Accounts revealed the value of Hannah Ingram-Moore’s firm, Club Nook, had plummeted to just £149 over the past year – down from more than £330,000 in the previous 12 months
Captain Sir Tom Moore’s family today faced a fresh blow after accounts showed his daughter’s company had suffered financial collapse.
Hannah Ingram-Moore’s firm, Club Nook, has seen the value of its assets plummet to just £149 over the last year – down from £336,300 in the previous 12 months. The company, run by Mrs Ingram-Moore, 53, and husband Colin, 66, was intended to manage lockdown hero Capt Tom’s commercial interests and intellectual property.
But accounts to April 2024 show the company owes creditors £67,000. Its liabilities are recorded as standing at £19,246 net, where in the year to April 2023 they stood at £106,104 in the black. It is the latest humiliation for the family – forced to slash £250,000 from the price of their country mansion – after they faced criticism by watchdogs for their handling of Capt Tom’s charity funds.
Mrs Ingram Moore previously admitted that £800,000 worth of profits from Capt Tom’s three books had been paid into Club Nook (
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In 2023, Hannah admitted that £800,000 worth of profits from Capt Tom’s three books had been paid into Club Nook. In a TV interview, she claimed her father wanted his family to keep the profits from Captain Tom’s Life Lessons, One Hundred Steps and Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day and insisted readers were never told the money would go to charity.
But this was called into question by the prologue of the third book, an autobiography, which suggests the veteran thought his books were just another way for him to fundraise. The extract read: “Astonishingly at my age, with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name.”
The latest accounts come just days after the Mirror revealed the family had been forced to slash £250,000 off the price of their country mansion and wipe any mention of his name from an online listing. Capt Tom’s family had tried to shift the sprawling seven-bed mansion for a whopping £2.25m using his name last year.
Capt Tom was knighted after he raised nearly £39m for charity during the pandemic by walking 100 lengths of his garden ahead of his 100th birthday in April 2020 (
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They strategically placed a photo of Capt Tom being knighted by the late Queen in 2020 in an online listing. And a bust recreating the moment he finished his multi-million pound fundraising walk during the pandemic was also seen in a snap of the main hallway.
But they pulled the property off the open market amid a backlash at their handling of the charity set up in his name. Now the property in Marston Moretaine, Beds, is back up for grabs for offers in excess of £2million – with no sign of Capt Tom in any of the images.
An online listing makes no mention of the veteran’s charity heroics and does not name his daughter or her husband. It simply states: “The vendors have owned the property for 18 years and have undertaken a comprehensive programme of improvement and renovation.”
In November the couple were criticised by a watchdog for pocketing more than £1million in his name. They gained significant financial benefit from links to a charity – the Captain Tom Foundation – that they set up in 2020, a report said.
The Charity Commission said its probe into the foundation uncovered “repeated failures of governance and integrity”. Second World War veteran Capt Tom raised nearly £39m for charity during the pandemic by walking 100 lengths of his garden ahead of his 100th birthday in April 2020.
He was knighted months later and died aged 100 in 2021. The Charity Commission’s statutory inquiry found the Ingram-Moores’ “misconduct and/ or mismanagement [was a] repeated pattern of behaviour”. It added sales of Capt Tom’s autobiography Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day did not benefit the Captain Tom Foundation.
In the prologue he wrote of being given “the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation established in my name”. But an advance of £1.4m for the three-book deal was paid to Club Nook, which the Ingram-Moores are directors of.
The commission said the charity “hasn’t received any money from the first publishing agreement”. It added the public “would feel misled” to learn the charity did not benefit from sales. In 2023 Mrs Ingram-Moore admitted keeping the profits from the books for themselves and said there was no agreement with her dad the book money would go to charity.
The commission said there is evidence Mrs Ingram-Moore set out expectations for a £150,000 salary before becoming the charity’s chief. The watchdog criticised the pair for using the foundation’s name in a planning application for a spa pool block at their Bedfordshire home. The couple said it was an error they blamed on being busy.
The report said that when giving permission for the building, planners gave significant weight to the pledge that it was to be used for charitable purposes. The council later ordered the family to demolish it. The Ingram-Moores, now barred from being charity trustees, argued it was a breach of privacy for the book deal to have been disclosed.
In a statement they added they felt “unfairly and unjustly” treated and accused the commission of “selective storytelling”. They said the inquiry had taken a “serious toll on our family ‘mental and physical health, unfairly tarnishing our name and affecting our ability to carry on Captain Sir Tom’s legacy”.