How can you help?
1. Money
You can give with confidence when you invest in TCB. Your contribution ensures that we can keep up the good work, expand our impact, grow more entrepreneurs, reduce waste to landfills, and eradicate poverty from local families through the circular economy.
Donate now.
2. Equipment donations
Our Repair programme needs small and large appliances (fridges, freezers, microwaves, dishwashers, TVs etc.) which we can use to demo repair skills and allow participants to practice on real equipment. Our Remake programme needs sewing machines, overlockers and any equipment used in the CMT and sewing industry.
3. Retail and manufacturing partners
TCB offers retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers a national cost-effective solution to their fashion, retail and e-waste problems. We collect your excess stock from your branch or factory, sort and de-brand it, and then equip local unemployed individuals to buy and sell in their communities. In return, this helps you meet your BBBEE, Enterprise Development and environmental responsibility mandates (such as the ERP–Extended Producer Responsibility).
Contact us to become a partner or donate equipment.
Our BBBEE, Social-Economic Development & Enterprise Development, NPO and PBO status.
As a Level 1 Qualifying Small Enterprise, TCB –Taking Care of Business is aligned to the spirit of the amended BBBEE Act. We can offer companies significant points on their BBBEE scorecard thanks to our focus on growing small, black-women-owned businesses and empowering the unemployed through skills development.
✓ 100% unemployed South Africans
✓ 100% black beneficiaries
✓ 90% are black-women-owned businesses
✓ < 50% are defined as youth
✓ NPO number: 081-505-NPO
✓ PBO number: 930032046
Our Partners
The success of TCB is built on the power of strategic partnerships with all the major players in the retail sector. This unique model demonstrates what can be achieved when the non-profit and private sector collaborate in a shared value partnership. The retail business model is an imperfect system where supply and demand are very rarely matched. As a result, there will always be excess/waste or faulty products that retailers find difficult to recycle or redistribute.
TCB’s programmes gives retailers the opportunity to solve both economic and environmental problems. Our national footprint provides retailers with a simple, no-cost solution for their waste, whilst at the same time creating an opportunity for them to make a difference in the future of South Africa. Annually we receive over 2 million items worth in excess of R100m from our retail partners which is the fuel for the trading businesses our participants start.
