Captain Tom Moore’s disgraced daughter is set to release a book about coping with the death of her late father.
Hannah Ingram-Moore, 54, is set to self-publish her book ‘Grief: Public Face, Private Loss’ this week, it is understood.
Mrs Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin have been the subject of huge controversy over their handling of funds from the Captain Tom Foundation charity as well as their last book deal which was supposed to help raise money for the foundation.
Captain Tom stole the hearts of the nation when he walked 100 laps of his garden in Bedfordshire to raise money for the NHS while marking his 100th birthday in 2020.
Almost £39 million was raised for NHS Covid charities and he was knighted by the Queen in July 2020.
Later that year his memoir, Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day was published. He wrote in the prologue that it was ‘a chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name.’
However following his death in 2021 it emerged that his daughter her husband had pocketed the £1.5million publishing advance from the book, leaving nothing for charity.
The couple were also later ordered to demolish a luxury spa that the couple had built in the grounds of their own home, under the guise it was for the foundation.
Mrs Ingram-Moore is said to be planning to step back into the public eye to promote her book.
A soucre told The Sun: ‘It appears to be another attempt to cash in.
‘While the book does not use his name, it seems it will feature his death and give tips to the public on how to cope with grief.
‘Hannah is totally shameless and still doesn’t think she has done much wrong.
A critical report published by the Charity Commission in November last year found that the Ingram-Moores benefited ‘significantly’ through their association with the high-profile Captain Tom Foundation and were guilty of ‘serious and repeated’ instances of misconduct, mismanagement and failures of integrity – among them the book deal.
The public had been ‘misled’, said the damning report, when buying items they thought would benefit the Captain Tom Foundation, which was set up in May 2020 to carry on raising money for charity after the success of his sponsored walk.
Questions were first raised in February 2022 when it was reported that £240,000 of the charity’s £400,000 expenditure went on fundraising and admin costs and £50,000 of ‘reimbursed expenditure’ was paid to companies controlled by the Ingram-Moores.
The Charity Commission was told that the £1.47 million book advance was paid to Club Nook, the private company set up by the couple in April 2020. Only £18,000 – £1 a copy from sales of the first book – went to the charity.
Accounts for Club Nook filed with Companies House showed that their financial fortunes had also collapsed. It has net current assets of just £149. The previous year this figure stood at £336,300.
Meanwhile, in accounts to April 2024, 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.
In 2022, she and her husband refused a request by the Charity Commission to ‘honour the commitment’ made by Captain Tom in his foreword. They were twice asked to ‘rectify matters by making a donation to the charity’ but declined both times.
The Commission produced a 30 page report said that Mrs Ingram Moore had been ‘disingenuous’ in her denials of personal benefit. She was paid £85,000 a year as CEO of the charity before stepping down.
The Ingram-Moores released a statement accusing the charity watchdog of a ‘predetermined agenda’ and of ‘unfairly tarnishing’ their name.
The Ingram-Moores further sparked fury when in August 2021 they used the charity’s name to apply for planning permission for an indoor swimming pool building in the grounds of the family’s Grade II-listed home.
Initially approved by Central Bedfordshire council, largely because of its supposed charitable purposes, the family went on to build a larger structure, containing a pool, spa, kitchen and toilets.
They removed references to Captain Tom in a retrospective application for the changed structure, later telling the Charity Commission inquiry that its original inclusion was ‘an error’ and that they were both distracted because they were ‘busy undertaking global media work’.
They were later ordered to remove the complex, which was demolished in February 2023.
They spent several days removing the roof tiles one at a time and have been spotted taking gym equipment and other items out of the building.
A gaping hole was left in the ground of the spa complex over the weekend after a crane removed the spa swimming pool.