Captain Tom’s garden legacy

THE family of Captain Sir Tom Moore have officially opened the new garden of a children’s hospice, which was created with the help of a “significant” donation from the charity set up as part of his legacy.

The Second World War veteran captured the nation’s imagination with his fundraising at the height of the first coronavirus lockdown last year as he set out to walk 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday.

He raised £38.9 million for the NHS, including Gift Aid, with the money given to NHS Charities Together.

Before his death on February 2 this year, he and his family set up the Captain Tom Foundation with the motto of “inspiring hope where it is needed most”.

Captain Tom’s family officially opened the garden at Helen and Douglas House, in Oxford, yesterday.

His daughter Hannah IngramMoore said it was “sensational” to see the finished garden and that her father “would have loved it”.

JACOB KING Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore alongside his grandchildren Benjie Ingram-Moore and Georgia Ingram-Moore during the official opening of the new garden

Captain Sir Tom Moore