Watchdogs are locked in talks with The Captain Tom Foundation over the charity's future - after the official store was left nearly £25,000 in debt. The Charity Commission confirmed they were "engaged" with the one remaining trustee "as the charity's future is determined". It comes after the Mirror revealed documents had been filed to strip the lockdown hero's name from the charity set up in his honour. Capt Tom's 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.

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. Mrs Ingram Moore and Mr Ingram-Moore 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".

Today the Mirror can also reveal the foundation’s official store was left £25,000 in debt. Mrs Ingram-Moore and Mr Ingram-Moore were allowed to take control of the online shop, the report found. They set up a company called CTV (2020) Ltd, where 15 per cent of all items sold on the website would be donated to the charity. But the company’s accounts reveal that in the year 2022 it had a turnover of just £623 and accumulated losses of £23,820. Most recent documents filed with Companies House in July show CTV (2020) Ltd was £24,876 in debt - and owed £30,378 to creditors. A Charities Commission report revealed the foundation had received just £1,269 in donations from the store, which works out as £8,465 in total sales - and all of it from t-shirts, no other merchandise.

The report never got to the bottom of how much was sold away from the official website and on third-party sites, but said the website only made cash directly from t-shirts. It stated: "The inquiry found that it was only the branded t-shirts procured and sold directly by CTV that resulted in the 15% donation referred to above. While it was active the online store operated at a loss and the charity received only £1,269.75 in donations from the store.".

When the Mirror contacted the Charity Commission regarding latest developments, a spokesman said: "We continue to engage with the remaining trustee of The Captain Tom Foundation, as the charity’s future is determined. We cannot comment further on this matter while that work is ongoing.". 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. The extract 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.". The latest revelations come just days after the Mirror revealed the family had been forced to slash £250,000 off the price of their country mansion and wipe any mention of his name from an online listing. Capt Tom's family had tried to shift the sprawling seven-bed mansion for a whopping £2.25m using his name last year.

They strategically placed a photo of Capt Tom being knighted by the late Queen in 2020 in an online listing. And a bust recreating the moment he finished his multi-million pound fundraising walk during the pandemic was also seen in a snap of the main hallway. But they pulled the property off the open market amid a backlash at their handling of the charity set up in his name. Now the property in Marston Moretaine, Beds, is back up for grabs for offers in excess of £2million - with no sign of Capt Tom in any of the images.

An online listing makes no mention of the veteran's charity heroics and does not name his daughter or her husband. It simply states: "The vendors have owned the property for 18 years and have undertaken a comprehensive programme of improvement and renovation.". In November the couple were criticised by a watchdog for pocketing more than £1million in his name. They gained significant financial benefit from links to a charity - the Captain Tom Foundation - that they set up in 2020, a report said.

The Charity Commission said its probe into the foundation uncovered "repeated failures of governance and integrity". Second World War veteran Capt Tom raised nearly £39m for charity during the pandemic by walking 100 lengths of his garden ahead of his 100th birthday in April 2020. He was knighted months later and died aged 100 in 2021. The Charity Commission's statutory inquiry found the Ingram-Moores' "misconduct and/ or mismanagement [was a] repeated pattern of behaviour".