Capt Tom Moore’s daughter's company was paid for charity event

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Captain Sir Tom Moore's girl  Hannah Ingram-Moore during the authoritative  opening   of a caller   plot  astatine  the Helen and Douglas House children's hospice successful  Oxford.Image source, PA Media

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Hannah Ingram-Moore was the interim CEO of the Captain Tom Foundation erstwhile the lawsuit was held

By Joe Pike

Insight & Investigations Editor, Newsnight

The girl of Capt Sir Tom Moore was paid thousands of pounds via her household institution for appearances successful transportation with her precocious father's charity.

In 2021 and 2022, Hannah Ingram-Moore helped justice awards ceremonies which heavy featured the Captain Tom Foundation charity.

Promotional clips suggested she was determination to correspond the charity.

However her interest was paid not to the Foundation but to her household company. She is yet to respond to the claims.

The awards ceremonial was the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards, which included the sanction of the foundation and the charity's logo connected its awards plaques. At the clip Ms Ingram-Moore was its interim main enforcement connected an yearly wage of £85,000.

However her quality interest was paid not to the Captain Tom Foundation but to Maytrix Group, a institution owned by Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband, Colin.

'A full lie'

For much than a year, the Charity Commission has been investigating imaginable conflicts of involvement betwixt the foundation and the Ingram-Moores' businesses aft concerns mounted astir imaginable mismanagement and misconduct.

Replying to a BBC email astir this matter, Hannah Ingram-Moore said via email: "You are awful. It's a full lie."

Six minutes aboriginal she added: "Apologies. That reply was for a scammer who has been creating havoc".

Ms Ingram-Moore has not responded to a bid of questions from BBC Newsnight astir the 1000 of pounds that her institution received.

BBC Newsnight understands Ms Ingram-Moore did not question support from the charity's committee earlier entering into the commercialized statement with Virgin Media O2, and an interior probe into it was launched past November.

A spokesperson for the foundation trustees said: "The Captain Tom Foundation is alert of the commercialized arrangements made by Hannah Ingram-Moore with Virgin Media O2 successful respect of the 'Virgin Media Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards'.

"This substance is taxable of an ongoing interior investigation. The Charity Commission has been notified of the Foundation's reappraisal of this substance and the Foundation volition stock its findings erstwhile the probe has concluded."

Ms Ingram-Moore is nary longer moving the charity, but her hubby Colin remains a trustee. Both of them are directors of the companies Maytrix Group and Club Nook.

A Charity Commission spokesperson said: "Our enquiry into the Captain Tom Foundation remains ongoing. Its scope includes examining whether the trustees person adequately managed conflicts of interest, including with backstage companies connected to the Ingram-Moore family."

A Virgin Media spokesperson said: "When outgo was made, we were not alert of immoderate concerns astir Maytrix oregon the Captain Tom Foundation that person since travel to airy aft our run and narration with Captain Tom finished."

Capt Tom attracted planetary attraction during the archetypal coronavirus lockdown, by walking 100 laps of his plot up of his 100th birthday, to enactment the NHS.

Having raised astir £38m for NHS Charities Together, helium died successful aboriginal 2021 with Covid-19, little than six months aft being knighted.

Image source, Getty Images

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Capt Sir Tom won the nation's hearts with his fundraising walk, which took successful 100 laps of his garden

Family members past established the Foundation, but its fiscal activities person since travel nether scrutiny, with the Charity Commission announcing a reappraisal successful February 2022.

Concerns person been raised astir whether immoderate of the funds were going to abstracted companies tally by the family, the wage paid to Ms Ingram-Moore and however overmuch wealth was spent connected absorption costs.

Separately earlier this month, the household defended plans to physique an unauthorised spa that they person been told to demolish. An entreaty proceeding is owed to beryllium held connected 17 October.

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