Our Donors and Sponsors

"The success of Penreach lies in its organic and participatory structure. The project has developed from the bottom up, with the full participation and involvement of both educators and school communities. This has had an impact at all levels of activity, fostering the programme’s whole-school approach and firmly establishing ownership for all participants. We became involved with Penreach because it had people and a community that were not only talking about the problems in the community with regard to education but doing something about it. We had a success story to follow. Penreach is about voluntary involvement from the community, educators, parents, the business community."
Paul Harris, CEO First Banking Group and Chairman of the Penryn Trust

Funding for Penreach comes from corporate South Africa mainly, with growing interest from offshore organisations and foundations.

Mr Paul Harris of FirstRand Limited (pictured top-right), chairs the Penryn Trust, which is the financial custodian of Penryn College and Penreach. ABSA Foundation, Barloworld Trust, FirstRand Foundation (RMB fund), JET Stores, Nedbank Foundation, Pick 'n Pay, Sugar Industry Trust Fund, and SAPPI are currently the primary sponsors of the Penreach programme but there are other valued donors whose contributions to the overall programme are greatly appreciated and very necessary. Some donors offer funding for specific projects within the Penreach operation so that their name is linked to that particular project whilst others offer funding to the Penreach programme as a whole.

The current annual Penreach budget currently stands at R4,3 million, which is a sizeable sum to raise each year. Penreach relies on the generosity of its donors as it works in poor communities with little or no resources of their own.

Besides acknowledging the valuable support of its major donors on this page, the Penryn Trust would also like to express its ongoing appreciation to other organisations and individuals whose ongoing interest and support Penreach is able to achieve outstanding progress in the development of an ethos of best practice in education through its many programmes aimed at developing and assisting educators, their learners, their schools, their communities.

Barloworld have generously donated a Landrover Defender to the Penreach programme. On a daily basis, the Penreach fieldworkers go out to the partner schools in an advisory capacity, for cluster meetings or for mini-workshops. Some of the schools are on appalling roads, so it is with gratitude that a vehicle to cope with these roads has been acquired.

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For more information contact us on
+27 13 758 9060
Fax
+27 13 758 9010

Email
info@penreach.co.za