EXCLUSIVE: Captain Tom’s daughter’s companies have lost nearly £100,000 as row continues to rumble on over her swimming pool – but they are still worth £648,000

Captain Tom’s daughter’s firms have seen their funds plummet by almost £100,000 because the row continues to rumble on over her swimming pool – however she is unlikely to be left ravenous as they’re nonetheless price £648,000.

Hannah Ingram-Moore, 53, is registered as director of 5 separate energetic firms which had a complete of £658,457 shareholders funds of their final accounting interval.

This was down £97,213 from the 12 months earlier than – when the companies massed a shocking £745,670.

The controversial daughter of lockdown hero Captain Tom can be the previous director of an extra 5 firms – three of which have been dissolved or she has resigned from in since 2020.

Her husband Colin, 66, is an extra a part of Granite Buyers SPE II LLP – an Aberdeen partnership price greater than £1.3million whose 26 officers additionally embody Sir Alex Ferguson.

It comes as anger in the direction of the mother-of-two continues after she was ordered to demolish an unauthorised spa pool advanced in her backyard.

Ms Ingram-Moore utilized in 2021 for permission for an L-shaped constructing, which was authorized, however council officers later rejected a retrospective software in 2022 for the totally different formed spa.

The Captain Tom Basis constructing was given an enforcement discover in July by Central Bedfordshire Council that it ought to be demolished because it was a ‘non-unauthorised’ constructing.

Officers have now dismissed an attraction towards its demolition, with inspector Diane Fleming saying the ‘scale and massing’ of the brand new constructing – which has not been completed – ‘resulted in hurt’ to The Previous Rectory, the Grade II-listed household residence.

Probably the most notable loss amongst Ms Ingram-Moore’s fleet of companies is Whitaker World – which misplaced greater than two thirds of its worth within the final 12 months.

In keeping with accounts filed with Firms Home in late October, the agency’s shareholders’ funds had been slashed from £54,591 in 2022 to only £16,460 this 12 months.

Nobody has been employed by the corporate for 2 years, whereas a £3,000 financial institution mortgage has been taken out.

It’s mentioned to offer ‘administration consultancy actions apart from monetary administration’.

Arrange with Captain Tom as director in 2015, it was initially known as Ibrutum Ltd, and though it utilized to be dissolved in 2019 this was discontinued simply 20 days later.

The enterprise – which Ms Ingram-Moore joined in 2016, taking up from her hero father – had reserves of £148,691 at its excessive level in 2017, which means the corporate has been lowered to only a tenth of its earlier worth.

A second firm, Maytrix Group Restricted, has seen its shareholders funds lowered from £195,955 in 2021 to £170,333 in 2022.

A lack of greater than £25,000, it exhibits plunge of almost 15 per cent in a single 12 months for the enterprise co-directed by Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband.

The corporate works to assist companies optimise their operations and speed up their enterprise development – and nonetheless lists an award given to Captain Sir Tom Moore for his heroics as theirs months after it was uncovered by MailOnline.

A 3rd firm – known as Maytrix Folks Restricted – seems to have been placed on ice for one more 12 months, with figures for 2022 and 2021 each displaying as £100.

And the controversial Membership Nook firm – which was on the centre of a probe by the Charity Fee into The Captain Tom Basis – has seen its income drop off by almost £50,000 within the final 12 months. 

Membership Nook Ltd was registered by Mrs Ingram-Moore in April 2020, lower than two weeks earlier than the Captain Tom Basis was included. It owns a lot of trademark-registered names for merchandise together with beer, spirits, greeting playing cards, lunch packing containers and water bottles. 

The corporate made £809,000 in its first 12 months, and after collectors had been paid it was left with just below £500,000. 

In 2021, Membership Nook registered £484,894 in shareholders funds, which dropped to £437,744 within the following 12 months – a fall of almost 10 per cent.

Just one firm the Ingram-Moores are administrators in has made a revenue – with CTV (2020) Restricted, of which Ms Ingram-Moore is registered because the industrial director alongside her husband as firm director, bringing in £23,820 in 2022.

