March 2020
Captain Sir Tom Moore captured the hearts of the nation and raised almost £39 million for NHS charities by walking around his garden 100 times using a walking frame.
April 2020
Captain Tom teamed up with legendary singer Michael Ball and the NHS Voices of Care Choir to record a rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone – the hit made famous by Gerry and the Pacemakers and adopted by Liverpool FC.
His version of the hit went to number one on the Official Big Top Top 40 chart.
More than 100,000 birthday cards were sent for its 100th birthday on April 30, when Great Western Railway named one of its new trains after its captain and a special Battle of Britain flypast was organized to mark the special day.
July 2020
Captain Tom was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II during a special private ceremony at Windsor Castle.
When was the Captain Tom Foundation established?
September 2020
The Captain Tom Foundation was founded, inspired by the memory of his late wife Pamela, who died in 2006 after a battle with dementia.
The foundation aims to fight loneliness and support people who are suffering.
Hannah Ingram-Moore said her father wanted her to make a profit from his three books. Image: Captain Sir Tom Moore poses for photographers to promote the launch of his book ‘Tomorrow is a Good Day’ at his home in Bedfordshire, Britain, 17 September 2020
New Year 2020
The silhouette of Captain Tom’s drone is seen at the annual firework display in London for New Year’s Eve.
February 2021
Captain Sir Tom Moore has died aged 100 after testing positive for Covid-19 and suffering from pneumonia. His funeral took place in Bedfordshire.
August 2021
Hannah Ingram-Moore, and her husband, Colin, have applied for permission to build the Captain Tom Foundation Building in the grounds of their £1.2 million home in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.
Hannah and Colin made an application to build an L-shaped building next to the property that was previously later to add a 50ft by 20ft pool house complete with changing rooms, showers and toilets, according to planning documents.
September 2021
The family of Captain Sir Tom Moore launched an illustrated children’s book – titled One Hundred Reasons for Hope – to praise the achievements of an inspirational man during the pandemic.
What does Captain Tom’s daughter do?
February 2022
Captain Tom’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore said she could still feel her father’s presence ‘in everything’ around her, as the family marked the former Army officer’s first birthday.
The family became embroiled in controversy for the first time, after charity watchdog the Charity Commission announced it was investigating the Captain Tom Foundation over concerns about its accounts and governance.
The investigation comes after the charity paid more than £50,000 to a company run by Mrs Ingram-Moore and her husband, Colin.
Both were appointed trustees of the charity in February 2021, but Mrs Ingram-Moore resigned just six weeks later, while Colin remained as one of three trustees.
March 2022
The daughter of Captain Sir Tom Moore who defended the charity set-up on ITV’s This Morning, denied reports that the charity set up in honor of her late father had at one stage planned to appoint a chief executive on a six-figure salary.
June 2022
The Charity Commission opened an investigation into the foundation after identifying new ‘concerns’ about the involvement of Captain Tom’s family in the charity.
It said it would investigate charitable payments to companies linked to Mrs Ingram-Moore and her husband’s company, in a statutory inquiry focused on the foundation’s independence from the family.
July 2023
The Captain Tom Foundation has stopped taking donations amid an investigation into its finances by the charity watchdog.
Although Captain Sir Tom Moore has earned a place in the hearts of the British public, his daughter’s actions (described in a TalkTV interview with Piers Morgan) have not gone down well.
Planning chiefs have ordered the illegal building to be demolished at a family’s Bedfordshire home, after retrospective plans for a building containing a spa pool were rejected.
Ingram-Moore and her husband are seeking permission to build a ‘Captain Tom Foundation Building’ in their garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, in 2021.
The building was approved for use ‘in association with the Captain Tom Foundation and saved its charity’, but the approval was later revoked after a larger building containing a spa pool was built.
Ms Ingram-Moore appealed against the demolition order.
September 2023
An investigation into the charity claims it had a ‘massive impact’ on fundraising, as the account revealed the late veteran’s daughter received more than £70,000 to run the charity.
October 2023
At the planning hearing, Ingram-Moores claimed the building would be used for rehabilitation sessions for local elderly people.
It is believed the new building will serve as a community space to store thousands of cards and gifts sent by admirers. But the neighbors were aghast when a bigger, luxury spa with pool and sauna appeared.
Council planners said the new building was not what they wanted and had ordered the pair to pull it down, issuing a ‘currently invalid building’ notice.
Ms Ingram-Moore broke her silence in an appearance on Piers Morgan: Uncensored, about the £85,000 salary she received as interim CEO of the Captain Tom Foundation.
He also claimed to have claimed £800,000 from a book written by a veteran of the NHS fundraising battle.
He also admitted that he received £7,602 in travel and administration fees between June 2021 and November 2022.
Furthermore, he admitted that he was paid £18,000 for attending the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards in 2021 – when he was paid as the body’s chief executive.
The money was paid to his family company, the Maytrix Group, and he paid £16,000, donating just £2,000 to the Captain Tom Foundation.
January 2024
A demolition team arrived at Hannah’s home to begin demolishing an illegal £200,000 luxury spa complex at her family home – after being ordered to remove it.
June 2023
Colin Ingram-Moore is leaving his role as a trustee of the Captain Tom Foundation
November 2023
The Charity Commission published the findings of its statutory inquiry into the Captain Tom Foundation after a three-year investigation.
Revelations proved damning. The commission found that the couple had acted improperly and warned the public that they had been ‘misled’ when they bought goods they thought would benefit the Captain Tom Foundation.
Ingram-Moores’ biggest payday came from a ‘misleading’ suggestion that the proceeds of a £1.4 million book deal would go to the organisation.
The commission said he had been asked to ‘rectify the problem by making a donation to a charity in line with its original purpose as understood by those involved’ but he ‘refused to do so’.
