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data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/charity\/\">charities<\/a> by walking laps around is <a data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/bedfordshire\/\">Bedfordshire<\/a> home.<\/p>\n<p>Off the back of his soaring popularity, his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband launched their own charity – the Captain Tom Foundation. <\/p>\n<p>But they repeatedly blurred ‘boundaries between private and charitable interests\u2019, and received ‘significant personal benefit’ themselves, according to<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/11\/21\/captain-toms-family-made-1-000-000-ties-charity-name-22032807\/?ico=more_text_links\"> a recent Charity Commission investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the concerns raised was a \u00a31.47million advance paid to the couple’s company, Club Nook, for three Captain Tom books.<\/p>\n<p>Statements at the time implied at least some of the money benefit the charity.<\/p>\n<p>But ‘to date the charity has not received any money from the first publishing agreement’, something that the public \u2018would understandably feel misled\u2019 to learn, the 30-page report said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"485\" src=\"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_179131450-a47d.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22678331\" alt=\"99 year old retired British Army Captain Tom Moore photographed in the garden of his home near Milton Keynes with daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore. Tom has raised over ?12 Million for the NHS by attempting to walk the length of his garden 100 times before his 100th birthday this month. Captain Tom Moore photoshoot, Milton Keynes, UK - 16 Apr 2020Mandatory Credit: Photo by John Lawrence\/REX\/Shutterstock (10628395c)\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Captain Tom walked the length of his garden 100 times before his 100th birthday during the Covid-19 pandemic (Picture: John Lawrence\/REX\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ms Ingram-Moore told the BBC she’s sorry if they do feel that way, but she’s not taking responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>She said: ‘I’m sorry they feel misled. I genuinely am. But there was never any intent to mislead, and if there was any misleading, it wasn’t our doing.’<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether they would comply with the Charity Commission’s request that they make a donation to charity, she said claimed they already had.<\/p>\n<p>But she refused to reveal how much of the book advance had gone to the Captain Tom Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram-Moore said: ‘I don’t think it’s helpful now for me to put another number out, because that’s the number everyone will talk about.<\/p>\n<p>‘There is nothing dishonest about what happened. The book said, it said it would support the launch, and it did.’<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"430\" src=\"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_190181358-0526.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22678323\" alt=\"Work continues to demolish an unauthorised spa pool block at the home of Hannah Ingram-Moore, the daughter of the late Captain Sir Tom Moore, at Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire. Picture date: Monday February 5, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCIAL CaptainTom. Photo credit should read: Jacob King\/PA Wire\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>The family built a spa in a building intended to be the charity’s storage for cards sent to Captain Tom (Picture: Jacob King\/PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last year the family was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/02\/05\/now-bulldozers-roll-captain-toms-daughters-spa-ahead-demolition-deadline-20225541\/\">demolish an unauthorised spa<\/a> complex next to their Marston Moretaine home, which they have since <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/10\/09\/captain-toms-daughter-removes-listing-2-250-000-home-prying-eyes-21763222\/\">tried to sell for more than \u00a32million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They had been given permission to make a Captain Tom Foundation building in their garden to store cards and gifts sent by admirers.<\/p>\n<p>Planning permission had initially been granted for an L-shaped building in the grounds of the family home.<\/p>\n<p>The planning authority refused a second application in 2022 for a larger C-shaped building containing a spa pool. But construction went ahead anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Ingram-Moore told the BBC setting up the charity ‘completely derailed our lives’.<\/p>\n<p>She said: ‘It was set up with my father’s name and that is our deepest regret.’<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:webnews@metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{“@context”:”https:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”VideoObject”,”name”:”Metro.co.uk”,”duration”:”T46S”,”thumbnailUrl”:”https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/06\/09\/95902735-0-image-a-16_1741254042066.jpg”,”uploadDate”:”2025-03-06T09:40:30+0000″,”description”:”Hannah Ingram-Moore, the daughter of Captain Sir Tom Moore, believes the family did ‘nothing dishonest’.”,”contentUrl”:”https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2025\/03\/06\/7984252639536500260\/480x270_MP4_7984252639536500260.mp4″,”height”:270,”width”:480} To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/captain-toms-daughter-finally-apologises-kind-of\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Captain Tom\u2019s daughter finally apologises (kind of)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions\/2998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}