Daughter of Captain Tom Moore, Hannah Ingram-Moore, has claimed that her family's reputation has been "demolished", following an investigation by the Charity Commission.
Speaking to GB News in an exclusive interview with Nana Akua, Ingram-Moore opened up on how an inquiry into The Captain Tom Foundation has "devastated their lives", and vowed it is "time to move on".
The report by the Commission, published in late 2024, found repeated instances of misconduct and/or mismanagement by the family, who set up the charity in Captain Tom's name.
David Holdsworth, CEO of the Charity Commission, said the charity set up in his name "has not lived up to that legacy of others before self, which is central to charity".
Hannah Ingram-Moore sat down with GB News for the first time since the Charity Commission investigation
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Speaking of the impact of the investigation on her family, Ingram-Moore told GB News: "The reality is that this has been devastating on a personal level, emotionally, financially, to have a reputation that you build up over decades demolished so quickly.
"That's exactly what's happened. I have my own business, but no one will touch my business now. Our lives have been devastated - financially we have been completely and utterly depleted."
When asked by Nana about the family's home, which Captain Tom fundraised almost £40million for the NHS, Ingram-Moore revealed that after 14 "happy years together" as a family, it is "time to move on" and leave the property.
She admitted: "We will have to move in the end. There used to be seven people in this house, and now everyone's left. It's just my husband and me - it's time for us to move on.
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Captain Tom Moore raised almost £40million for NHS Charities Together during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020
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"Not many people even begin to think that there might have been an impact on us, but here we sit, surrounded by the extraordinary things that were my father's, and this is where he lived 14 really, gloriously happy years."
When pressed by Nana if she has "any regrets" about how the family dealt with the charity following the Commission's investigation, Ingram-Moore explained: "I want to be positive because I'm a naturally positive person, I don't want to look at life down a really dark lens, but it's hard to see the future in anything other than hard steps forward.
"People from 162 countries donated to that £38.9million, and they were not benefiting from the NHS. They were donating for my father, giving hope for my father, and giving them joy for something that he represented.
"How could we how could we undo that? He positively touched so many people's lives. Even now, with the devastation that's happened afterwards, I'd find it really difficult to say we wouldn't do it again."
Ingram-Moore says the family's reputation has been 'demolished'
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However, Ingram-Moore expressed doubt over the charity set up in his name, telling GB News: "I think we could have kept the legacy alive without that friend of ours saying, 'oh, I think you should set up a charity'.
"I think if we could change anything, it would probably be that because we could have kept my father's legacy alive without it."
Discussing her late father, Ingram-Moore claimed that Captain Tom would feel the way the family has been treated is "despicable", and he had a "very strong opinion of right and wrong".
She said: "My father and he had a very strong opinion of right and wrong, and he would think how we've been treated was despicable. I can only be given the chance to tell what we know to be true, and allow people to make up their own minds."
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