Captain Tom’s daughter ordered to tear down house spa – as basis in his title stops taking donations
The Captain Tom Foundation says it has stopped taking donations after it emerged his daughter must tear down an unapproved house spa.
It additionally comes amid an ongoing Charity Commission investigation into its funds.
Planning bosses ordered an unauthorised constructing at Captain Tom’s daughter’s house be demolished, after plans for a block containing a spa pool had been rejected.
Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin utilized in 2021 for permission to construct a Captain Tom Foundation Building within the grounds of their house in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.
Plans for the location stated it might be used partly “in connection with The Captain Tom Foundation and its charitable objectives”.
Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore
Central Bedfordshire accepted them. However, the authority refused a retrospective software in 2022, for a bigger constructing, containing a spa pool.
The council spokesperson stated: “An enforcement notice requiring the demolition of the now-unauthorised building was issued and this is now subject to an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate.”
The basis’s assertion additionally comes amid a statutory inquiry by the Charity Commission over issues concerning the charity’s administration and independence from the late veteran’s household.
Captain Tom Moore was knighted by the Queen
An announcement on the inspiration’s website stated: “At this second in time, the only focus of The Captain Tom Foundation is to make sure that it cooperates absolutely with the continuing Statutory Inquiry by the Charity Commission.
“As a result, The Captain Tom Foundation is not presently actively seeking any funding from donors.
“Accordingly, we have now additionally taken the choice to shut all cost channels while the Statutory Inquiry stays open.”
The charity said it would be in a “higher place” to “decide in relation to its future” once it had received the findings of the inquiry.
Queen Elizabeth II talks to Captain Sir Thomas Moore and his household after awarding his knighthood throughout a ceremony at Windsor Castle
The charity was arrange in honour of Captain Sir Tom Moore, a 100-year-old struggle veteran who raised £39m for NHS Charities Together by strolling 100 laps of his backyard in April 2020.
Capt Sir Tom, who grew to become a nationwide hero and was personally knighted by the late Queen for his efforts, died in February 2021.
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A spokesman for the Charity Commission has stated it is not going to remark whereas the inquiry is ongoing.
The fee opened a case into the charity in March 2021, a month after the veteran’s dying, and expanded it right into a statutory inquiry in June final 12 months.