The daughter of NHS hero Sir Captain Tom Moore has appeared on TV to address claims around the charity set up in her dad's name.
Hannah Ingram-Moore has been subject to reports that Captain Tom Foundation not only tried to appoint her as its CEO on a six-figure salary but also paid more than £50,000 to companies run by the Ingram-Moores.
It was also claimed that the foundation's accounts are being investigated by the Charity Commission - which Hannah denies.
Talking exclusively to Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on Thursday's This Morning, Hannah was first asked to address where the money her late father raised had gone.
Sir Captain Tom garnered widespread attention after vowing to walk 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday during the first lockdown in 2020.
Hannah said: "When we challenged my father to walk up and down for a pound a lap, that three and a half weeks raised £38.9million pounds and that entire £38.9 million went to NHS Charities Together and they distributed it."
Accounts for The Captain Tom Foundation showed only £162,000 was awarded in its first year, while around £240,000 of £400,000 in outgoings were spent on fundraising and administration.
Addressing the accounts, Hannah said: "We published our first annual accounts and they are independently audited and in that first year of the charity, my business loaned the foundation some money because we didn’t want to eat into the first donation we had - which was a £100,000 from a corporate donor - and that's all we had.
"We didn’t want to take that money for costs, so we loaned it and we were lending money from my business that was also suffering during the pandemic, so we need to have it reimbursed.
"So very straight forward, when the charity had a bit more money, we were reimbursed those costs and that landed us a headline, that I had essentially paid myself £50,000 into my own business, which was absolutely not true."
When asked if there was any truth on the reports of a six-figure salary, Hannah replied: "Absolutely none. It’s absolutely not true, what the trustees did was ask for a benchmarking and asked ‘if we were to employ a CEO what’s the highest, what’s the lowest’, so it’s simply not true."
She later added: "I am guarding my father’s legacy, we would never hurt it. But I would never be able to sit on here and tell you something that’s not true. It’s clear, our accounts are there to be seen. But we are not hiding anything.
"There’s nothing wrong, we haven’t made any false action and I genuinely think that the vast majority of people know that. But those clickbait headlines have been destructive and have put the foundation in peril."
Last month, Hannah issued a statement after she and her family were "trolled" on social media.
She said: "It has been hurtful to my family and me to read allegations and slurs in social media and some parts of the press.
"We are disappointed with some of the coverage this matter has received and particularly by the way we have been 'trolled' on social media.
"Some of these baseless posts have been really hurtful and vile, and many have conflated the enormous amount raised by my father and paid directly to NHS charities, and money raised by the Captain Tom Foundation."
Responding to comment she had read, Hannah told Holly and Phil: "To read things like ‘Capt Sir Tom’s daughter pumps tens of thousands of pounds into her own companies’ has been heartbreaking because it simply isn’t true."
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