Captain Tom Foundation

I work for a charity. There are some very odd (and dare I say it ignorant) comments on here about how charities operate which confuse me.

They come under a lot of scrutiny from the Charities commission. Our management are effing petrified of having to report anything to them.

Having said that this woman though is a bloody disgrace. Clearly siphoned off a load of cash to build that swimming pool which went against planning permission and awarded herself a massive salary.

Stinks really.

The vast majority of charities are extremely well run. This is a massive exception, hence the media coverage.
 
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Colgates_shaving_foam said:
I think I have seen it reported that the daughter was the one that got the media involved and insisted on calling him 'captain' Tom, the man himself apparently was a bit bemused by it as he said he retired in 1945 so hadn't been a captain for a long long time.
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Well I can fully believe that. TBH you’d have to be an absolute d*ck to insist on being called Captain by everyone 75 years after you left the army.
 
The one who has pulled all the strings on this from way back and now is her husband Colin Ingram-Moore

Colin, who worked as the director of Maytrix Group, is now the co-founder of The Captain Tom Foundation.

His profile on the Maytrix website states he has a "demonstrated history of working in financial business planning and the management consulting industry".

He's been director level at 51 companies named on Companies house and was recently at one that had huge debts. Something about a company that bought chalk quarries then filled them in then sold it for land to develop on.

He has suggested all along how this is all structured and she goes along with it .
 
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The thing is, people will say 'yeah but he raised loads for charity' (of course fundamentally a good thing) but think about the amount of damage this saga may have done to charitable acts in general, with a rightly increased level of cynicism now surely to surround any acts like this in the future. The woman seems absolutely shameless to me.
 
uncle_rico said:
Has she been knocking these out on the side as well?
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I refer the Honourable Gentleman to my earlier answer:

newusername said:
I thought the family started the foundation as unscrupulous 3rd parties were trying to exploit the "Captain Tom" name for commercial purposes and for products that he didn't/wouldn't have supported, so it was a way of protecting his name/legacy.

It is just unfortunate that the family have subsequently tried to enrich themselves through exploiting his name.
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So yes they are & approx 16% of the revenue will go to NHS Charities. God bless Captain Tom & all those that profit from him. ;)
 
There shouldnt be any need for 'charity' on these islands - your monies used during Covid to protect the business monopolies and the richest should have shown you that.

politics and parliament allow it, as it gets them off the hook and enables them to look like 'pillars of the community'.

the richest even get tax relief on it.

you would have to question if cpt tom actually knew what he was doing or was he placed in the garden by duplicitous means - abuse - if there is an irony, its that those who gave at the time werent giving it to their usual source of charity, 'Tommy Robinson Co Ltd'

here is another example;

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The St Mungos strike situation is a compelling example of how orgs in the field of inequality can end up perpetuating the exact thing they were set up to combat. We have a situation where a homelessness charity is treating its staff so badly that they are themselves becoming homeless. All the while the number of senior staff on large salaries has mushroomed. The last chief exec was on more than £160,000, the current one (Emma Haddad) is on £220,000 and the org was reportedly sitting on reserves of 22 million whilst staff had a pay freeze which in real terms meant a pay cut of 20% At this point we have to admit that charities that follow the growth model become part of the problem. They are not serving anyone and we need to restructure how we deal with society's problems - ©️ jess turtle.

the entire sector is a rotten borough.
 
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