[6][3][7] He has been accorded numerous accolades including Member of the Order of the British Empire[8] and Business Standard Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2018.
[10] He first came to India in 1986 at the age of nineteen and worked as a volunteer with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity organisation in Calcutta when he was just out of college.
Following his graduation and a number of management positions in the UK, Matthew was posted to India in 1996, as the chief operating officer of the travel group Cox & Kings Ltd.[8] During his time at Cox & Kings, Matthew played rugby for the Indian national team[4] and was awarded international rugby caps for India and playing in the World Cup Qualifiers in 2001.
Every fortnight he hired a bus taking the rugby boys to mentor younger children from local NGOs, to a hill station or the beach.
[9] Since its inception in 1999, Magic Bus has transformed the lives of more than one million children and young people and helped them move out of poverty through its childhood to livelihood programme.