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Hannah Ingram-Moore -Victim or Villain?

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MrsImFedUpOfTheWeather · 15/08/2023 21:17

I'm inclined to think we've been scammed. Am I being unreasonable?

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MrsImFedUpOfTheWeather · 15/08/2023 22:42

Ah - well I'm an idiot then, but I only donated because I wanted to help. I totally fell for it. What an idiot.

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BlossomCloud · 15/08/2023 22:41

JenniferBooth · 15/08/2023 22:39

YY User Anyone who said anything questioning this at the time was a Covidiot and a conspiracy theorist.

I vaguely recall some fairly robust threads about it on Mumsnet at the time....

waterlego · 15/08/2023 22:41

Packageholiday · 15/08/2023 22:38

Rust abbot the astronomer?

I think that was Russell Grant. Russ Abbot was a ‘comedian’ in the 80s.

pourmeawine · 15/08/2023 22:40

I've been cynical about her since the very beginning and have constantly said that everyone went a bit mad about it all. I've also said that HE didn't raise the money, anyone who donated helped to raise the money, he was just a face for it. BUT as other posters have said any money that was donated as part of the £30 million to NHS charities will be safe. The only money in question is anything that was donated to the captain tom foundation directly which was created later on. It's the captain Tom foundation that she was paid to be manager of. She has no say or no control on any of the £30 million.

AlfietheSchnauzer · 15/08/2023 22:40

Toddlerteaplease · 15/08/2023 22:28

Glad I didn't donate. I didn't think it was that wonderful at the time abs looks like I was right.

Same!

JenniferBooth · 15/08/2023 22:39

YY User Anyone who said anything questioning this at the time was a Covidiot and a conspiracy theorist.

Packageholiday · 15/08/2023 22:38

Rust abbot the astronomer?

BlossomCloud · 15/08/2023 22:38

Trees6 · 15/08/2023 21:43

Her father was a good man I think. I’ll leave it there.

Who she exploited. It made me uneasy from the start (not being smug, I worked as an advisor to the charity sector for a time and sadly this does go on a at a smaller scale from time to time)

ginghamstarfish · 15/08/2023 22:37

I read that she had asked for more than £80k to run the charity but it was refused (by the charities commission). Anyhow does all seem dodgy, and as sincere as the old chap might have been, it was all whipped up into a bonkers kind of frenzy. Glad to hear the money did help the NHS to some small degree.

Prometheus · 15/08/2023 22:37

Maybe I’m cynical but if people were daft enough to donate money to some random old guy walking in circles around his garden then they deserve to be parted with their money. I’d never donate to a charity that was just some random person asking for money and you have to take their word that it will go to good causes.

drpet49 · 15/08/2023 22:32

CuteOrangeElephant · 15/08/2023 21:29

Total scammer. It was a grift from the start.

This.

Daineseturbo · 15/08/2023 22:31

absolute grift. I live locally, I will rejoice when they send the bulldozers in to tear down their massive spa extension.

In case the grifter is reading this, I’ll be the one with my bag of popcorn, camping chair and binoculars sitting opposite when the JCB rolls through the front gates. Joyful.

chuffoff · 15/08/2023 22:30

MrsImFedUpOfTheWeather · 15/08/2023 22:07

And where in the NHS charities fund did it end? Enquiring minds would like to know.

Our local hospital charity received a share and it was put towards the completion of a much needed new neo natal unit.

waterlego · 15/08/2023 22:29

I’m also confused and tickled by the mention of Russ Abbot.

Toddlerteaplease · 15/08/2023 22:28

Glad I didn't donate. I didn't think it was that wonderful at the time abs looks like I was right.

TheFairyCaravan · 15/08/2023 22:24

I knew she was a wrong un right from the start. Me and DS1 said something like this would happen right from the get go. You couldn’t say anything other than how great they were, at the time, without being vilified. When she took him on his holidays and he caught Covid, Piers Morgan had a whopping tantrum about how the haterz were upsetting poor Hannah.

She did everything she coukd to thrust herself him into the spotlight. It was always about fame and money for her. She’s an awful woman imo.

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MrsImFedUpOfTheWeather · 15/08/2023 22:24

Were they so rich they could single it down?😂

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Motnight · 15/08/2023 22:23

Motnight · 15/08/2023 22:21

Russ Abbott??

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Just googled. It could have been Cliff Richard.

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MrsImFedUpOfTheWeather · 15/08/2023 22:22

Food and wellbeing for staff? That's questionable for a start. That isn't what people thought they were donating to. I'd like to see how that money was spent.

Never again will I give to a 'charity'. Charities are for fools.

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doroda · 15/08/2023 22:21

PearlWithoutPrice · 15/08/2023 21:47

Taking the old boy on a long haul holiday during a pandemic where he caught COVID off Russ Abbott and ended up in GRAVE

Oh god, I can’t stop laughing.

This really tickled me too

Motnight · 15/08/2023 22:21

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr · 15/08/2023 21:29

Horrendous profiteer. Building a spa and trying to get round planning permission by pretending it’s for the company. Taking the old boy on a long haul holiday during a pandemic where he caught COVID off Russ Abbott and ended up in GRAVE.

Russ Abbott??

ParkheadParadise · 15/08/2023 22:17

I thought Russ Abbott died years ago 🤷‍♀️

Blossomtoes · 15/08/2023 22:15

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr · 15/08/2023 21:29

Horrendous profiteer. Building a spa and trying to get round planning permission by pretending it’s for the company. Taking the old boy on a long haul holiday during a pandemic where he caught COVID off Russ Abbott and ended up in GRAVE.

To be fair it was hardly tragically young!

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MrsImFedUpOfTheWeather · 15/08/2023 22:13

If they'd done anything good with it we'd have heard about it.

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