SAB Foundation Tholoana Enterprise Programme 2025 – YOA

Deadline: September 8, 2025

Applications are open for the SAB Foundation Tholoana Enterprise Programme 2025. The Tholoana Enterprise Programme helps entrepreneurs to change into profitable and resilient enterprise house owners by in depth entrepreneurial expertise improvement, mentorship and entry to markets, finance and sensible enterprise instruments and templates.

Upon acceptance, members will bear a complete journey of self-evaluation, purpose setting, and strategic development planning tailor-made to their enterprise wants. The programme gives inclusive wrap-round help, together with psychological well being help, to assist entrepreneurs obtain their full potential.

The programme is without doubt one of the only a few supporters of rural companies and companies which can be exterior of main provide chains. Although one of many objectives is to help these companies in accessing company provide chains, usually in addition they present items and providers to geographic areas through which they had been beforehand unavailable.

With this programme, they put money into entrepreneurs – with a selected emphasis on ladies, youth, folks residing in rural areas and individuals with disabilities – who present the potential and dedication to develop a enterprise and create jobs. This is completed by a structured, two-yr enterprise help programme, seed-funding and aiding with entry to markets.

Benefits

• Leadership improvement: Successful companies are constructed on a mixture of enterprise expertise, private expertise and management expertise. They comply with this holistic strategy and place as a lot concentrate on management improvement and confidence-constructing as all the opposite aspects of the programme.
• Practical expertise improvement: Five dynamic workshops type an essential part of the programme and attendance at these classes is obligatory. The displays are sensible and facilitated by skilled entrepreneurs, and the matters embrace Personal Transformation and Strategic Planning, Costing and Pricing, Sales and Marketing, Human Resource Management and Accounting and Financial Management for Small Businesses.
• Mentoring and training: Participants have entry to a private mentor for as much as 4 hours monthly. In addition to the mentor, ongoing help and steering from portfolio coordinators and the programme supervisor is on supply. Targeted consulting help together with technical specialists, course of engineering, compliance help and funding readiness are additionally on supply.
• Online info classes: A variety of on-line info sharing classes will happen over the course of the programme. These classes contribute to information sharing, expertise constructing and peer studying and networking.
• Market readiness interventions: All kinds of bespoke market readiness interventions can be found for enterprise leaders to pick from in alignment with their market readiness wants together with model constructing, gross sales and advertising instruments, media alternatives, and many others.
• Access to assets: Participants can have entry to assets within the fields of laws and compliance, enterprise improvement, market entry, entry to finance and media relations.
• Performance monitoring: The monitoring and analysis of enterprise information permits the workforce to establish particular person challenges that require help interventions. This information additionally permits the Tholoana Enterprise Programme workforce to trace the efficiency, giving an outline that exhibits your efficiency in relation to your friends. Financial info, administration accounts and jobs information are submitted on a month-to-month foundation.
• Peer-to-peer group and networking: In addition to the networking alternatives facilitated on the workshops, a digital peer-to-peer platform allows members to share info, collaborate and talk about frequent challenges. Active participation in peer group actions is required.
• Financial Management Support: Effective monetary administration is essential to the success of any enterprise, but it is a component of enterprise administration that almost all entrepreneurs discover overwhelming. The Tholoana Programme has curated a sequence of Financial Interventions that may guarantee our entrepreneurs are financially savvy, assured and funding prepared

Eligibility

Entrepreneurs Eligibility

• The applicant needs to be resilient, self-motivated and pushed to succeed.
• The applicant ought to present a willingness to be taught, develop and alter.
• The applicant ought to present entrepreneurial and management talents.
• The applicant is concerned within the every day operations and administration of the enterprise on a full-time foundation and isn’t employed by some other organisation.
• The applicant is a South African citizen.
• The applicant has the talents and expertise crucial for the kind of enterprise they’re engaged in.
• The applicant is on the lookout for enterprise help, mentorship and expertise coaching to take their enterprise to the subsequent degree.
• The applicant is dedicated to full participation within the programme over the18-month interval.
• The applicant is open to alter and prepared to drive new methods to help the expansion of their enterprise.
• The applicant has excessive ethical and moral requirements and a want to contribute to the economic system of South Africa.

Business Eligibility

• The enterprise is no less than 51% black-owned and managed.
• The enterprise creates jobs.
• The enterprise is within the early phases of development.
• The enterprise is operational and has been buying and selling for no less than 12 months.
• The enterprise needs to be a going concern, commercially sustainable and viable.
• The enterprise is headquartered and registered (if relevant), inside South African borders.

In addition, they’re eager to establish enterprises with lengthy-time period development and good job creation potential. This contains enterprises with export potential and/or import substitution, in addition to ones in development sectors together with agriculture, manufacturing, expertise, agro-processing, actual property, finance, mining and transport and many others.

Application

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For extra info, go to Tholoana Enterprise Programme.