Captain Tom’s daughter’s company has seen a massive financial drop

Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore has defended the way that her family has handled finances connected to her father’s legacy (Picture: PA)

A firm run by the daughter and son-in-law of Captain Sir Tom Moore had a fall in assets of more than £145,000 over the last financial year.  

Club Nook Ltd’s newly-published accounts show the drop amid continued controversy over the couple’s handling of Sir Tom’s fundraising legacy.

His daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore said at the end of 2023 that the late Army veteran had wanted profits from three books he wrote to be kept in the company, which is separate from the Captain Tom Foundation charity.

A Charity Commission investigation has been ongoing for more than a year in relation to issues with the foundation, including potential conflicts with businesses owned by Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband, Colin.

Having been used to hold the profits from the books after its incorporation in 2020, the net assets for Club Nook fell from £482,268 in 2021 to 2022 to £336,300 in the following financial year, according to the unaudited micro accounts at Companies House.

Hannah Ingram-Moore has said her father wanted his family to keep the profits from his books (Picture: Jacob King/PA Wire)

The balance sheet also shows a fall in the amount due to creditors, from £184,513 to £31,990 over the timeframe. Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband are the directors of Club Nook, which is registered to their home in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.  

The couple set up the private limited company after Captain Tom rose to fame with his record-breaking fundraising exploits, which began as he completed 100 circuits of their garden for his 100th birthday at the height of the Covid lockdown in 2020.  

As well as holding the assets — resources a company uses to generate future revenue —  Club Nook owns the trademarks to several variations of the ‘Captain Tom’ name. 

The national figurehead died in February 2021, after which his family continued a high-profile fundraising campaign in his memory.

Captain Sir Tom Moore captured the nation’s imagination as he achieved his goal of 100 laps of his garden (Picture: Joe Giddens/PA Wire)

Speaking to Piers Morgan on TalkTV in October, Ms Ingram-Moore said £800,000 in profits from the Second World War veteran’s books were kept by his family because it was ‘what he wanted’.  

She said: ‘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… ’

The host then asked ‘for you to keep?’ to which Ms Ingram-Moore replied: ‘Yes. Specifically.’ She also said that there was no suggestion that anyone buying the books thought they were donating to charity. 

The couple has also been embroiled in a saga concerning a planning application for a spa pool block at their home.

They lost an appeal against an order from Central Bedfordshire Council to remove the Captain Tom Foundation Building, with an inspector ruling that it must be demolished by February 7.

In the conversation with Morgan, Ms Ingram-Moore denied the family had sought to give themselves ‘a little treat’, claiming the paperwork was filed after her father’s death ‘because we wanted it as part of that legacy, and because it was a nice thing to do’.

She said the building had been constructed with ‘all personal money’ and ‘not one penny’ from the foundation. 

In relation to the links between the businesses and the foundation, Ms Ingram-Moore has previously admitted that ‘we’ve been incredibly naive’ but insisted the family are ‘wholesome, good people and we run businesses we understand’. 

Metro.co.uk has approached the Captain Tom Foundation for comment.

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Club Nook was used to hold the £800,000 profits from Captain Tom’s three books.