A publicist who says she helped to launch the Captain Tom Foundation feels she was “cut out” by his household weeks after she labored on one of the uplifting tales through the pandemic.
Daisy Souster mentioned she helped the Ingram-Moore household with their preliminary public relations when there was “no PR plan” in place.
Ms Souster, 31, claimed she wrote the “life-changing press release”, arrange the fundraising web page, and ran the Captain Tom Twitter (now X) web page when the story broke of the conflict veteran strolling 100 laps of his backyard in April 2020 to boost cash for the NHS.
Sir Tom went on to boost greater than £38m for the well being service because it battled towards the coronavirus disaster and his household arrange the Captain Tom Foundation charity in June 2020.
After an preliminary “special time” working for the household, Ms Souster mentioned in a LinkedIn put up that her relationship with them all of a sudden stopped for causes “unknown” to her.
She wrote: “I had to cut ties with the family when they cut me out and told me I was no longer able to talk about the work I had done.
“I wish to make it very clear that originally, the household had been extraordinarily supportive of me and grateful for all that I had carried out, however for causes unknown to me, they modified.”
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The publicist, who supplied PR companies to the household’s agency Maytrix, had been nominated for a number of awards and had knowledgeable the household of the information.
She mentioned the Ingram-Moores “told me to go for it and would be on my table cheering me on”.
Yet, every week later, she claimed Captain Tom’s daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, informed her she had “no right” to speak about her work or involvement with the PR.
After this, Ms Souster mentioned she “severed ties with the family”.
She mentioned the abrupt swap in angle by the household induced her “untold distress” as she started to see the credit score for her work “taken away” from her.
“Let’s be honest I’m unlikely to ever break a story like that again. It was truly one of a kind – and it certainly should have remained a positive, incredible one at that,” she mentioned.
Ms Souster mentioned she had “no involvement” with them or the Captain Tom Foundation after the veteran’s one hundredth birthday.
Sir Tom died in February 2021 as a centenarian.
Shortly after his loss of life, the Charity Commission opened a probe into the inspiration arrange in his identify.
The charity, which has run for over three years, is more likely to shut down following the investigation into its administration after a listening to to resolve the destiny of an unauthorised spa at his daughter’s house was heard.
Meanwhile, Mrs Ingram-Moore admitted preserving £800,000 from the three books Sir Tom wrote earlier than he died – regardless of the prologue of one among them saying the cash would go to the charity in his identify.
She mentioned it was what her father wished.
Sky News has contacted the Ingram-Moore household for remark.
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