Commitment to our communities

In South Africa, our education interventions are intended to drive change that will see a greater number of disadvantaged youth produce exceptional maths and science results, make informed career decisions, access tertiary education, and pursue and complete courses in the financial sector and other critical qualifications which they may not have been able to pursue without exposure to our initiatives. Our learnership opportunities aim to address the youth unemployment in our county and we facilitate placing youth interns with our partner organisations. 

In the UK, we aim to empower young people to achieve their goals in life through the education projects we support. While we recognise the importance of academics, our community partners also focus on employability as well as life and interpersonal skills.

In South Africa, our approach is the desire to enable as many people as possible, especially the youth, to become active economic participants in society. This has a positive effect on those people, as well as their communities and society. Economically active people quickly realise a sense of contribution, worth, dignity and direction and stand a better chance of occupying their rightful place in society. We are aware of the many socio-economic challenges in South Africa, but recognise the possibilities of enabling people to become active economic participants through entrepreneurship as one of our key corporate social investment (CSI) focus areas.

In the UK, we help launch new social enterprises. The launched enterprises tackle a variety of social issues such as youth unemployment, social exclusion, food poverty, homelessness, upcycling plastics and more. Many of the entrepreneurs are female, black and of ethnic minority.

We believe that investing in biodiversity and inclusive conservation is vital to sustaining our rich wildlife and will lead to a better future for us all. As such, our approach to conservation reflects the group’s focus on climate action and inequality. 

In South Africa, we partner with specialist NPOs in conservation and education to protect critically endangered species and the environment they inhabit, by uplifting vulnerable communities living alongside national parks and reserves, promoting a clean environment through carbon-reducing initiatives, and combatting illegal wildlife trafficking, using our business systems and resources.  

The same strategy applies in the UK, where our philanthropic conservation activities focus specifically on birds of prey and vultures, through rescue, rehabilitation and rewilding, and support conservation education and community upliftment through wildlife workshops for students from schools in underprivileged and inner-city areas, reconnecting them with nature through the activities of our partners at their location in Andover.

In South Africa and the UK,  we support and encourage staff participation through our staff volunteering programme. Our people give selflessly giving of their time, money, goods and skills to support our communities.