Shaw Foundation

Our History

The Shaw Foundation was given its name in 2012, before that it operated as a not-for-profit care home and community hospital business as a spin off from The Secondary Housing Association for Wales (SHAW) which was developed some years earlier in 1986.
Founded by Jeremy Nixey, SHAW created ten new Housing Associations in Wales and at one stage was developing a fifth of all new social Housing in Wales. Shaw was asked by the NHS to develop and then to manage a small specialist care home. Other NHS orders followed and Shaw won many tenders to develop and operate care homes and hospitals for Councils and the NHS.
In 2006 Jeremy led the management buy-out of the business to form a new company, Shaw Healthcare Group Ltd.

The buy-out price became the cash endowment for The Shaw Foundation and a new path as a provider of grants and commercial loans to people, groups and organisations operating in the Health and Social Sector across Wales.