Captain Tom Moore’s daughter claims there was ‘nothing dishonest’ about the charity set up in her father’s name.
Last year, a damning Charity Commission inquiry accused Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband of “repeatedly” benefitting from the Captain Tom Moore Foundation they were both running.
One of the most controversial findings in the report was that the the family refused to donate any of the £1.47m received for three Capt Sir Tom books, despite assurances that part of it would be passed to the charity.
Speaking to the BBC on Thursday, Ms Ingham-Moore apologised if people felt misled but maintained that the book money was always meant to remain in the family.
“There is nothing dishonest about what happened," she told the outlet, adding that some of the funding helped launch the foundation.
"The book said it would support the launch [of the foundation] and it did. There was never a specific amount of money required.
"I'm sorry they feel misled, I genuinely am, but there was never any intent to mislead. If there was any misleading it wasn't our doing," she continued.
Ms Ingham-Moore’s father found instant fame during the Covid-19 pandemic when he walked 100 laps of his garden and raised a whopping £38 million for NHS charities.
He died in 2021 at the age of 100, but his legacy continued to live on through his charitable work and the Captain Tom Moore Foundation.
However, Captain Tom’s daughter has been caught up in a storm of controversy over her handling of the charitable organisation and its profits.
The Charity Commission concluded that the couple misled the public by benefitting personally from the charity, but the couple said that the commission had been unfairly harsh on her family.
In early 2025, the family decided to drop Captain Tom’s name from the charity, instead renaming it the 1189808 Foundation, after its charity number.
Elsewhere, Ms Ingram-Moore has also seemingly sought to distance herself from her father’s legacy, even removing his name from the listing of her £2.5m house sale.
Reflecting on the fallout of the inquiry, Ms Ingram-Moore also told the BBC that the events of the last few years had ‘derailed’ her family’s life.
"It didn't need to be set up as a charity, we could have continued that legacy without it, because what it's done is all but completely derailed our lives,” she added. "It was set up with my father's name and that is our deepest regret."
