Partnerships

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Safe-Hub brings community-based organisations and global best practice together under one roof — a platform already operating in twenty communities across five countries.
Four ways to partner
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Why partner with Safe-Hub

No organisation overcomes inequality alone

Collaboration is central to everything we do. Safe-Hub brings community-based organisations and global best practice together under one roof, where they form an ecosystem that enables social and economic development. Partners do not fund a programme in isolation — they join a platform that is already operating in twenty communities across five countries.
Founded in Khayelitsha in 2007 and now an award-winning platform for collective impact, Safe-Hub offers partners a model that is community-built, locally driven and independently measured.

Proven since 2007

Eighteen years of operating experience, from a single site in Khayelitsha to a five-country network.

Cradle to career

Nine integrated programme areas, from early childhood development through to employment and entrepreneurship.

Measured

Shared measurement systems across every hub, with 386,396 activity check-ins recorded in 2023/24 alone.

Built to sustain

Inclusive local economic growth creates revenue that covers operating costs, including South Africa’s first township-based contact centre.
Ways to partner

Four ways in

Partnerships at Safe-Hub are structured in tiers. Where you join depends on how far you want to go with us.

Shareholder

Join the joint venture itself. Shareholders shape Safe-Hub Global’s strategy and carry the model into new countries alongside AMANDLA, Knorr-Bremse Global Care and the Oliver Kahn Foundation.
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Acceleration partner

Bring capability rather than capital alone — strategy, legal, technology or operational expertise that accelerates how fast the network can grow.
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Project partner

Fund or deliver a defined programme inside one or more hubs, from a digital lab to an early childhood development centre.
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Bring a Safe-Hub to your community

Cities, municipalities, development banks and community organisations can start the conversation about a new site.
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What a partnership builds

One roof, nine programme areas

Every Safe-Hub participant benefits from holistic services and programmes — from sport to education, to physical health and mental wellbeing, to employment, entrepreneurship and local economic development.
  • Community & stakeholder engagement
  • Sport, culture, art, life skills & PlayMaker (SCALP)
  • Early childhood development
  • Digital Lab
  • Youth Café
  • Health
  • Inclusive local economic growth
  • Green solutions
  • Collective impact
What we do

Let's talk about what we could build together

Annika Beste-Gqobo, our Development Director, handles partnership and funding conversations for the whole network.
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