Last month, it emerged the charity set up in his honour is under investigation following claims it tried to make the war veteran’s daughter its CEO -and pay her a six-figure salary.
’s daughter has appeared on TV to tearfully deny allegations against the foundation set up in her father’s name.following claims it tried to make the war veteran’s daughter its CEO -and pay her a six-figure salary.
Sir Tom became world-famous when he raised more than £38 million for the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday. Mrs Ingram-Moore told This Morning that the accounts were ‘a snapshot in time in the first year of the charity’ and denied all wrongdoing.Mrs Ingram-Moore said the family had been ‘naïve’ but ‘not bad’ in setting up a charity
‘What the trustees did was ask for a benchmarking: “Please tell us if we were to employ a CEO, what would be the benchmark? What’s the highest, what’s the lowest?” The highest happened to be £150,000,’ she said.‘There’s nothing wrong, we haven’t made any false action, and I genuinely think, though, that the vast majority of people think that’.
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