The money-making schemes of Captain Tom Moore's daughter and husband ended in disgrace last year when they were criticized in a Charity Commission report.
And accounts filed at Companies House now reveal that the financial fortunes of the company they founded have also collapsed.
Club Nook, run by Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband David, was intended to manage the late army officer's commercial interests and intellectual property.
It has a net current asset of just £149. Last year this amount was £336,300.
Meanwhile, the company owes £67,000 to creditors on its accounts until April 2024. Liabilities are recorded at £19,246 net, while in the year to April 2023 they were £106,104 in the black.
Captain Tom stole the hearts of the nation when he walked 100 laps of his garden in Bedfordshire to raise money for the NHS as he celebrated his 100th birthday in 2020.
Nearly £39 million was raised for NHS Covid charities and he was knighted by the Queen in July 2020.
Later that year, his memoir Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day was published. He wrote in the prologue that it was “an opportunity to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name.”
Club Nook, run by Hannah Ingram-Moore (pictured) and her husband David, was intended to manage the late army officer's commercial interests and intellectual property
Captain Tom Moore photographed in the garden of his home near Milton Keynes with daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore
Hannah Ingram-Moore, daughter of Captain Sir Tom Moore (pictured) and her husband Colin Ingram-Moore
However, after his death in 2021, it emerged that his daughter and her husband had pocketed the publication advance from the book.
A critical report published by the Charity Commission in November last year found that the Ingram-Moores benefited 'significantly' from their partnership with the high-profile Captain Tom Foundation and engaged in 'serious and repeated' incidents of misconduct, mismanagement and government failure. integrity – including the book deal.
The public was 'misled', the damning report says, into buying items they thought would benefit the Captain Tom Foundation, which was set up in May 2020 to raise money for the charity following its success of his sponsored walk.
Questions were first raised in February 2022 when it was reported that £240,000 of the charity's £400,000 expenditure went towards fundraising and administration costs and £50,000 in 'reimbursed expenses' was paid to companies controlled by the Ingram-Moores.
A view of Hannah Ingram-Moore's house in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire
Captain Tom Moore raised more than £12 million for the NHS during Covid-19 by walking through his back garden
The Charity Commission was told the £1.47 million book advance was paid to Club Nook, the private company the couple set up in April 2020. Just £18,000 – £1 per copy from sales of the first book – went to charity.
In 2022, she and her husband refused a request from the Charity Commission to 'honor the commitment' made by Captain Tom in his foreword. They were asked twice to 'put things right by making a donation to charity', but declined both times.
The Commission produced a thirty-page report stating that Mrs Ingram Moore had been 'disingenuous' in her denial of personal benefit. She was paid £85,000 a year as CEO of the charity before stepping down.
The Ingram-Moores released a statement accusing the charity watchdog of a “predetermined agenda” and of “unfairly tarnishing” their name.
In August 2021, the Ingram-Moore's used the charity's name to apply for planning permission for an indoor swimming pool building in the grounds of the family's Grade II listed home.
Initially approved by Central Bedfordshire Council, largely due to its perceived charitable purposes, the family subsequently built a larger building with a swimming pool, spa, kitchen and toilets.
They removed references to Captain Tom in a retrospective application for the amended structure, later telling the Charity Commission inquiry that its original inclusion was 'an error' and that they had both been distracted because they were 'busy with global media work '.
They were later ordered to remove the complex, which was demolished in February 2023.
