EXCLUSIVE: Captain Tom’s daughter’s firms misplaced practically £100,000

Captain Tom’s daughter’s firms have seen their funds plummet by practically £100,000 because the row continues to rumble on over her swimming pool – however she is unlikely to be left ravenous as they’re nonetheless value £648,000.

Hannah Ingram-Moore, 53, is registered as director of 5 separate lively firms which had a complete of £658,457 shareholders funds of their final accounting interval.

This was down £97,213 from the yr earlier than – when the companies massed a surprising £745,670.

The controversial daughter of lockdown hero Captain Tom can be the previous director of an extra 5 firms – three of which have been dissolved or she has resigned from in since 2020.

Her husband Colin, 66, is an extra a part of Granite Investors SPE II LLP – an Aberdeen partnership value greater than £1.3million whose 26 officers additionally embody Sir Alex Ferguson.

It comes as anger in the direction of the mother-of-two continues after she was ordered to demolish an unauthorised spa pool complicated in her backyard.

Ms Ingram-Moore utilized in 2021 for permission for an L-shaped constructing, which was accepted, however council officers later rejected a retrospective utility in 2022 for the totally different formed spa.

The Captain Tom Foundation constructing was given an enforcement discover in July by Central Bedfordshire Council that it must be demolished because it was a ‘non-unauthorised’ constructing.

Officials have now dismissed an attraction in opposition to its demolition, with inspector Diane Fleming saying the ‘scale and massing’ of the brand new constructing – which has not been completed – ‘resulted in hurt’ to The Old Rectory, the Grade II-listed household dwelling.

The most notable loss amongst Ms Ingram-Moore’s fleet of companies is Whitaker Global – which misplaced greater than two thirds of its worth within the final yr.

According to accounts filed with Companies House in late October, the agency’s shareholders’ funds had been slashed from £54,591 in 2022 to only £16,460 this yr.

No one has been employed by the corporate for 2 years, whereas a £3,000 financial institution mortgage has been taken out.

It is alleged to supply ‘administration consultancy actions aside from monetary administration’.

Set up with Captain Tom as director in 2015, it was initially referred to as Ibrutum Ltd, and though it utilized to be dissolved in 2019 this was discontinued simply 20 days later.

The enterprise – which Ms Ingram-Moore joined in 2016, taking on from her hero father – had reserves of £148,691 at its excessive level in 2017, that means the corporate has been lowered to only a tenth of its earlier worth.

A second firm, Maytrix Group Limited, has seen its shareholders funds lowered from £195,955 in 2021 to £170,333 in 2022.

A lack of greater than £25,000, it exhibits plunge of practically 15 per cent in a single yr for the enterprise co-directed by Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband.

The firm works to assist companies optimise their operations and speed up their enterprise progress – and nonetheless lists an award given to Captain Sir Tom Moore for his heroics as theirs months after it was uncovered by MailOnline.

A 3rd firm – referred to as Maytrix People Limited – seems to have been placed on ice for one more yr, with figures for 2022 and 2021 each displaying as £100.

And the controversial Club Nook firm – which was on the centre of a probe by the Charity Commission into The Captain Tom Foundation – has seen its earnings drop off by practically £50,000 within the final yr. 

Club Nook Ltd was registered by Mrs Ingram-Moore in April 2020, lower than two weeks earlier than the Captain Tom Foundation was integrated. It owns various trademark-registered names for merchandise together with beer, spirits, greeting playing cards, lunch containers and water bottles. 

The firm made £809,000 in its first yr, and after collectors had been paid it was left with slightly below £500,000. 

In 2021, Club Nook registered £484,894 in shareholders funds, which dropped to £437,744 within the following yr – a fall of practically 10 per cent.

Only one firm the Ingram-Moores are administrators in has made a revenue – with CTV (2020) Limited, of which Ms Ingram-Moore is registered because the industrial director alongside her husband as firm director, bringing in £23,820 in 2022.

This was greater than double the £10,130 it had in capital and reserves in 2021 – its first registered determine after the corporate was began in October 2020.

