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THE SPORTS TRUST
Presentation to The Portfolio Committee on
Sport and Recreation
04 November 2009
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Vision

• Building active communities through sport and
  recreation.

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Mission Statement

• The Sports Trust will increase access to and
  create opportunities for all South Africans to
  participate in sport through the provision of
  equipment and facilities and we will help to
  create a new sporting tradition for our
  democratic society.

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Background

• A private sector initiative, spearheaded by
  Nedbank who solicited the partnership of Sun
  International, SuperSport, FNB and sought
  endorsement from late Minister Steve Tshwete
• Minister embraced and endorsed the initiative and
  committed Department of Sport and Recreation as a
  partner
• This was followed by the endorsement of macro
  sport bodies and selected national sports
  federations
• Main objects Developing sport across all
  disciplines and all levels in South Africa with a
  special focus on sport infrastructure and
  equipment for disadvantaged communities
• Trust registered with Master of High Court, Trust
  No IT2741/92
• In excess of R42,5 Million spent on over 240
  projects from 1995 to date

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Organizational structure
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Current Trustees

• Private Sector Nedbank, Sun International,
  SuperSport, Coca-Cola, SAB and Harmony
• Sports Trustees UCBSA, SARU, SAFA, ASA, PGA
  Sunshine Tour Southern Africa
• Government Macro sports bodies SRSA and SASCOC
  Disability Desk

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Trustee Benefits

• Member of a worthy cause ST CSI arm of Trustee
• Focus on previously disadvantaged communities
• Leverage off the good of The Sports Trust brand
• Actively involved in decision making processes
• Partnership projects e.g. Nedbank Cycling
  Programme
• Exposure on SuperSport
• Composite Signage Board at sports facilities
• Acknowledgement on all ST printed materials
• Sec 18 A Tax Certificate tax deductible
  certificates for donations

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Trustee Membership

• Membership entails
• R3 million over 3 years
• 1st Year - First R1million into Seed Capital
• 2nd Year - Million into projects
• 3rd Year Million into projects
• Affinity programme annual contribution of R500
  000
• Build The Sports Trust brand

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Other Donors

• Sports Recreation SA
• 2006 - R250 000 for transformation
• 2007 - R250 000 - partnered with The Star CPF
  Programme in Alexandra
• Street Soccer tournament for idle youth
• 456 youth participated in the tournament from
  13th Sept to 10th Nov
• Other smaller sponsors joined resulted in
• MVP player R10 000 sports bursary to study at
  Boston City Campus
• 20 of the best players received basic computer
  training
• R250 000 plus R50 000 from The Sports Trust grant
  allocated to upgrade the Eastbank Recreation
  Centres multi-purpose court (netball,
  basketball, 7-a-side soccer), fencing and
  pavillions
• 2008 R300 000 - partnership with The Star CPF
  Programme to continue in Randburg
• Rugby tournament is being held for the youth from
  February to September 2009 with 300 participants
• Upgraded 3 courts 2 x combi courts for tennis,
  volleyball, basketball and 5-a-side soccer and 1
  x court for 7-a-side rugby
• 2009 R500 000 partnership with The Star CPF
  Programme (R300 000) upgrading of swimming pool
  at Willowridge High School (R200 000).
• Implementation to start upon receipt of funds

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Other Donors continues

• National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund
• Allocates grants to The Sports Trust for specific
  communities on an adhoc basis
• 2004/5 - received R737 500 for the purchase of
  sports equipment benefiting the BSRP facilities
• 2005/6 received R2 million for the purchase of
  sports equipment for BSRP facilities
• Late 2007/8 received a grant of R2,5 million
  for application submitted in 2006 for the
  establishment/upgrading of 6 community facilities
  to the value of R1,250 000 benefiting the
  provinces of LP, GP, MP, KZN, EC WC and the
  balance of R1,250 000 for equipment for the BSRP
  facilities located in EC, FS, GP, KZN, MP, NC
  WC
• 2008/9 to receive a grant of R6, 3 million
  benefiting community projects in 5 provinces
  namely WC, NC, GP, LP NW of which
• 6 x sports infrastructure and 2 x various sports
  equipment
• 2009/10 submitted an application for community
  projects located in 5 provinces to the value of
  R5, 6 million benefiting community projects in6
  provinces namely LP, GP, MP, KZN, EC WC of
  which
• 9 x sports infrastructure and 4 x various sports
  equipment

