Captaln Tom' S family personally benefited from charity they founded, watchdog finds

The family of the NHS charities fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore personally benefited from the charity set up in his name through a series of lucrative deals worth more than Elm, the charities watchdog has ruled in a highly critical report.

- Patrick Butler

A Charity Commission inquiry concluded that Captain Tom's daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband, Colin Ingram-Moore, were culpable of "serious and repeated" instances of misconduct, mismanagement and failures of integrity.

The Ingram-Moores, who set up the Captain Tom Foundation in 2020 to support good causes, repeatedly blurred their private interests with those of the charity while gaining "significant" personal benefit, the inquiry found.

Despite claiming they would not be involved in the foundation, the Ingram-Moores exercised high levels of control, the inquiry found, helped by weak oversight by trustees who were often kept in the dark.

The inquiry report is especially critical of a £1.5m three-book deal signed in May 2020 on behalf of Captain Tom by Hannah Ingram Moore, which promotional materials suggested would benefit the charity, but which was an almost purely commercial deal enriching the family. Although the inquiry was told the Ingram-Moores had promised to make a donation to the charity from the deal, they did not do so. Other findings include: