Who Is Fox-Future Education Fund
Warwick Blamey, the founder of the Fox-Future education fund, travels extensively throughout Africa. He was continually shocked and disheartened at the complete lack of and poor quality of education in the villages he encountered. It sparked in him the need to make a change and in 2021 he founded Fox-Future. The question that kept popping up was “why in this day of technology can’t a disadvantaged child in rural Africa receive a world-class education similar to children in 1st world countries?”
Fox-Future is a Non-Profit Organisation dedicated to addressing the challenging conditions surrounding quality access to education in Africa through the medium of online schooling.
Fox-Future’s goal is not only to provide access to schooling to remote areas that previously did not have this but also to be an interactive digital learning space for the whole community.
Through donations into our professionally managed fund, we are connecting students that would otherwise not have access to education, and who would not have the opportunity to complete or start their schooling careers.
How We
Make it work?
- Any viable and workable facility, is selected in a rural village.
- A Satellite with Solar Power is established close to the facility.
- Funds raised are utilized for:
- Covering online education tuition fees:
- Infrastructure, satellite, solar and security camera costs
- Data costs
- Laptop/tablet costs
- Children are selected in the rural villages to join the online school.
- The number of children onboarded is dependent on the value of funds raised.
- Classrooms consist of multiple grades of pupils all learning at the same time, by the use of headsets eliminating the surrounding noise.
- A facilitator is placed in the classroom to monitor the students.
- Online education allows learning to continue in the same manner that it would for a privileged child in an Urban area with unlimited resources.
How We
Make it work?
How Do the
satellite work?
Fox-Future “OWLS”
Warwick Blamey
Warwick started his career at Invicta Holdings before moving into private equity, then investments where he was head analyst at a leading asset management house before moving to SA. He was a partner of UK based BCMS Corporate where he was a deal maker in their M&A division focusing on Sub Saharan Africa. Warwick’s expertise is focused on investments in agriculture, manufacturing, engineering, and services industries, where he has been involved in various transactions over the past decade. Warwick holds a BCOM and an MBA from Edinburgh Business School.
Cara Hankinson
After finishing her BCOM in Economics, Cara joined Mr Price Home in 2013 as a junior Resourcer, where she got a taste of product development and the shipping industry. She knew that she wanted to explore the financial world further and in 2015 she joined Investec Private Bank as a Private Banker. While working at the Bank she completed her MBA through the University of Edinburgh. Her work and studies have helped her find her calling to want to help others. Her dream is to use the skills she has acquired to make a difference.
Adrian Knowles
Adrian is a born visionary with a strategic outlook in the information technology and services industry.
Adrian founded the entity, the satellite implementing partner, and developed the unique solution to enable data to be transmitted to the underserviced remote areas of Africa, allowing the Fox Future students to be educated via online means.
Foxfin Financial Services
12J Venture Capital Fund
Manage 7 niche private equity funds
Registered with the South African FSCA
12 businesses within the group
Foxvest Group – Social Responsibility
‘Fox-Future Education Fund’ forms part of the Foxvest Group’s social arm.
Fox-Future utilizes current resources within the group to ‘give back’ to disadvantaged communities
Foxvest Group –
Track Record
Fox-Future forms part of the Foxvest Group, who are an integrated financial services provider operating within Sub Saharan Africa. Foxvest Group have a strong track record in fund management and portfolio business.