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Captain Sir Tom Moore: Day planned to empower older people.​

Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter hopes to start an annual fundraising event like Children In Need but which aims to empower older people.​


Watched his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore on BBC Breakfast this morning, what an incredible woman, very inspirational.

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More can be found on this here Captain Sir Tom Moore: Day planned to empower older people - BBC News
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Whilst it sounds like a lovely idea, I’d much prefer us to not have to raise money all the time to help people to exist.

What happens when all 365 days have a fund raiser attached to them.

Then what?
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Totally agree, however unfortunately that's the world we live in. It's up to us all to try to change that and things like this hope to keep it in peoples minds that there is a problem with older people being isolated from society - bizarre when you think about it, all the life experience and knowledge people end up with as they get older just seems to get wasted.

What I thought was a great idea for this was the Captain Tom Innovation award that hopes to encourage tech/engineering companies to develop tech and solutions that older people can use to become more inclusive, with 1 in 4 of us being over 65 by 2030 you'd think this would be a huge market for companies.

One of the comments made by his daughter about how Captain Tom used gadgets and tech but they were all a bit rubbish, he used a gadget that helped him put his socks on but it was a bit hard to use and a bit fiddly, also a gadget that he used to help him fasten his shirt buttons, again a bit crap.

Can't be hard to make this stuff really, and here's an idea, employ older people to help design and test the stuff
 
knuckles said:
Totally agree, however unfortunately that's the world we live in. It's up to us all to try to change that and things like this hope to keep it in peoples minds that there is a problem with older people being isolated from society - bizarre when you think about it, all the life experience and knowledge people end up with as they get older just seems to get wasted.

What I thought was a great idea for this was the Captain Tom Innovation award that hopes to encourage tech/engineering companies to develop tech and solutions that older people can use to become more inclusive, with 1 in 4 of us being over 65 by 2030 you'd think this would be a huge market for companies.

One of the comments made by his daughter about how Captain Tom used gadgets and tech but they were all a bit rubbish, he used a gadget that helped him put his socks on but it was a bit hard to use and a bit fiddly, also a gadget that he used to help him fasten his shirt buttons, again a bit crap.

Can't be hard to make this stuff really, and here's an idea, employ older people to help design and test the stuff
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I can’t disagree with any of that. I just wish we had governments that would enact such things.
 
One of the biggest incentives that we should be pushing would be one of respect for older people, society IMO has turned their backs on the older generation in many instances. I'm not saying that all old people are angels they are not but they seem to be fair game and it's open season on the lack of understanding.

I had a bad experience at the opticians (Called me for an eye test) and because of this Covid I wore a mask and the optician wore a mask, I am profoundly deaf and can't hear without lip reading so I asked if the optician could shout instructions. The optician for some reason became annoyed at me because I wouldn't/couldn't follow instructions so I just got up walked out and flounced out of the shop.

This type of stuff doesn't cost money to rectify, it just takes awareness and a bit of human decency.
 
Would wish she'd f&ck off, she is like shit in a field. Another opportunist making money off the back of the pandemic.
 
Maybe I’m missing something but just read this in the piece :-
The Charity Commission, which is an independent, non-ministerial government department, said: "We have been in ongoing contact with the trustees of the Captain Tom Foundation on its set-up and governance arrangements and as part of this work will now assess the charity's recently submitted accounts."
It said it had an open regulatory compliance case into the charity, but that did not mean it had made any finding of wrongdoing.
 
Dirty Harry said:
Maybe I’m missing something but just read this in the piece :-
The Charity Commission, which is an independent, non-ministerial government department, said: "We have been in ongoing contact with the trustees of the Captain Tom Foundation on its set-up and governance arrangements and as part of this work will now assess the charity's recently submitted accounts."
It said it had an open regulatory compliance case into the charity, but that did not mean it had made any finding of wrongdoing.
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Correct, they have thus far not found any wrongdoing but the accounts have only been out a few days. The eye brow raiser is that they spent over £126k on consultancy fees for fundraising. They mention using The philanthropic company but it doesn’t indicate if that was their invoice in full that makes it up.

The other bits about spending £37k on setup costs including £5k for the website and £500 for photos and the such all going to the family I don’t think is a problem. They might have been a bit heavy with the prices but they aren’t crazy and it all needed setting up at the outset so folks could give.

Hopefully no wrong doing is uncovered because it would be a terrible end to his legacy. I don’t see the BBC running a story like this - against a so called “national treasure” -unless there was something to question.
 
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