What we do

The Christian Hobbs Charity is a charity devoted to supporting amateur sports, with a passionate focus on boxing.

We aim to provide buildings, land, grants and equipment to give amateur sports clubs accommodation and equipment to support their members' participation in the sport

Our commitment extends beyond boxing to encompass broader charitable causes.

We are a charitable incorporated organisation registered with the Charity Commission in England and Wales.

Who we are

Caspar Hobbs

Caspar Hobbs served for ten years in the British Army before setting up his own media information business in 1999. He was then CEO of Pearson’s Training division, and entrepreneur in residence for Warburg Pincus.  Currently he serves as director and CEO of SWA Limited. He is a non-executive director of Tellimer Limited.  He also served from 2013 to 2022 as Chair of England Boxing and is familiar with the structures and governance of the amateur sport of boxing.

Louise Hobbs

Louise Hobbs is a Cambridge law graduate and a Solicitor of the Senior Courts, having qualified in 1995.  Her career started in Treasury Solicitors Department as a European Fast Streamer, before Mayer Brown International LLP (1998-2008), Boodle Hatfield LLP (2008-2011), Signet Partners LLP (2011-2021) and now Temple Bright LLP (since 2021).  Her area of specialism is employment law, and is currently developing expertise in Coronial law. Between 2008 and 2026 she has also served variously as a Director and/or Trustee of The Centre for Social Justice, Witham Hall School and the Scots Guards Charity, before becoming a founder Trustee of The Christian Hobbs Charity in 2025.

Isobel Hobbs

Isobel Hobbs graduated from Edinburgh University with a First Class degree in English Literature in 2024.  She works in television production.  This is her first role as a Charity Trustee.  One of her key roles as a Trustee, as Christian’s sister, is to ensure that the Charity Trustees discharge their functions and award grants in a manner consistent with Christian’s philosophy of life. 

Catriona Butler

Catriona Butler studied law at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She was called to the Bar in 1995 and has been in independent practice - specialising in family law - ever since. For many years, Catriona sat on the management committee of her previous set of chambers and was a member of the team that managed a large-scale refurbishment of its premises. In her current set, she is joint head of the pupillage committee in charge of recruitment. Catriona spent 12 years as a trustee and later Vice Chair of an educational charity.

Duncan Campbell

Duncan Campbell (now retired) was a tax practitioner with a firm of charterd accountants for many years.  He specialised in high level domestic and international taxation.  Until he retired Duncan was a member of the Socity of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).  After University, where he studied mathematics and statistics, he joined the civil service in HM Inspector of Taxes in 1975 until joining the accountancy profession in 1979.

Some years ago, he set up a charitable trust to look after the interests of profoundly handicapped children

James Codrington

James Codrington has 31 years of investment experience, having worked at Lazard Brothers, Deutsche Asset Management and Barings as an institutional investment manager.  At Barings, he was head of charities for nine years and launched and managed the Targeted Return Common Investment Fund.  He joined Rathbones in 2011 where he launched the Active Income and Growth Fund. in 2012.  He was a member of Rathbone Strategic Asset Allocation and Fixed Income Committees.  He joined Peregrine and Black in January 2026.

From 1988 to 1994 James served in the British Army.  He has an MA (First Class) in Modern History from Oxford University and is a trustee of two charities, one military, one sporting.

Hugh Nickerson

Hugh Nickerson is an Art History graduate from UEA.  In 1994, following five yers' service in the British Army, he set up Conundrum, a people advisory, HR outsourcing and executive search business which he continues to run to this day.  He was also non-executive director of Artscapes UK Ltd from 2019 to 2026.  Hugh spent 20 years as Chair of Trustees for an OSCR regulated charity which funded weekly music lessons during the school day, free of charge, across 30+ primary schools in Argyll to some 250+ children each year.  The Charity was dissolved in 2022 and since 2023 Hugh has been a director of its successor Charity carrying on the same funding of music lessons, alongside other charitable activities, with a particular focus on fundraising.