Programme 01
The Golf Day
The Foundation's annual Golf Day is its largest single fundraiser, and the one day in the year when the people who fund the work sit down with the people who run it. The 4th Edition tees off on 19 October 2026 at Serengeti Golf Estate.
It raises money, and it is built to do something the money alone cannot. A 4-ball is four hours in company, so the day is run as a working room: a standing network of business supporters who come back each year, rather than a list of once-off donors. Sponsors take a hole, a waterhole or a full team, and meet the programmes their contribution pays for.
- Four-ball teams and hole sponsorship, each hole branded to its sponsor
- Signed football memorabilia from partner clubs, presented on the day
- Programme presentations to sponsors at the halfway house and prize-giving
- Proceeds directed to the Foundation's school programmes
Programme 02
Sports Programmes
Kit, equipment and coaching, plus a tournament that gives players a stage and keeps communities on the touchline. The Foundation is a partner of the Powerico Winter Games, which ran for four weeks in Tembisa this year, from 28 June to 25 July 2026.
- Full kit and equipment set per participating team
- Coaching clinics with accredited coaches
- The Powerico Winter Games — four weeks of fixtures, 28 June to 25 July 2026
- Talent identification days with scouting partners
Programme 03 · In development
A community hall for Tembisa
The Foundation is building a hall that will belong to the community of Tembisa — a space for church services, weddings, a feeding scheme and a place of rest.
The hall is conceived as a vital building in the life of the area: somewhere the community comes together. The Foundation’s decision to build it is part of giving back, part of recognising a need that only a hall can answer, and — most importantly — the provision of a safe space in which society can grow, and in which progressive work can be done.
- A hall the community can hire — funerals, weddings, services, meetings and gatherings
- Meals for homeless children and adults
- Overnight shelter
- A building the community can use rather than one it visits
Programme 04 · In development
Skills acquired abroad, returned to South Africa
The Foundation is developing a programme to place South African students with institutions and training providers abroad, giving them access to trades, curricula and methods of instruction not widely available locally, on the condition that the knowledge acquired is brought back to South Africa.
The programme’s value lies in the return rather than the placement itself. A student who completes training abroad and subsequently teaches what they have learned converts a single placement into a cohort of capable practitioners. It is this transfer of knowledge, and the benefit it extends to young people who have not travelled, that the Foundation regards as the programme’s principal outcome.
The structure also lends itself readily to corporate sponsorship. Each placement is discrete and separately costed, with an identified beneficiary, and the skills acquired are returned to the economy in which the sponsor operates.
- Placements with institutions and training providers abroad
- Trades, technical skills and methods of instruction not widely available in South Africa
- A formal undertaking to return and transfer the skills acquired
- Workshops and training delivered locally by returning students
Applications are not yet open. The programme is still in development. Details of how to apply, and who is eligible, will be published on this page once the first placements are confirmed.
Working together
A platform for business to meet, collaborate and build
The Foundation is a convener as much as a funder. Companies that support the work join a standing network — one that gathers around fixtures and events, and that is built to produce collaboration between partners, not only contributions to us. Sport is the setting where much of it happens, because it is the one that reliably brings everyone into the same place.
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A standing network of business
Partners return each year rather than giving once. The value is the room itself — companies meet each other, meet the programmes they fund, and find work to do together that reaches well beyond the Foundation.
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Sport as the meeting ground
A four-ball is four hours in company, and a tournament brings a whole community to the touchline. Sport gives the network a reason to gather, and an audience to gather in front of.
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Trade where the event lands
Where an event is staged, who takes the stalls and what is procured locally are deliberate decisions. A crowd brings trade, and that spending stays in the community that hosted it.
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Rooms for the harder conversations
The same convening power puts learners, parents, educators, business, sport and government in one room to work through what society is facing — in public, and across disagreement. Better societies are built in those rooms, not announced.