18 January 2024 , 13:24
698
0
Newly published accounts show a company owned by Sir Captain Tom Moore’s daughter has lost £145,000 over the last financial year.
Last year Hannah Ingram-Moore told TalkTV her late father wanted the firm, known as Club Nook Ltd, to hold the money from his three books. However, the forward written by Sir Tom, who raised £38million for the by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday during the pandemic, seemed to suggest they were to raise money for the charitable foundation in its name.
The latest unaudited accounts for the firm, available at Companies House, show its net assets for 2022 stood at £482,268. But over the next financial year, the amount fell to £336,300 - a fall of £145,968. There was also a fall in the amount due to creditors, from £184,513 to £31,990 over the same timeframe.
Ms Ingram Moore with her father, Captain Sir Tom (PA)In an interview broadcast last October, Ms Ingram-Moore told TalkTV's Piers Morgan her campaigner father wanted his family to keep the money from the three books in Club Nook Ltd - a firm separate from the Captain Tom Foundation charity. She explained: "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, and his wishes were that that money would sit in Club Nook.”
However, the prologue to Sir Tom's autobiography, Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day, appears to suggest it was raising money for the Captain Tom Foundation. Published in September 2020, it read: "Astonishingly at my age, with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name."
Teachers, civil servants and train drivers walk out in biggest strike in decade
The foundation is currently the subject of an investigation by the Charity Commission, amid concerns about its management and independence from Sir Tom’s family. The charity watchdog opened a case into the foundation shortly after the 100-year-old died in 2021, and launched its inquiry in June 2022. Scott Stemp, representing Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband, said at the appeal hearing that the foundation “is to be closed down following an investigation by the Charity Commission”.
She and her husband were also embroiled in an argument over a luxury spa pool erected in their garden without planning permission. They were later ordered to tear it down. Ms Ingram-Moore has been approached for comment by the Mirror.