This was greater than double the £10,130 it had in capital and reserves in 2021 – its first registered determine after the corporate was began in October 2020.

The amount of money raked in by Captain Moore’s household off the again of his £39million fundraising legacy was laid naked final month – amid rising requires them to provide it again. 

Hannah Ingram-Moore confessed and broke down in tears in an interview with Piers Morgan after admitting maintaining £800k from income of his books.

The broadcaster declared that holding on to the cash was ‘deeply unethical and a betrayal’ of her father’s legacy.

However Ms Ingram-Moore advised TalkTV that Sir Tom needed them to get the income from his three books.

Nonetheless, the prologue of his autobiography calls this declare into query and suggests the veteran thought his books had been simply one other manner for him to lift money for good causes.

Crying, she advised Mr Morgan: ‘These had been my father’s books, and it was truthfully such a pleasure for him to write down them, however they had been his books.

‘He had an agent they usually labored on that deal, and his needs had been…’ Mr Morgan interjected: ‘So that you can maintain?’, and she or he responded: ‘Sure. Particularly’.

In an emotionally-charged interview Ms Ingram-Moore’s household urged she had been suicidal they usually had suffered dying threats.

However following their admissions, the Sir Captain Tom Moore Twitter account was inundated with messages from individuals who donated, demanding the household give the money again.

Ms Ingram-Moore’s husband Colin advised Mr Morgan: ‘We must always have achieved it another way’ – however the household has to this point refused to return any money.

Ms Ingram-Moore additionally broke her silence on the £85,000 wage she earned as interim CEO of the Captain Tom Basis. She additionally acquired £7,602 in expense funds for journey and administration between June 2021 and November 2022.

She additional admitted she was paid £18,000 for attending the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Basis Connector Awards in 2021 – when already being paid as chief government of the physique.

The cash was paid to her household agency, Maytrix Group, and she or he banked £16,000, donating simply £2,000 to the Captain Tom Basis.

Maytrix Group has already been pilloried for taking as much as £100,000 in furlough money and £47,500 in Covid loans throughout the pandemic.

The household additionally opened up about their remorse over constructing a controversial spa and pool advanced at their mansion – however confessed that they’re hoping to win an attraction to maintain it nonetheless. 

The planning software for Ms Ingram-Moore’s annexe indicated it could be used as workplace house for the Captain Tom Basis.

The household had additionally claimed the constructing could be used for espresso mornings and rehabilitation classes for native aged folks. It was additionally believed it could be a group house to retailer hundreds of playing cards and presents despatched by admirers.

Council planners say the brand new constructing was not what was supposed and have ordered the couple to drag it down, issuing a ‘now unauthorised constructing’ discover.

Richard Procter, the Principal Planning Enforcement Officer at Central Beds Council mentioned the unique constructing was authorized due to the stability of public profit outweighed the hurt.

He went on: ‘The scheme was for storing the playing cards. There was no info given to the council about the usage of the spa. ‘

Scott Stemp, the barrister representing the Ingram-Moore household mentioned the previous tennis courtroom had fallen in disrepair. He mentioned the intention needed to be retailer a number of memorabilia and related gadgets – to not retailer all of the memorabilia.

He mentioned the constructing was unfinished and had not be cladded as work stopped due to the council’s enforcement order. 

The couple used the identify of the Captain Tom Basis when the plans had been first lodged. Permission to go forward was granted in August 2021, however the charity mentioned it had no data of the proposal.

They are saying the constructing which is estimated to have value £200,000, was paid for with their very own cash.

Requested by the inspector how a lot of the constructing could be used for the household’s charitable work in reference to Captain Sir Moore, Mr Stemp mentioned it was within the area of a two-thirds, one-thirds cut up. The plan is to permit teams to come back and have older folks to get folks to speak to one another, he mentioned.

On behalf of the Ingram-Moores, James Paynter, a surveyor, mentioned the constructing could be used for a espresso morning atmosphere. ‘The household need to get folks to speak to one another.’

He mentioned the scheme had advanced to incorporate the spa. ‘The spa pool has the chance to supply rehabilitation classes for aged folks within the space. They need to provide one to 1 session, on a a couple of times per week foundation.’