David Holdsworth from the Charity Commission says there is a 'pattern of behaviour' showing Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband took money from Captain Tom Moore foundation for personal use.
The former chief executive of the Captain Tom Foundation has said he was 'gobsmacked' by what he discovered at the charity.
Captain Tom rose to fame during the pandemic, raising millions for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden in lockdown before he died in February 2021 aged 100.Mr Gilbert took over as chief executive from Mrs Ingram-Moore and ran the charity for five months until the watchdog investigation into the charity caused it to become inactive.
'One of my first exercises was, of course, to get trusted charity status for the foundation, which meant going through a whole range of different hurdles. She claimed the appearance was made 'in a personal capacity' but the watchdog disagreed and the report stated the money should have gone to the foundation.
Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin were found to have benefited 'significantly' through their association with the high-profile charity Among those criticising them was former Met detective Mick Neville, who said their behaviour 'strikes me as greedy and wicked'. 'I think everyone got behind Captain Tom and I think we all remember during the pandemic the smile he brought to all our faces - it reminded us of what service to others can actually achieve,' he told BBC Breakfast.Hannah Ingram-Moore making 'disingenuous' public statements suggesting she had not been offered a six-figure sum to become the Captain Tom Foundation's chief executive, when she had actually requested a £150,000 remuneration package to take on the role.
Using the foundation's name in a planning application for a luxury spa facility in the grounds of the family's £2.25 million home in Bedfordshire. The Ingram-Moores claimed this was an error that occurred while both were 'busy undertaking global media work'. The building – which was larger than agreed by Central Bedfordshire Council - was torn down earlier this year after the couple lost an appeal against the local authority's order to demolish it.
The report revealed the grasping couple had twice been invited to 'rectify matters by making a donation to the charity in line with their original intentions as understood by those involved' but had 'declined to do so'. The hard-hitting 30-page report concluded Mr and Mrs Ingram-Moore's failings 'amount to misconduct and/or mismanagement'.
'When it was all going on it was nice for the village,' said the 34-year-old, who lives near to the Ingram-Moores in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.But he said he 'couldn't really care less any more', adding: 'They're not going to go to jail or have to repay it.''Maybe if she gave half of it to charity or something nobody would be hounding her,' he said.
The couple described the inquiry and their bans as trustees as a 'harrowing and debilitating ordeal'. Charity Commission chief executive David Holdsworth said the report had uncovered 'repeated failures of governance and integrity' and the foundation had 'not lived up to that legacy of others before self, which is central to charity'.
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