Capt Tom charity is our deepest regret - daughter

The girl of pandemic fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore has said she profoundly regrets a foundation being acceptable up successful his name.

Hannah Ingram-Moore admitted the determination astir "derailed" the family's beingness but claimed "nothing dishonest" happened.

World War Two seasoned Capt Sir Tom became a household sanction during the archetypal Covid-19 lockdown, raising £38.9m for NHS charities aft walking up and down his driveway successful Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.

Mrs Ingram-Moore and her hubby became directors of the Captain Tom Foundation, but the Charity Commission has since said they misled the nationalist by benefitting personally from the charity.

The authorities regulator said the household refused to donate immoderate of the £1.47m received for 3 Capt Sir Tom books, contempt assurances that portion of it would beryllium passed to the charity.

The erstwhile concern advisor maintained to the BBC that her begetter wanted the household to payment from the deal.

In a lengthy interrogation with Justin Dealey for BBC Three Counties Radio, she was questioned astir the series of events pursuing her father's celebrated foundation locomotion and the enactment of the foundation successful his honour.

She said: "It didn't request to beryllium acceptable up arsenic a charity, we could person continued that bequest without it, due to the fact that what it's done is each but wholly derailed our lives.

"It was acceptable up with my father's sanction and that is our deepest regret."

Capt Sir Tom raised £38.9m for NHS Charities Together successful 2020. This wealth did not signifier portion of the Charity Commission inquiry.

The instauration was subsequently acceptable up and Mrs Ingram-Moore and her hubby became directors.

Grants of £160,000 were fixed to 4 charities by the instauration successful its archetypal year, but it paid much than £162,000 successful absorption costs successful the aforesaid period.

The Charity Commission took contented with the publication statement and £28,000 that Mrs Ingram-Moore was paid for deals with Virgin Media.

It besides criticised the mates for not consulting trustees astir a spa complex built astatine their home.

Investigators said successful November that she and her hubby displayed a "pattern of behaviour" successful which they benefited personally, and the nationalist would "understandably consciousness misled".

Mrs Ingram-Moore disputed the study but said it would person taken excessively overmuch clip and wealth to contention the findings.

"We gracefully bowed retired and said we'll person to judge what they say, adjacent though we cognize it not to beryllium existent and get connected with our lives," she said.

The committee concluded the family's actions did not correspond transgression behaviour and it did not walk immoderate findings to the police.

The steadfast Penguin and promoter Carver PR said the household gave repeated assurances that portion of the publication woody beforehand would beryllium utilized to acceptable up and money the foundation.

A property release, selling materials and the prologue of Capt Sir Tom's memoir, each stated that the books would beryllium utilized to enactment oregon rise wealth for the foundation.

Mrs Ingram-Moore insisted her household did not constitute the selling worldly and her father, who she claimed signed the woody with Penguin Random House done his agent, wanted the currency to spell to the family.

She said: "He was of precise dependable caput - helium wanted america to payment and helium chose wherever to enactment it. It was his money," she said.

"He wanted to guarantee that we lived well, that we had aboriginal income, due to the fact that helium could spot that Covid had been rather devastating to our business."

The steadfast quality this mentation of events and told the BBC the archetypal publishing statement was signed by Mrs Ingram-Moore connected behalf of Club Nook, a backstage steadfast acceptable up by the Ingram-Moores, and Captain Tom.

Mrs Ingram-Moore besides claimed wording successful the book's prologue was specified to them by lawyers from Penguin.

However the steadfast said the wording was successful the archetypal unedited archetypal instalment of the draught manuscript delivered to Penguin connected 22 June 2020.

Mrs Ingram-Moore said that aft fees were taken into account, the household received £800,000 from the publication woody - astir of which was spent connected ineligible costs.

She insisted immoderate of that outgo went to charity, but declined to accidental however overmuch erstwhile pushed for a figure.

"There is thing dishonest astir what happened," she insisted.

Experienced foundation nonrecreational Jack Gilbert was main enforcement of the foundation, and helium told the BBC helium was "gobsmacked" by questionable practices helium uncovered.

On aggregate occasions the presenter invited Ms Ingram-Moore to apologise to members of the nationalist who felt misled but she was adamant she had done thing wrong.

She said: "The publication said it would enactment the motorboat [of the foundation] and it did. There was ne'er a circumstantial magnitude of wealth required."

During the interrogation Mrs Ingram-Moore spoke of enactment she had received from radical wherever she lives successful Marston Mortaine but was past played audio of her neighbours telling the BBC they had felt "duped" and that they wanted an apology.

She insisted she had fulfilled immoderate obligations she had from the publication woody and it was not a foundation book.

"I'm atrocious they consciousness misled, I genuinely am, but determination was ne'er immoderate intent to mislead. If determination was immoderate misleading it wasn't our doing," she said erstwhile pushed again.

When it was pointed retired that the publication and the foundation were launched connected the aforesaid time and that could beryllium confusing she justified it arsenic a mode to payment the charity.

"None of that needed to hap connected the aforesaid day. It was done purposefully due to the fact that everyone thought it would springiness the foundation a immense boost to get radical there."

Charity Commission main enforcement David Holdsworth urged the Ingram-Moores to "follow through" and "donate a important magnitude to the charity".

Mrs Ingram-Moore refuted that much wealth was owed erstwhile asked if she would beryllium giving immoderate much money.

"That's conscionable a mode to effort and reverse technologist the information they privation to america to beryllium blameworthy of something," she said.

"They cognize perfectly that each the obligations, that were made, were fulfilled successful galore ways and with important amounts of money.

"They didn't inquire my father, that's my point. There was a twelvemonth successful which they could person said to him: 'Oh, Capt Tom we thought overmuch much wealth was coming'."

Capt Sir Tom died successful February 2021 aged 100, with coronavirus.

He go sick not agelong aft his household took him connected vacation to Barbados.

She said she disquieted that the nationalist wrongly assumed the £38.9m raised for NHS charities was tampered with.

"For anyone who thinks that determination was immoderate question that we could person touched it: Number one, we could not have. And fig two, we would not have. And fig three, we did not."

Mrs Ingram-Moore is owed to merchandise a self-published publication this twelvemonth entitled Grief: Public Face, Private Loss.

She plans a 2nd publication astir resilience, and past an autobiography successful 2026.

Business clients nary longer wanted to enactment with her, she said, forcing her to prosecute a caller vocation arsenic an author.

"Here I americium arsenic a pistillate who's worked predominantly successful male-dominated businesses each my beingness successfully - present cipher thinks that that's worthy anything," she said.

"It's devastating."

Asked what her begetter would person thought of what has happened to her household since his death, Mrs Ingram-Moore said: "He would person mislaid religion successful humanity.

"He would consciousness that it was truthful unjust. He would beryllium devastated for us."

In July 2023, the Captain Tom Foundation announced it was not actively seeking donations oregon making payments.

This year, it changed its sanction to the 1189808 Foundation.

In a connection released connected Wednesday, the Charity Commission said: "Our rigorous probe recovered repeated instances wherever Hannah and Colin Ingram-Moore's actions blurred the boundaries betwixt their backstage interests and those of the charity.

"We basal by the findings of our inquiry, which are based connected robust evidence."