Captain Tom’s fundraising website taken down after daughter’s business collapses
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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.
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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.
