation yesterday after accounts showed her company has suffered financial collapse.
Club Nook, run by Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin, was set up to manage the late Second World War army officer’s commercial interests and intellectual property.
Statements filed with Companies House reveal it has net current assets of £149. The previous year the figure stood at a healthy £336,300.
In accounts to the financial year end in April, the company owed creditors £67,000 and its liabilities stood at £19,246.
It comes after Mrs Ingram-Moore, 54, a self-styled business leader and brand marketing coach, suffered ignominy after being shamed in a Charity Commission probe.
Captain Sir Tom became a national hero and global celebrity after walking 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, in a lockdown-inspired drive that raised £39 million for the NHS.
He was feted across the world and knighted at Windsor Castle by the late Queen Elizabeth II, whose father he served under during the Second World War.
In his memoir Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day, taken from an inspirational saying that became synonymous with his endeavours, the hero said the daily walks were an opportunity “to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name”.
But after his death in 2021 his daughter and her husband trousered the publishing advance from the book.
Captain Sir Tom reads his memoir (Image: PA)
A scathing report published by the Charity Commission found that the Ingram-Moores benefited “significantly” through their association with the high-profile Captain Tom Foundation and were guilty of “serious and repeated” instances of misconduct, mismanagement and failures of integrity – among them the book deal.
The damning report said the public had been “misled” thinking items purchased would benefit the Captain Tom Foundation, set up in May 2020 to carry on raising money for charity in his name.
In a previous interview with TalkTV’s Mrs Ingram-Moore broke down as she told how her fundraising father wanted his family to keep money from three books in a firm separate to the Captain Tom Foundation charity.
She said: “These were my father’s books, and it was honestly such a joy for him to write them, but they were his books. He had an agent and they worked on that deal.”
Among a slew of trademarked memorabilia, his tomes included Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography, One Hundred Steps: The Story of Captain Sir Tom Moore and Captain Tom’s Life Lessons.
The Captain Tom Foundation was set up as a legacy charity after his death.
Speaking to the Daily Express in her only newspaper interview previously, she sobbed down as she explained: “People think the foundation received £38.9 million and there is no separation between the phenomenal three-and-a-half weeks in which money was raised by my father for NHS Charities Together and the Captain Tom Foundation, which we set up later.
“My father’s incredible journey started on April 6, 2020 and ended on April 30, 2020 with all money going to NHS Charities Together, which was responsible for distributing it. The charity was founded in June and officially launched in September 2020.”
The foundation in her father’s name was set up to raise cash for charities focusing on helping the elderly, as was his wish.
The couple appealed to Central Bedfordshire Council but lost (Image: PA)
Burma Campaign hero Capt Sir Tom’s garden walks came after plans to celebrate his 100th birthday were shelved because of . His family set a target of walking 100 laps of the garden at the home he shared with his daughter, her husband, and their children Benjie, 19, and Georgia, 15.
Mrs Ingram-Moore said: “We needed to give people hope by creating the charity. Everything we do as a family is immersed in trying to ensure his legacy reaches as many people as possible because we are the guardians of it. Not in a million years would any of us want to jeopardise that. All we have ever done is try and support the foundation. We have not – and never will – make a financial gain from the charity. I want people to know it was never about the money, it’s about connecting humanity.
“I am utterly devastated that anyone would think we would misappropriate any money.”
Mrs Ingram-Moore was paid £18,000 for attending the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards in 2021 – when already being remunerated as chief executive of the body.
The money was paid to her family firm, Maytrix Group, and she banked £16,000, donating £2,000 to the Captain Tom Foundation.
The Charity Commission launched an inquiry into the foundation in June last year, after identifying concerns about the charity’s management.
It had already opened a case into the charity shortly after he died and began reviewing the set-up of the organisation.
The watchdog’s intervention into the foundation had a “massive adverse impact” on fundraising.
Planning chiefs at Central Bedfordshire Council ordered the demolition of an unauthorised spa pool block at Mrs Ingram-Moore’s home.
After that scandal one furious individual posted: “Captain Tom walked so his daughter could swim.” Another added: “He did laps of his garden so she could do laps of her pool.”