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Project Partnerships

• Praxley
• to establish a golf infrastructure at Kwadeda
  High School in Soweto
• Sponsorship of the tin on the squash court at the
  Jarvis Kaplan Cup giving The Trust great TV
  exposure on the SuperSport Channel.
• Harmony Gold
• To upgrade sports facilities at Wedela and Kokosi
  communities in Merafong Municipality, NWP
• Sponsorship to print The Sports Trust annual
  report in August.
• A donation towards staging The Sports Trust
  Sports Quiz evening on 14 October
• 2010 Fifa World Cup Organising Committee Legacy
  Department
• The Trust agreed in principle to partner with the
  supply of soccer equipment at the 27 facilities
  to be built.
• Sports Ambassadors
• The Trust in discussions with various sports
  stars to act as its ambassadors

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COMMUNICATIONS PARTNERS

• SuperSport
• Radio 2000 specific project partnership
• National Community Radio Forum ad hoc
• Print Media Touchline Media ad hoc

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Funding Criteria

• General Projects
• Sports infrastructure upgrading or building of
  sports facilities
• Sports equipment across all disciplines
• Criteria
• Previously disadvantaged community
• Actively involved in sport or use sport as medium
  to address issues of national importance to
  achieve positive outcomes
• Facilities
• all stakeholder endorsements e.g. community
  sports centre/traditional authority/local
  municipality/sports structures
• Maintenance and sustainability plans
• Establishment of a Community Mini Trust
  comprising of all the stakeholders including the
  local municipality tasked with the management of
  the facility
• Ownership by community stakeholders
• Endorsements by national sports stakeholders
  SRSA, MECs for sport, national sports
  federations and National Lotteries Board

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Funding Criteria continues

• The Sports Trust Discretionary Fund
• Bi-monthly allocation
• Individual or community club requests e.g. pair
  of running shoes, netball kit, etc not exceeding
  R2,500 per individual or structure
• Posted letters and fax requests entertained
• ST DOES NOT FUND
• TRAVEL
• ACCOMMODATION
• CAPACITY BUILDING COURSES
• AFFILIATION FEES

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Application Process

• Reactive process communities make application
• Limited resources prevents ST from embarking on
  national call for applications
• ST mostly markets itself in community
  newspapers and word of mouth
• Annually in the region of 245 applications
• Reaching communities from all 9 provinces
• No applications from a specific province ST
  concerted effort to ensure province benefits in
  next funding cycle
• Same applies to sport for disabled communities

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Daveyton Golf Club

• 9-hole golf course located in the heart of
  Daveyton township
• 250 members of which 15 junior golfers are
  registered with the club
• Local Municipality together with Daveyton Golf
  Committee responsible for maintenance to ensure
  long-term sustainability
• Facility valued at R900 000 of which Sports Trust
  sponsored R650 000

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Centocow Community Sports Association

• identified as the sports hub for the surrounding
  38 villages with more than 20 000 learners
• Multi-purpose courts catering for netball,
  volleyball, basketball and tennis
• Vibrant men's soccer league with 26 soccer teams
  participating
• Other active codes of sport karate and boxing
• Facility utilized by other communities of Sisonke
  District
• Centocow Catholic Mission and Sports Association
  responsible for maintenance and sustainability
• Facility valued at R660 000

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Mosselbay

• Located in Kwa-Nonqaba township, outside of
  Mosselbay in the Western Cape
• Multi-purpose sport complex  providing facilities
  for 20 different sports ranging from basketball,
  karate, gymnastics, hockey, etc
• 16 schools and 43 clubs are associated with the
  sports board and utilise the facilities
• Plays host to many other community activities
  resulting in sustainability
• Local Municipality responsible for the
  maintenance of the facility
• Facility valued at R2, 5 million

