Colonel Sir Tom - Your Circuit's Dead, There's Something Wrong...

Never had you as a Bee Gees devotee.

 

This was missed yesterday, look like Tom's daughter has been banned from being a charity trustee for 10 years by the charity commission, the husband for 8 years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy79q7ej49yo

 

Very tough for them both. Perhaps they should start a Gofundme page to cover this difficult period ?

 

It's just a shame the head of this infamous crime family faked his own death to avoid justice.

 

Or was he about to spill the beans and so "had to go" ??
Did Letby have an alibi ?

 

I wonder if he was under that fancy new spa all along?

 

In the absence of BH today, this story has cheered me up.

Stuff the Master Bates thing. ItV needs to make a Sopranos style Dramedy about these goons.

 

Although I've come to this late it's still worth celebrating.

Captain Sir Tom Moore's daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin have been disqualified from being charity trustees by the Charity Commission. A statement from the family said they would not appeal against the decision but they "fundamentally disagree with the conclusions reached by the Charity Commission".
Yeah of course they do. How often have we heard this sort of line from those caught with their hands in the till for white collar crime?

Nice to see justice for the 'Hole in the Spa' gang especially when Capt Tom's Cabin took a terminal tumble in February! Too strong? Next up Michelle 'Moan' and fat Doug Barrow Boy perhaps followed by the very Reverend Vennells...? Please form an orderly queue.

 

The justifiable hate being poured towards this family by those that enabled them in the first place.

 

Remind me of that bit in 1984 when it's revealed that the enemy all along was Eastasia and the hate swaps from Eurasia to Eastasia.

 

We should have a "Hate Week".

 

The family of the NHS charities fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore personally benefited from the charity set up in his name through a series of lucrative deals worth more than £1m, the charities watchdog has ruled in a highly critical report.

A Charity Commission inquiry concluded the late Captain Tom’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband, Colin Ingram-Moore, were culpable of “serious and repeated” instances of misconduct, mismanagement and failures of integrity.

The Ingram-Moores, who set up the Captain Tom Foundation in 2020 to support good causes, repeatedly blurred their private interests with those of the charity while gaining “significant” personal benefit, the inquiry found.

A spokesperson for the foundation said it was “pleased with the Charity Commission’s unequivocal findings regarding the Ingram-Moores’ misconduct”.

The charity is “imploring the Ingram-Moores to rectify matters by returning the funds due to the foundation, so that they can be donated to well-deserving charities as intended by the late Captain Sir Tom Moore”, the spokesperson added.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...efited-from-charity-they-founded-report-finds

 

The BBC report is even more damning BBC News - Captain Tom's family benefitted from charity - inquiry - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86qdq67dd5o

 

I fugging love this.

Old man walks in his garden, huge sums of money are raised, corrupt couple line their pockets.

This has to be made into a film.

 

Link doesn't work. Stupid woke BBC

 

Capt Tom must be spinning / walking round his grave....
(Sorry, think I did the same joke last year)

 

Grifters

 

What disappointing behaviour, and sadly indicative of a world where greed and self-gain matter most for many people.

The worry with cases like this is that it might put off some good people from donating to charities.

Thank Goodness for the likes of Paddy McGuiness. Nearly £10 million raised now, and both he and those who donated are a symbol of the best of British, unlike this grubby couple back in the news today.

 

So she initially wanted a £150k (!) salary to over see a charity that ultimately only raised £1.5m and only ever gave out £370k, grifted £18 for herself for one public appearance she didn’t even make, wanted to cream off all the profits from a £1.5m 3 book deal and declined to give any of it to the charity, then of course built themselves a spa and claimed it would also be for ‘other old people’.

Absolute scum, but it’s funny how being completely dishonest ***** has caught up with them in such spectacular fashion.

 

The Boss of Children in need has a take home pay of Over £150K.

Big charity is big business. I choose to keep my donations local

 

And how much do children in need raise?

Hannah Poncenby Smyth only oversaw £1.5m of donations, an absolute pittance on charitable terms, of that only £370k actually went to any good causes. The £39m raised prior managed itself and went directly to the NHS.

 

Here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86qdq67dd5o , I previously did it from my phone so maybe it's why it screwed up.

Some snippets:

Mr Holdsworth said there were repeated instances of a "blurring of boundaries between private and charitable interests" and that Hannah and Colin Ingram-Moore benefitted significantly.

The regulator’s findings showed that Club Nook, a private firm set up by the Ingram-Moores in April 2020, was paid an advance of £1.47m for Capt Sir Tom’s three books, including his best-selling autobiography, Tomorrow Will be a Good Day.
The publisher Penguin, and promoter Carver PR, said the family gave repeated assurances that part of the advance would be used to set up and fund the foundation.

However, to date the charity has not received any money from the publishing agreement.
In 2022, the commission said the inquiry twice asked Mr and Mrs Ingram-Moore to "rectify matters by making a donation to charity" but "on both occasions they declined".

Mrs Ingram-Moore was "very much involved in discussions around setting her salary" and said to trustee Stephen Jones that "her expectations were in the region of £150,000 per annum".

She "purposely" removed the conflicts of interest clause from her employment contract with the charity, telling Mr Jones: "This is not a legal requirement... I will not be doing anything to conflict with all my roles but I cannot be in a position to request authority at every turn, my life would grind to a halt."

 

"It's what he would have wanted".

 

That last paragraph is absolutely outstanding stuff:

She "purposely" removed the conflicts of interest clause from her employment contract with the charity, telling Mr Jones: "This is not a legal requirement... I will not be doing anything to conflict with all my roles but I cannot be in a position to request authority at every turn, my life would grind to a halt."

 

I desperately need a new spa complex. Where do you live and how far away qualifies as "local"?

 

Her doing porridge?

 

*Wood of

 

I don't object to someone who oversees a charity which helps manage millions of pounds, which does go to needy end users making that sort of money. £150k is not a large paycheck for a CEO and if you are running a large organisation, you do need some skills. I'm not boot licking the private sector CEOs who earn tens of millions off the backs of minimum wage workers, but I think 150k for managing a multi million pound charity isn't obscene on the face of it.

 

I've got to say, I love this thread and each sordid detail of this grubby family's misdeeds.

I never liked Captain Tom either. There, I said it. I hated his record with Michael Ball especially.

 

I'm sure she's already thinking about Captain Tom branded breakfast options, yes.

 

Yes. It’s all very noble to scoff at a charity CEO earning a big salary, but in many cases they oversee organisations that have turnovers in excess of the hundreds of millions. It’s just as challenging if not more challenging than running a comparable sized business, so if you expect them to pick from a pool of candidates who will do it for free then the outcome at the end be of it will be obvious.

Of course, demanding a £150k salary to oversee a charity with a turnover of £1.5m is entirely preposterous, but that’s not normal, that’s just attempted fraud at best,

 

I can genuinely say I never bought into it. I absolutely despise it when the media latch on to one thing and it blows up to the point I actively dislike it. At the time, there were many, many more noble efforts and impressive feats of fundraising that got zero recognition. This was just a classic case of everyone (including the public) jumping on the bandwagon and creating a disgusting snowball of self congratulation.

I do appreciate people needed hope at that time, I just have discomfort form the fact it was the media who randomly picked it for us and shoved it down our throats.

I also feel slightly uneasy about the fact that at a time when the NHS was on its knees, it took something like this blowing up for £39m to be donated to it, why were people holding out until that?

 

Because people are ****s?