The damning report says his daughter Hannah and her husband Colin gained “significant” financial benefit from links to a charity set up to honour World War II hero Captain Tom.
Hero fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore's family have been slammed by a watchdog for pocketing £1 million in his name.
Daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore, 53, and her husband, Colin, 66, set up the Captain Tom Foundation. However, it became the subject of several allegations, leading to investigations by the Charity Commission and Fundraising Regulator. The couple were “very clear” they did not want the money to go to charity, according to Literary agent Bev James, who represented Captain Tom. The Commission said that “to date, the charity has not received any money from the first publishing agreement”.
Planners gave “significant weight... to the fact that the charity was to use the proposed building for its charitable purposes,” the report said. But the £200,000 block was demolished earlier this year after a revised planning application did not feature the word “charity” or “foundation”. He said the Ingram-Moores had failed to “make an unambiguous distinction between their personal interests and those of the charity and the beneficiaries they are there to serve”.
A "Captain Sir Tom" gin that was sold to generate funds for the foundation was allegedly in violation of charity law. The website of Otterbeck Distillery had offered bottles of the gin for £100, with a donation of "all profits" to the organisation. As required by law, the limited edition 50cl bottles were sold without mentioning the amount donated to charity.
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