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Ngumbela Park Cricket Academy

• Located in Healdtown in the Eastern Cape with a
  vibrant cricket community
• Cricket facility benefiting schools and community
  clubs of the 17 villages
• Focal point of the community hosting cricket,
  other sporting codes and community activities
  resulting in sustainability
• Local Municipality together with Cricket Club
  responsible for maintenance
• Facility valued at  R1,5 million

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Hanyani Thomo High School - Giyani

• School located in Giyani, Limpopo with no proper
  cricket facilities and equipment
• Cricket most dominant sport in the villages
• Sports Trust sponsored mobile cricket unit to
  benefit the 140 rural schools in Giyani
• Collaborated with Limpopo Cricket Academy and
  UCBSA which offers scholarships to development
  players such as Dennis Maluleke
• Equipment valued at R40 000

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Sport for the Disabled

• The Sports Trust provided wheelchairs to
  disability sports South Africa for athletes from
  the Northern Cape, North West and Central
  Gauteng valued at R160 000 to promote wheelchair
  rugby.
• The Sports Trust installed a multi-purpose floor
  at The Nondlini Community Sports Centre in
  Inchanga for wheelchair basketball, netball and
  table tennis valued at R250 000.
• The Sports Trust provided 10 x basketball
  wheelchairs to the University of Limpopos
  basketball team valued at R68 400.
• The Sports Trust installed a specialised floor at
  the Mandeville Sports Complex and is receiving
  great coverage on SuperSport that televises the
  Wheelchair Basketball League.

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Community Development Fund

• Limited fund established to address the needs of
  individuals, clubs, communities, etc that have
  exhausted all other avenues of raising the
  necessary funds to participate in local and or
  international tournaments and or for the supply
  of sports equipment and kit.
• The Sports Trust evaluates, follows due process
  of ascertaining if event is endorsed by the
  national federation, whether any other donors are
  making contributions, thereafter a donation is
  made or sports equipment and kit purchased for
  the said applicant.

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2008/2009 Financials

• Income Received excluding interest       
  R5638974  
• Made up from affinity products established by
  founding members of The Sports Trust, grants from
  SRSA, the NLDTF, donations and fundraising
• Interest Received  R2336084
• (Note that interest covered Operating Expenses)
• Total Income                                      
              R7975058
• Operating Expenses                                
        R1914790
• Fundraising Expenses                              
        R  854485
• Total Expenditure                                 
           R2769275
• Excess of income over expenditure        
  R5205783
• From which Projects Sponsored               
  R4657129
• (Note difference of R548,654.00 transferred to
  Reserve Fund)
• Reserve Funds                                     
                    R17200000

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ROLE OF PCSR

• Abbreviation PCSR means Portfolio Committee on
  Sport and Recreation
• Ambassadors
• Speak of the Trust to all platforms i.e.
  companies, government, media, other donors,
  embassies, community structures, sports stars,
  etc
• Attend Sports Trust community project handovers
  where possible leverage the PCSR and the Sports
  Trust cause
• Opportunity - Introduce the Sports Trust to
  influential business/government/
• embassies/donors, etc people with the
  purpose of them joining our cause
• Attend such initial meeting/s with the Sports
  Trust representative/s
• Benefits
• Such a partnership will create exposure for both
  our structures
• An increment in income able to reach more
  people create sustainability

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Conclusion

• The contributions received from our Trustees and
  from the donors listed greatly assist The Sports
  Trust in achieving its vision and mission of
  building active communities through sport and
  recreation by providing those communities with
  sports infrastructure and/or equipment.
• Needs are still great greater financial support
  from SRSA and NLB and sponsors will enable The
  Sports Trust to assist Government in reducing the
  backlog
• The Sports Trust believes in the co-ordination of
  sports development to achieve greater results
  follows consultative process with sports
  stakeholders
• The Sports Trust focuses on rural areas as well
  as Governments transformation objectives
• The Sports Trust and Sport and Recreation SA in
  discussions to formalise a strategic plan of
  addressing the dire needs of grass roots
  communities in a more co-ordinated manner for the
  future.