Sir Tom Moore Charity: Found Seriously Mismanaged

I don’t think so. What is being suggested, I think, is that the daughter is misusing the funds raised for charity on herself and family.
Curiously, when it was all happening during COVID, I had a bad feeling about the publicity and all that, that the daughter was plugging. My gut seems to be right.

All the money raised by him for NHS was passed on correctly. It was the royalties from his book that seems to be the problem.

I never got with the whole thing I thought he was a game old boy but I felt it was all choreographed from the start and I didn’t join in the adulation However that’s not to do with him but the stuff going on around him I felt he was a pawn in a bigger story right from day one Sometimes you just get feelings

I totally agree bluebelle.

I have read up on this since it was posted. What a greedy, manipulative daughter, who used her very old father for money she turns out to be. She and her husband have profited from a National Disaster and besmirched Tom Moores name. Truly hope the couple lose their home and pay everything back to charity, they deserve to be made an example of. Wheres the other daughter in all this?

I thought the whole thing was orchestrated from the start.
I'm not even so sure about him.

I agree with BlueBelle too. It all seemed very OTT. And the daughter even wheeled out the children/grandchildren to add to the story. That wasn't right.

From the start I didn’t take to Hannah Ingram-Moore, there was just something about the whole thing that smacked of self interest and exploitation (I think Capt. Tom was quite aware of the whole situation) and unfortunately many of the public were swept up in the whole thing.
Her appearances at events like Wimbledon made me feel sick, from the beginning it was all about her.
I’m glad everything is coming to light.

Allsorts I thought it was very telling that the other daughter kept out of the limelight.

Sheer greed, lack of morals and blatant dishonesty. They’ve tainted the memory of Captain Tom who will now be associated with his family’s corruption. She was in PR so got lots of publicity and freebies. The Foundation was just a vehicle to line their pockets.

Very sad

The £38 million Captain Tom specifically raised for the NHS went to the NHS.

It is the money from his publications, and the manipulation of his name and charity to get that spa building (now demolished) built that tarnishes his family.

My sympathies are with his other daughter, who will also suffer reputation loss, even though it is clear that she was not involved in the degrading sleight of hand involving her sister and husband and the income from the books.

I honestly don't think this has anything to do with the lovely gentleman himself, it has to do with his greedy family. If it is proven that they have committed fraud then they should be arrested.

Why are so many lovely parents let down by their greedy children just out for themselves.

I didn't find him lovely at all.
Still that's just me and it doesn't matter what I thought.

I think Tom Moore was perfectly genuine. It was his daughter Hannah and her shadowy husband Colin who seized the opportunities raised by his fundraising for their own benefit. Some of the money was diverted into ostensibly charitable purposes such as the 'family holidays' on Tom Moore's 'bucket list', the swimming pool which turned out to be for their own use, and the revenue from their book believed to raise money for the charity but has yet to make a single donation.
I would not be surprised if eventually they are charged with fraud.

Of course I didn't know him, but no I didn't find him lovely.

It was a time of national insanity really. Perhaps he started off with good intentions and it got out of hand.

I don't think that the findings come as a surprise to most people. I can't help wondering what the difference between 'mismanagement' and 'misleading comments/statements' and fraud is. Surely their deception is fraud and therefore criminal?

I am with MissAdventure on this one, the whole episode felt 'off' from the start.

I was not convinced by any of it, once it became clear that the family had contacted ITV to do a segment about his garden walk, before he was even known.

The whole thing seemed so contrived.

Shame though.

MissAdventure

I didn't find him lovely at all.
Still that's just me and it doesn't matter what I thought.

Me too. I wasn't sure at the time, but I've read his book and he comes over very differently to the image he portrayed in the media during his walks, especially the way he treated his first wife and shares details about their sex life in the book.

As you said our thoughts don't matter though. Plus the NHS Charities did get a lot of money and that's got to be a good thing.

Yes, probably best to just focus on that.
The nhs, I mean, not the book. (Or anything in it!! )

Bloody glad i didn't donate anything though.

We all lost our minds a bit during Covid, and there were plenty of people around to take advantage of that.

Galaxy

We all lost our minds a bit during Covid, and there were plenty of people around to take advantage of that.

Very well made point, emotions were heightened. I agree with the majority here, the exploitative daughter has rightly been humiliated

That's all the worse,really, thinking how terrified some people were, and how isolated.

You're right, I'd forgotten, I suppose.

I didn’t donate anything because I felt uncomfortable about it. That’s unusual for me because I do give to good causes.