Captain Sir Tom Moore: NHS charity stresses £38m is not under investigation

The £38m raised by Captain Sir Tom Moore erstwhile helium walked 100 laps of his Bedfordshire plot is "not nether investigation", the foundation which received it has said.

NHS Charities Together said wealth it received for its Covid-19 Urgent Appeal had "funded thousands of projects".

It said the Captain Tom Foundation, acceptable up aft his death, is simply a "completely abstracted organisation" to it.

Capt Sir Tom, who was calved successful Keighley, West Yorkshire, died successful 2021 aged 100.

He became an planetary figure, during the commencement of the archetypal coronavirus lockdown successful 2020, for his fundraising walks successful the grounds of his household location successful Marston Moretaine.

After helium died, his household acceptable up the Captain Tom Foundation, which is nary longer taking donations oregon making payments owed to a Charity Commission inquiry, which started a twelvemonth ago.

Announcing the probe, the committee said "concerns person mounted" implicit the foundation and independency from a concern tally by Capt Sir Tom's family.

An NHS Charities Together spokesperson said: "The Captain Tom Foundation is simply a wholly abstracted organisation that was established aft Captain Tom did his fundraising for our Covid-19 Urgent Appeal, and the Charity Commission has made wide that the £38m helium raised for NHS Charities Together is not nether investigation."

A connection added that its Covid entreaty raised much than £160m from thousands of supporters which had been "distributed crossed the web of NHS charities to scope each NHS Trust and Health Board successful the UK".

"It has funded thousands of projects and provided captious intelligence wellness enactment for NHS staff, grooming for exigency volunteers, instrumentality and enactment for patients, and assemblage concern programmes to forestall sick wellness and trim unit connected NHS services," the connection said.

"The enactment we proceed to supply has ne'er been much vital, and we are thankful to everyone who helps marque it possible."

A Covid entreaty advancement study connected its website "demonstrates the quality donations" are making, the foundation said.

Recently, the youngest of his 2 daughters, Hannah Ingram-Moore, who lived with Capt Sir Tom, has been told to sound down an unauthorised building utilized arsenic a spa aft a readying exertion that utilized the charity's sanction was rejected.

She and her hubby utilized the sanction connected the archetypal plans for the building, with retrospective readying support for aboriginal revised plans turned down.

Neither The Captain Tom Moore Foundation not Ms Ingram-Moore person responded to the BBC's petition for remark connected the readying application.