Spaces for Sport is a perfect example of collaboration at its best. Bring together a dream team made up of a local municipality, an international sports organization and a Non Profit Company, add a sprinkle of investment and perfect timing, and hey presto! You’ve got yourself a state-of-the-art sports facility destined to change the lives...
Rebecca Dames explains why this rare and critically endangered type of fynbos is worth protecting. Join our conversation in which we asked her all about her work with Elim Ferricrete fynbos. How did you find out about the Grootbos Foundation? It’s a funny story… There was a competition in 2015 to win a night away...
Conservation Manager, Rebecca Dames and Conservation Director of Grootbos Foundation, Sean Privett, have been working tirelessly for the last five years to protect the last remaining 5% of Elim Ferricrete fynbos found in the world. So what is Elim Ferricrete fynbos? Elim Ferricrete fynbos is a low-lying type of fynbos that grows in soils that...
The Masakhane Hub is found in the middle of the Masakhane community, alongside the Masakhane soccer field and the Good Hope ECD. This site became the home of the Overstrand Disaster Management Covid Relief programme in April 2020 which began as a collaboration of municipal, private and NGO programmes to serve the community at the...
Thank you to the friends and supporters of Grootbos Foundation. Without the investment, encouragement and generosity of each individual person, family, partner, volunteer and business, Grootbos Foundation programmes would not still be running and serving local communities. Our story is a shared human story. Thank you for walking this wonderful and winding path with us....
The Shropshire Youth Cricket Team from the United Kingdom on tour with Cape Africa Tours, visited the Spaces4Sports Facility in Gansbaai on 23 February. There they played both a cricket tournament and a friendly Under 13 soccer game against the Football Foundation in the sweltering summer heat. Two of the young boys from the UK...
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