Covid hero Captain Sir Tom Moore's name has been stripped from the charity set-up in his honour just months after his family faced a backlash for their handling of the fund. The veteran - who was knighted before he died aged 100 in 2021 - raised more than £30 million for the NHS performing laps of his garden during lockdown. But his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore, 53, and her husband, and husband Colin, 66, were criticised for pocketing money from his books for themselves rather than it going to charity.
Now papers have been filed to Companies House to rename The Captain Tom Foundation. Documents – lodged this week – reveal the outfit is now called The 1189808 Foundation, using its registered charity number. Most recent accounts filed in the summer revealed the firm had more than £262,600 in assets on its books.
Last week the web page for The Captain Tom Foundation disappeared just months after a Charity Commission investigation was highly critical of Mrs Ingram-Moore and her husband. They had both been made trustees in 2021 for the elderly support charity that had been founded a year prior, named after WW2 Captain Sir Tom.
Now, when trying to locate the charity's website, users are met with a message claiming that the domain is "not claimed". In 2023, Mrs Ingram-Moore admitted that £800,000 worth of profits from Capt Tom's three books had been paid into her company, Club Nook.
In a TV interview, she claimed her father wanted his family to keep the profits from Captain Tom's Life Lessons, One Hundred Steps and Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day and insisted readers were never told the money would go to charity. But this was called into question by the prologue of the third book, an autobiography, which suggests the veteran thought his books were just another way for him to fundraise.
