CAPTAIN Tom Moore’s daughter’s businesses have lost tens of thousands in the last financial year – despite her confessing to pocketing £800,000 from her hero dad’s books and taking thousands more in government Covid cash.
In an exclusive interview with Piers Morgan on Talk TV, Hannah Ingram-Moore admitted that she took all the proceeds to the three books her father wrote before his death, as that is what he “specifically” wanted.
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Despite the public assuming the money was going to good causes, she said that the £800,000 went to her firm Club Nook Ltd, which was set up just four months before the first book Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography was published in September 2020.
Club Nook enjoyed a bumper 12 months in its first year raking in £484,790 profit, as during that time Captain Tom’s second book One Hundred Steps: The Story of Captain Tom Moore was also released in October 2020.
The following year, in April 2021, Captain Tom’s Life Lessons hit the shelves two months after his death at the age of 100.
But accounts obtained by The Sun reveal that the company’s fortunes dipped in 2022 and it lost £47,150 with reserves now standing at £437,640.
Club Nook paid £160,239 in corporation tax in 2021, but nothing in 2022 and had zero investments, which suggests the firm was set up solely for the proceeds of the books.
Hannah and husband Colin’s management consultancy firm Maytrix Group Ltd has also been under attack.
They have been criticised by the public for swathes of decisions, including Maytrix Group taking up to £100,000 in furlough money and £47,500 in Covid loans despite bumper profits in the pandemic.
The Captain Tom Moore Foundation accounts also reveal spending more on admin fees that it did on charity grants, including expenses taken by the Maytrix Group, and Hannah paying herself an £85,000-a-year pro rata salary as the interim charity CEO, which lasted three months.
The Maytrix Group’s latest accounts, which was released on 28 September, show that accumulated profit had fallen from £195,855 to £170,233, a drop of £25,622.
Despite all these hundreds of thousands being brought into the company on the back of the pandemic and Captain Tom’s success story, Club Nook and Maytrix Group profits dropped a total of £72,772 in the past financial year.
When asked about the money from the books by Piers Morgan, a tearful Ingram-Moore said: “These were my father’s books, and it was honestly such a joy for him to write them, but they were his books.
“He had an agent and they worked on that deal, and his wishes were that that money would sit in Club Nook, and in the end . . . ”
Piers then asks her, “For you to keep?”, and she incredibly replied “Yes… specifically.”
Hannah also spoke of her “regret” over the spa and pool complex she had built at her £1.2million home in her dad’s name, claiming to planners it was actually an office for the Captain Tom charity.
Speaking about how she managed the charity and its finances, she added: “I think it’s all very easy to look back and think I should have made different decisions, but I hadn’t planned on being the CEO.”
Last year, the Charity Commission last year launched an inquiry into the foundation amid concerns about consultancy fees and payments to Maytrix Group.
It concluded the payments were “reasonable reimbursement for expenses incurred by the companies in the formation of the charity”.
The Sun reached out to the Ingram-Moores for comment on their latest company accounts.
Captain Tom raised £39 million for the NHS with his pandemic walks and was knighted for his fundraising achievements.
He sadly died in February 2012 aged 100, after fighting off Covid.
Hannah gave an exclusive interview to Piers Morgan
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