Captain Tom’s fundraising website taken down after daughter’s business collapses
The Captain Tom Foundation has shut down its website following a turbulent three years when it ceased taking donations.
The platform for fundraising in the late World War Two veteran’s honour has vanished at a time when the charity’s future is unclear following a highly critical official report about its governance.
The takedown has emerged after news that a company run by the record-breaking fundraiser’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin showed a huge loss in net assets on its balance sheet
Club Nook registered a fall of more than £330,000 in the year to April 2024, accounts registered at Companies House show.
In September, Metro reported how the website was stating that the charity was ‘not presently actively seeking any funding from donors.’
At that point, the foundation honouring Captain Tom had registered a more than £1 million fall in income over the space of three years.
Two months later the Charity Commission report found that the Ingram-Moores had made ‘repeated failures’ at the helm of the foundation.
The couple responded by branding the inquiry ‘unjust and excessive’ and insisted they ‘never took a penny’ from public donations.
Captain Tom shot to fame when he raised £38.9 million for NHS Charities Together, a separate charity, with 100 laps of his garden for his 100th birthday at the height of the Covid lockdown in 2020.
The foundation, where Ms Ingram-Moore was previously CEO, was set up to spread the generosity shown by the centenarian among a wide range of good causes. A number of high-profile activities were promoted via the website after Captain Tom’s death in February 2021.
They included the ‘Captain Tom 100’ to mark what would have been his 101st birthday in April 2021.
The charity said in its 2022 accounts that it had closed all payment channels while the statutory inquiry remained open and on its website stated that it was ‘not presently actively seeking any funding from donors.’
The document described the commission’s intervention as having a ‘massive adverse impact’ affecting its abilities to ‘raise new funds and deliver operational activities.’
‘Once the findings of the Statutory Inquiry have been communicated, The Captain Tom Foundation will be in a better position to make a decision in relation to its future,’ the statement read.
The Ingram-Moores’ legal team later indicated that the charity would close once the inquiry had concluded.
The commission’s report found that the family had gained ‘significant personal benefit’ from the foundation.
The Ingram-Moores had been disqualified from serving as charity trustees at an earlier point in the investigation.
The coule responded by saying that ‘true accountability demands transparency, not selective storytelling.’
The foundation has not given any further update on its status and is still registered at the commission as of January 22.
A message on the website today reads ‘domain not claimed.’
Metro has attempted to contact the foundation for comment.
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