Impact Reports
2025: A Year of Purposeful Progress
Supporting the Cape Wine Auction Trust is an opportunity to transform lives in the South African Winelands. Since 2014, more than R135 million has been raised, benefiting almost 50 organisations across 13 regions.
In 2025, the Cape Wine Auction Trust continued its commitment to creating meaningful, measurable impact in education across the Cape Winelands.
With the support of donors, partners, and the wine community, the Trust funded 18 partner organisations, ensuring that 100% of funds raised reached education initiatives where they are needed most.
Grounded in research and collaboration, our work remains focused on breaking the cycle of generational poverty through quality education, from early childhood through to youth development.
2025 was a good year and so much progress was made. We believe that large-scale, meaningful change is more possible now than ever before and with your help we can achieve it.
What does the Cape Wine Auction Trust do?
Impactful Education Funding
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- 100% of funds raised go to carefully selected education initiatives in the Cape Winelands.
- All contributions empower us to support life-changing projects focused on breaking the poverty cycle.
- Research shows quality education, from cradle to career, is the most effective way to end generational poverty.
- We partner for change, collaborating with key education stakeholders: children, teachers, NGOs, donors, academics, and innovators.
- We have built a Community of Partners to amplify impact across the region.
- We encourage continuous learning: testing, measuring, and improving education initiatives.
Addressing Key Barriers to Education
Nutrition Support
- 1 220 children received 266 760 nutritious meals at 46 Pre-School and After-School Programmes.
“The children enjoy the food – they make sure their plates are empty. The food is easy to cook and the school saves money for other needs. I no longer go
to the stores like before. We have employed two staff members and added new zinc sheets for the roof.” – Monica Nqwita, Principal Ukusiza Creche
Digital Learning
- Through the CWA Trust’s support of Click Learning, 8 000 learners benefit from digital literacy programmes in 23 schools and after-school centres.
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Psycho-Social Support
- Focus on mental health through school and community-based counselling programs.
- Significant impact in helping children deal with personal loss and trauma.
2025 Highlights: The incredible Difference You’re Making
Anna Foundation
“Strengthening a learner’s number sense, much like teaching a child to read, requires a teacher to do individual or small group work at the learner’s level of proficiency. It is quite an art and fully qualified teachers spend years perfecting it. In an effort to make it as easy as possible for our facilitators to implement, we’ve developed a range of maths games that can be used by the facilitators in small groups or with individual learners. It can also be played by groups of learners independent of the facilitator. The games are all aimed at improving knowledge of place value, number sense, one digit addition and subtraction, fraction recognition and times tables.” – Marike Pieterse and Celine Garstman, Education Project Managers.
Robertson, Worcester, Bonnievale: 211 Learners,
Rawsonville: 152 Learners, Grabouw: 186 Learners,
Boland: 338 Learners)
Pebbles HEAEP
The Pebbles’ Hemel-en-Aarde Education Project (HEAEP) was launched with seed funding from the Cape Wine Auction Trust. This project continues to flourish and
supports disadvantaged children and families in these agricultural communities through staff training, Early Childhood Development and after-school programming,
and family support.
The Early Childhood Development Centre:
Ages: 3 months – 5 years
Total number of learners: 30
Number of practitioners: 4
The Pebbles Project
“The ECD Special Educational Needs (SEN) Programme continues to provide vital support to learners facing barriers to education. Beneficiaries identified by practitioners as experiencing learning difficulties receive tailored individual sessions, where they are assessed by our qualified staff to determine their specific needs. In addition to one-on-one support, the programme also includes group sessions that encourage collaborative learning. To enhance the support provided, staff have
received further training on incorporating LEGO into SEN strategies, offering a creative and effective approach to engage learners and help them overcome educational challenges.”
The Pebbles Early Childhood Development (ECD) Programme:
Age group: 2.5 – 5 years
Number of beneficiaries: 331
Number of practitioners: 36
Aitsa Aftercare
(Kylemore: 265 learners)
“At the conclusion of Q2, 6 out of the 12 children were discharged from therapy due to their significant progress. By the end of Q3, an additional 3 children from the original group of 12 were also discharged from therapy. In their place, other Grade R children who were identified as “red or orange” during the initial evaluation in term one were added to the therapy sessions, allowing me to continue working with 12 children in groups of 4 each week this term. Teacher Rozaan and I maintain weekly communication, and I share WhatsApp links and ideas for enhancing classroom stimulation tailored to this group, such as techniques for improving pencil grip and activities that promote midline crossing, as these are essential for their development.” – Lanese Knipe, Aitsa Occupational Therapist
Legacy Centre
(Kayamandi, Stellenbosch: 110 Learners)
“During the afternoons, a part of the Legacy Centre is transformed into an afterschool programme for 110 learners between Grade 1 and 7. The learners come to us after school, receive lunch in a friendly environment and take part in 45-minute sessions from 15:15 until 16:45 for the foundation phase and 17:30 for the senior phase. Three modules (Khulani-Learn, Khulani-Move, and Khulani-Homework) help our learners with literacy, specifically in English which is not their mother tongue. iKamva@Legacy is a programme for 50 high school learners where various modules support them to become confident, honest leaders and advocates for justice. It is based on the premise that the building of an accountable generation, that will take responsibility for their own future, is the best way to bring real change and hope to the community. The modules 0f iKamva are IT Skills, Ukusebenza, Siyafunda, Leadership, and Focus on Grade 12.”
(Jamestown, Stellenbosch: 96 Learners)
“The aftercare programme partnered with LightOn Education who presented a workshop to both parents and facilitators. The aim was to provide fun, educational, and informative activities and tools in raising and equipping children. Parents and facilitators were empowered and educated to use everyday household items and turn them into educational and stimulating items when engaging with their children.” – Arnold Okkers, Executive Director
The Breede Centre
(McGregor: 50 Learners)
“This programme, using stories, reading, arts, crafts, music, games, cycling, camps and sport as tools, aims to build on the eagerness of children 4 to 14 years old to learn, to positively encourage and motivate them in all their various expressions, so that they grow up to love learning and doing, with a strong self-image, with dreams for a future and the resilience to achieve it. All programmes are led by youth leaders who are young local people employed and trained to lead and be role models for the children. On occasion, skilled teachers offer their time and expertise We offer the afternoon activities throughout the year and a full-day holiday programme during the school holidays.”
Your Continued Support: Reimagining the Future
Join us on this journey of transformation. Together, we are getting closer to a future where every child in the Cape Winelands has access to quality education along with the support they need to achieve their goals.
Thank you for your generosity!
Andi Norton
Cape Wine Auction Trust Facilitator