About
The Nick Maughan Family Foundation
About the Foundation
The Nick Maughan Family Foundation (NMF) was founded at the start of the pandemic in 2020. Its purpose is to widen opportunity for young people who start life with the least, preserve our natural environment and serve the communities it can most benefit. It works in the United Kingdom, The Bahamas, across Africa and elsewhere around the world.
NMF has four pillars.
- Sport.To use sport to reach young people at risk of exclusion, violence and homelessness, and to give them routes into education, training and work.
- Education.To narrow the gap in education between rich and poor.
- Communities.To strengthen the communities it can most benefit, from young people facing homelessness and violence in the UK to mothers and newborns in Eastern Uganda.
- Environment.To protect wildlife and our natural world.
NMF is privately funded by Nick Maughan and does not accept donations. It is established with a donor-advised fund at NPT UK, a registered charity in England and Wales (charity number 1181128).
Most of the Foundation's awards are made directly by its founder, to minimise administrative costs.
The founder
Nick Maughan CBE
Nick Maughan CBE is a British-born Bahamian philanthropist. He was born in London in 1980. He first studied Religion and Theology at the University of Manchester and then a master's degree in Investment Management from Cass Business School, now Bayes Business School. In his early twenties he moved to New York, where he worked as a researcher developing automated trading systems for the financial markets. He later built technology businesses with a particular focus on AI applications. He has long made his home in The Bahamas.
He founded NMF in 2020 to give structure to his lifetime of charitable interests and to provide a platform for future generations. He now spends most of his time on NMF and its partner charities. The rest goes on research into big-data AI applications and on overseeing the Geneva based multi-family office Little Whale Capital, which he chairs.
He co-founded BoxWise with his childhood friend Rick Ogden MBE DL and sits on its board. BoxWise was designed in a single gym in Brixton and is now delivered by England Boxing coaches at more than one hundred locations. Its people and its well-rounded syllabus now help shape youth boxing in the UK, in The Bahamas and in the other countries where BoxWise has worked.
In Nassau he chairs the Bahamas Boxing Academy, which he founded in 2025. He funded the construction of its site and oversaw the work personally. His community projects in Uganda include a large maternity hospital and IT training centres.
He is a trustee of the UK's leading African wildlife conservation charity Tusk and of the Centre for Social Justice Foundation. He is the patron of StreetDoctors, Spotlight on Africa and Womb Transplant UK.
Nick was awarded a CBE at Buckingham Palace by King Charles III in the 2024 Birthday Honours for services to philanthropy.
