Did the captain Tom foundation charity really use the money to build their own spa pool??

[Terryer]

Just reading the paper this morning and see the family of Captain Tom have been ordered to pull down a building in their garden with a spa pool. I think it's a planning issue but the inference is that they used the money raised to build it. Did they really?

Well it’s his wife’s pool really.
In the event of a split Rishi would probably come out with less than Heather Mills did from Paul McCartney.
However he’s very comfortable in his own right.

I loved Sir Tom but his daughter has capitalised on his name before I believe? Didn't she get in trouble for "working for him" and giving herself a 100k annual pay?

The application for the latest building was done in the charities name. It was done under the guise of it being an office and it now has a pool and spa in there too...

The SIL isn’t a successful property developer

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10553729/Auditors-raised-red-flags-companies-run-Captain-Toms-son-law-foundation-trustee.html

The papers are implying that but from what I gather, the family was already quite wealthy but before Major Tom's charity walk. Also they may have inherited money from his estate too.

If there are blurry lines between family and charity money though, I'm sure the Charity Commission will get to the bottom of it. They take a dim view of anything that undermines the public trust in charities.

The money Captain Tom raised for NHS Charities Together was definitely above board, I know staff at our local hospital definitely benefited with a garden and wellbeing space.

I think questions are rightly being asked about the money raised by the Captain Tom foundation which is entirely separate and seemingly was controlled by his family and it appears may not have been run in accordance with Charity Commission rules on financial governance.

Linda McCartney made ends meet selling meatless sausages. Perhaps he could also do a line of replacement products. hmmm, let's see, how about "I can't believe it's not healthcare" (100% compassion free).

What’s Rishi’s pool got to do with anything? It’s his money!

Perhaps the newly built spa room will be for NHS employees ie hard-working doctors and nurses but I can’t see it can you

Exactly other news agency's are available. It's only on mumsnet Is it a thing If you read the daily mail or not !

Exactly, maybe Brexit will get shoehorned in as well

I’m more than happy to blame anything at all on Mark Francois MP

There is percentage that charities are allowed to deduct for expenses and it isn’t 92%. It’s a lot less.
I was involved in a raffle to raise funds for Help for Hero’s. I was had to register the raffle with the Charities Commission, they have strict rules on how much can be deducted for expenses. In our case it was 13%. We actually didn’t deduct that much.
They were extremely helpful in explaining what was and wasn’t considered a legitimate expense, a twenty minute phone call with them to establish what we were raffling (a car) how much we could sell the tickets for (£1.00, anything more needs special permission) the tickets had to be printed with the HfH charities reg number, my reg number from the commission, my address and phone number and a lot of stuff I’ve forgotten. This was followed up by a letter.

As a former king-standing constituent of Mark Francois @AutumnCrow , I too am happy to help blame on him. Useless mp, useless human being.

*heap

I can't see that the £33m CT raised actually got paid to the NHS; I hope it did, as otherwise that is a gross misuse of funds.

Sounds like he was coerced into doing the laps thing

Not sure LM ever had to "make ends meet" by doing anything after she married PM 😂you make her sound as if she was on the market every Saturday yelling "get yer bangers 'ere - 3 fer a pand"

It's what he would have wanted

Captain Tom cheered us all up and distracted us at a very stressful time. If a very old chap could make the massive effort to walk round his garden and have a stiff upper lip through it all, then we could all muddle through it.

Unfortunately his offspring do not seem to have inherited his selflessness.

MN never misses a chance to bash the Tories.

If a very old chap could make the massive effort to walk round his garden and have a stiff upper lip through it all, then we could all muddle through it.

It's much easier to be cheerful when you're wealthy, have a very large home, family around you and plenty of garden to exercise in.

Captain Tom cheered us all up and distracted us at a very stressful time

Not wanting to have a go at you personally, but no, no, he didn’t. I don’t find the elderly endearing on the grounds of them being elderly.

I am neutral about his actions but I share the cynicism of others. I don’t get the impression he was a victim in all this.

LM was from a wealthy family I thought and made her own money through photography.

No, for many of us that's not how it was at all. But as others have said, it would have taken a brave person to say that out loud at the time.

Wait for the charity commission report conclusions I guess but they do seem like grifters.