Nicholas Peter Collingwood Maughan (born January 1980) is a British born investor and philanthropist. Maughan is the founder of the venture investment firm Maughan Capital, the Geneva-based multi-family office Little Whale Capital, and the Nick Maughan Family Foundation, a charitable organisation supporting initiatives in education, the environment, and social inclusion. He is a trustee and founder member of The

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Foundation, as well as a trustee of Tusk Trust and Dallaglio RugbyWorks. As the founder, patron, and funder, he supports various charitable projects, including

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, StreetDoctors, the Charlie Miller Football Academy, and the development of social infrastructure projects in Eastern Uganda. In the

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, Maughan was appointed a Commander of the

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(CBE) for services to philanthropy.

Early life and education

Maughan was born in

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in January 1980. He gained a degree in religion and theology at

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, followed by a master's degree in

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from

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(now Bayes Business School).

Career

Maughan began his career in 2003 as a

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and then as director of research at Tamiso & Co., a

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-based investment firm. In 2020, he established Maughan Capital, focusing on early-stage investments with environmental and social impact. The firm's portfolio includes Forests For Mines Ltd, set up to transform old coal mines into forests; Climate Solutions Exchange (CSX), which develops carbon credit platforms; and Beobia Ltd (The Bug Factory), which produces

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-based protein. Maughan Capital has also invested in technology firms such as Sen, which provides AI-enhanced satellite footage of Earth for environmental monitoring, and Infogrid, a company working on building energy efficiency through artificial intelligence. Maughan is the Chairman of Geneva-based multi-family office Little Whale Capital.

Philanthropy

In 2020, at the start of the

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, Maughan founded the Nick Maughan Family Foundation (NMF) to support projects in education, the environment, and community engagement, particularly targeting disadvantaged groups. NMF's initiative,

, offers boxing-based mentoring for young people across more than 50 locations in the UK and internationally, in collaboration with Frank Warren's Queensbury Promotions. Maughan is a former trustee of Dallaglio RugbyWorks, which supports young people outside mainstream education. Through his foundation, he funds scholarships for talented children from low-income families, as well as postgraduate scholarships for master's and PhD students. He also supports the Charlie Miller Football Academy in

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and helped fund the construction of the Waterside Centre in Newbury for the Berkshire Youth Trust. His other initiatives include backing the Fair Shot campaign with the

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and education and employment programs for at-risk youth in collaboration with the

, where he serves as a trustee. As patron Maughan has supported first-aid training for over 25,000 young people via British charity StreetDoctors. He is also patron of the medical research charity Womb Transplant U.K. As a trustee of Tusk Trust, Maughan has contributed to wildlife conservation efforts in Africa. He made an initial £1m donation to Tusk Trust, matched all donations up to £150,000 made to Tusk through

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' Annual Christmas Appeal, sponsors the annual Tusk Wildlife Ranger Award (presented by the charity's royal patron,

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), and funds the Tusk Conservation Symposium. Maughan funds infrastructure projects in Eastern Uganda through the Nick Maughan Family Foundation. These include the Nick Maughan Maternity Centre, reportedly the largest such facility in the region, as well as the NMF Riverside School and the NMF IT Centres. He is also a patron of Spotlight on Africa, a development charity active in the area.

References

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