CAPTAIN Tom’s daughter’s firm is ready to be struck off after making hundreds of kilos from the Covid hero’s charity.
Hannah Ingram-Moore and husband Colin have been embroiled in scandal because it got here to mild that they’d funnelled charity money into an unlawful spa.
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The couple have lengthy tried to defend themselves in court docket, been dumped as trustees for the Captain Tom Basis and have now run into extra woes.
The Ingram-Moores’ consultancy agency Maytrix Group Ltd, which raked in an enormous amount of money from the drama-hit basis, is now set to be struck off.
Corporations Home reveals the enterprise is almost two months late with its accounts, which ought to have been due on Could 21, 2024.
That is additionally the third time within the final 4 years that it’s been threatened with a “discover for obligatory strike-off”.
Maytrix Group took as much as £100,000 in furlough cash and £47,500 in Covid loans regardless of bumper income within the pandemic.
The Captain Tom Moore Basis accounts additionally reveal that the agency made a fortune from bills that it charged the charity.
In line with the inspiration’s accounts, Maytrix Group was handed again £37,942 in reimbursements “in respect of web site prices (£5,030), pictures prices (£550), workplace rental (£4,500), phone prices (£656) and third-party consultancy prices (£27,205)”.
The corporate’s newest accounts, which was launched on September 28, present that gathered revenue had fallen from £195,855 to £170,233, a drop of £25,622.
Hannah is listed as a founding director, and Colin the chief government.
The Solar has approached Maytrix Group Ltd and the Captain Tom Basis for remark.
The corporate’s listed cellphone quantity does not ring and it is web site says it “cannot be reached”.
It comes only one week after The Solar solely revealed the inspiration nonetheless had £280,000 of property within the financial institution.
Earlier this month Colin was struck off from his high spot as director of the charity after being barred as a trustee – alongside Hannah – by the Charities Fee.
The couple had been banned as charity trustees for eight and 10 years respectively.
In November the couple had been ordered to tear down the unauthorised luxurious spa.
That they had six weeks to rescue the constructing after dropping a court docket case in October – however didn’t launch an attraction.
The Planning Inspectorate beforehand dominated the spa was constructed illegally. should be pulled down in three months.
Central Bedfordshire Council initially granted the couple permission to erect a small charity workplace within the identify of the Captain Tom Basis in 2021.
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Hanna and Colin’s assertion claimed the constructing was for use partly “in reference to The Captain Tom Basis and its charitable aims”.
Then, in 2022, they submitted a subsequent retrospective software for an extension to type a C-shape constructing, containing a spa pool.
The construction was known as The Captain Tom Constructing and described as “a brand new constructing to be used by the occupiers”, aka Hannah and Colin.
The court docket heard this later “advanced” to incorporate the spa pool, with altering rooms, bathrooms and showers to sit down alongside their £1.2million residence.
The couple, who’re nonetheless cashing in on Captain Tom by utilizing his reminiscence to push the sale of their seven-bed £2.25million pad, had been discovered to have raked in tens of hundreds.
Hannah beforehand spoke in regards to the ordeal in a bombshell interview with TalkTV’s Piers Morgan and admitted to pocketing cash from the £39million NHS fund-raising veteran.
She revealed they stored £800,000 from the three books her dad had written – claiming he had wished them to maintain the income.
Different controversies embody her £18,000 cost to attend the Captain Tom awards – and solely donating £2,000 of it to his charity.
The veteran’s daughter additionally was paid the big sum to attend the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Basis Connector Awards in 2021.
