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Scott Bader South Africa sponsor local academy football team
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14/10/2022
Ben Penney
Scott Bader South Africa have recently sponsored the African Wanderers Soccer academy with their new football kit.
The African Wanderers are a South African professional football club, based in the Chatsworth township, which is a suburb of Durban in South Africa. The club currently play in the KwaZulu-Natal province of Vodacom League.
The junior academy side started 8 years ago. It currently has over 200 members who are coached by twenty previously disadvantaged coaches that have been employed full-time. They are committed professionals remunerated for the training they provide to the junior players.
The Scott Bader Commonwealth
Scott Bader Commonwealth donate a minimum of 5% of Scott Bader’s operating profit to be donated to charitable activities and projects around the world.
Not only this, but Scott Bader operate a matched funding scheme which means Scott Bader will match every £1 (or equivalent) raised by colleagues taking part in charitable fundraising activities (up to a maximum of £1,000 per person per year), effectively doubling the value of most fundraising initiatives.
Finally, all Scott Bader colleagues can take one day’s paid leave each year to use for volunteering, so that colleagues can contribute to and connect with their local community, building relationships and supporting our founder’s principle of a wider social responsibility.
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