Captain Sir Tom Moore: Charity stop donations and payments

The Captain Tom Moore Foundation said it was not taking donations oregon making payments portion an enquiry was ongoing.

In June past year, the Charity Commission began an enquiry into the instauration amid concerns his household whitethorn person profited from utilizing his name.

It has emerged Capt Sir Tom Moore's girl and hubby utilized the charity's sanction connected a readying exertion for a gathering aboriginal utilized arsenic a spa.

The instauration and Hannah Ingram-Moore person been contacted for comment.

The Army seasoned walked 100 laps of his Bedfordshire plot astatine the commencement of lockdown, raising £33m for NHS Charities Together.

Capt Sir Tom, who was calved successful Keighley successful West Yorkshire and died successful 2021 aged 100, carried retired the fundraising locomotion astatine his location erstwhile Covid restrictions were archetypal introduced successful 2020.

After helium became a nationalist figure, his household acceptable up a abstracted foundation successful his sanction called the Captain Tom Foundation.

In a connection connected the Captain Tom Moore Foundation website, the foundation said its "sole focus...is to guarantee that it cooperates afloat with the on-going statutory enquiry by the Charity Commission".

"As a result, The Captain Tom Foundation is not presently actively seeking immoderate backing from donors. Accordingly, we person besides taken the determination to adjacent each outgo channels whilst the statutory enquiry remains open," it said.

The connection said erstwhile the enquiry concludes it "will beryllium successful a amended presumption to marque a determination successful narration to its future".

When the enquiry was launched a twelvemonth ago, the Charity Commission said "concerns person mounted" implicit the foundation and independency from a concern tally by Capt Sir Tom's family.

It has emerged the Ingram-Moores requested readying support for a "Captain Tom Moore Building", which was "for usage by occupiers... and Captain Tom Foundation", according to documents submitted to Central Bedfordshire Council successful August 2021.

The section authorization granted support for the azygous storey operation to beryllium built connected the tennis courts astatine the Grade II listed home, as archetypal reported successful The Sun.

Then, successful February 2022, the household submitted revised plans for the already partially constructed building, which called it the "Captain Tom Moore Building".

The plans included a spa pool, toilets and a kitchen, which the Design & Access and Heritage Statement said was "for backstage use".

In November 2022, Central Bedfordshire Council refused the respective readying support for the revised plans.

The Captain Tom Moore Foundation did not respond to the BBC's petition for remark connected the readying application, but told The Sun the trustees were unaware and "would not person authorised" the plans had they known.