The amount of money raked in by Captain Moore’s household off the again of his £39million fundraising legacy was laid naked final month – amid rising requires them to offer it again. 

Hannah Ingram-Moore confessed and broke down in tears in an interview with Piers Morgan after admitting conserving £800k from earnings of his books.

The broadcaster declared that holding on to the cash was ‘deeply unethical and a betrayal’ of her father’s legacy.

But Ms Ingram-Moore informed TalkTV that Sir Tom wished them to get the earnings from his three books.

However, the prologue of his autobiography calls this declare into query and suggests the veteran thought his books had been simply one other means for him to lift money for good causes.

Crying, she informed Mr Morgan: ‘These had been my father’s books, and it was truthfully such a pleasure for him to put in writing them, however they had been his books.

‘He had an agent and so they labored on that deal, and his needs had been…’ Mr Morgan interjected: ‘For you to maintain?’, and she or he responded: ‘Yes. Specifically’.

In an emotionally-charged interview Ms Ingram-Moore’s household recommended she had been suicidal and so they had suffered dying threats.

But following their admissions, the Sir Captain Tom Moore Twitter account was inundated with messages from individuals who donated, demanding the household give the money again.

Ms Ingram-Moore’s husband Colin informed Mr Morgan: ‘We ought to have executed it otherwise’ – however the household has to this point refused to return any money.

Ms Ingram-Moore additionally broke her silence on the £85,000 wage she earned as interim CEO of the Captain Tom Foundation. She additionally obtained £7,602 in expense funds for journey and administration between June 2021 and November 2022.

She additional admitted she was paid £18,000 for attending the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards in 2021 – when already being paid as chief govt of the physique.

The cash was paid to her household agency, Maytrix Group, and she or he banked £16,000, donating simply £2,000 to the Captain Tom Foundation.

Maytrix Group has already been pilloried for taking as much as £100,000 in furlough money and £47,500 in Covid loans through the pandemic.

The household additionally opened up about their remorse over constructing a controversial spa and pool complicated at their mansion – however confessed that they’re hoping to win an attraction to maintain it however. 

The planning utility for Ms Ingram-Moore’s annexe indicated it might be used as workplace house for the Captain Tom Foundation.

The household had additionally claimed the constructing can be used for espresso mornings and rehabilitation classes for native aged individuals. It was additionally believed it might be a neighborhood house to retailer hundreds of playing cards and items despatched by admirers.

Council planners say the brand new constructing was not what was meant and have ordered the couple to tug it down, issuing a ‘now unauthorised constructing’ discover.

Richard Procter, the Principal Planning Enforcement Officer at Central Beds Council stated the unique constructing was accepted due to the steadiness of public profit outweighed the hurt.

He went on: ‘The scheme was for storing the playing cards. There has been no data given to the council about the usage of the spa. ‘

Scott Stemp, the barrister representing the Ingram-Moore household stated the previous tennis courtroom had fallen in disrepair. He stated the intention needed to be retailer a choice of memorabilia and related gadgets – to not retailer all of the memorabilia.

He stated the constructing was unfinished and had not be cladded as work stopped due to the council’s enforcement order. 

The couple used the title of the Captain Tom Foundation when the plans had been first lodged. Permission to go forward was granted in August 2021, however the charity stated it had no data of the proposal.

They say the constructing which is estimated to have value £200,000, was paid for with their very own cash.

Asked by the inspector how a lot of the constructing can be used for the household’s charitable work in reference to Captain Sir Moore, Mr Stemp stated it was within the area of a two-thirds, one-thirds cut up. The plan is to permit teams to come back and have older individuals to get individuals to speak to one another, he stated.

On behalf of the Ingram-Moores, James Paynter, a surveyor, stated the constructing can be used for a espresso morning setting. ‘The household wish to get individuals to speak to one another.’

He stated the scheme had advanced to incorporate the spa. ‘The spa pool has the chance to supply rehabilitation classes for aged individuals within the space. They wish to supply one to at least one session, on a a couple of times per week foundation.’