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Captain Tom’s daughter is back in the headlines again as her company Club Nook Ltd see a huge financial drop in assets in newly published accounts which show a £145,000 drop in assets. The companies balance sheet also showed a drop in the amount it owed to creditors, from £184,513 to £31,990 over the timeframe.

It all comes as Captain Tom’s daughter and her husband continue to face questions over their handling of money raised by the Captain Tom’s Foundation, including income from a book written by Captain Tom called ‘Tomorrow will be a Good Day’, which he said he had written to “raise money” for the Captain Tom Foundation.

Rebutted by Hannah Ingram-Moore’s claims that there was no agreement that money from the sales of the book which is estimated to be around £800,000 would go to the foundation.

The scandal has caused controversy over the couples handling of the Captain Tom Foundation and the legacy of Sir Captain Tom Moore who was knighted for his stellar fundraising for the NHS during COVID. 

Hannah Moore has continued to claim that the profits from the book, along with two others written by Sir Captain Moore who sadly died back in February 2021 was by the wishes of her late father to be kept by the family and not donated to the foundation.

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.

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. 

After national figurehead died in February 2021, his family continued a high profile fundraising campaign in his memory.

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 7th February 2024.

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’. 

Military News Today has approached the Captain Tom Foundation for comment, but we have had no response.