Thanks to everybody who signed up to ride for a good cause! Charity Group entries are now closed.
HERE ARE OUR PARTICIPATING CHARITY GROUPS
- Note that charities are listed alphabetically.
- AFRIKA TIKKUN: “Your success will lead the way to a child’s success” Read more…
- AMY BIEHL FOUNDATION: The Amy Biehl Foundation seeks to develop and empower children and youth, aged 5 to 18 years, in disadvantaged townships through educational and cultural activities in After-School Care Centres and Outreach Programmes. Read more…
- BAGS OF BITES
- BARAGWANATH PAEDIATRIC BURNS UNIT
- BOLAND SCHOOL FOR AUTISM: The Boland School for Autism, a Non-Profit Organisation started by parents from the community, provides educational support to learners on the Autism spectrum in the Boland area. These children have special educational needs and often do not have access to very expensive therapies, schooling and treatments available. Read more…
- BREATH OF LIFE: Breath of Life is a Crisis Pregnancy-Care Centre that reaches out to women with unplanned pregnancies. Read more…
- BUMBLE BEE FUND: We strive to better the quality of life of individuals affected by SMA and other Motor Neuron diseases. Read more…
- CANSA: Your invaluable contribution will help CANSA fight cancer in many ways. Read more…
- CANCER BUDDIES – RIDE 4 SKIN CANCER: Join us! Read more…
- CASA LABIA CULTURAL CENTRE: We will be riding to raise money for a school in Stanford that desperately needs help to provide the students with decent art materials for their classes. Read more…
- CENTRE FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT: The Centre for Early Childhood Development is committed to putting young children first by ensuring quality care and education for our country’s youngest and most vulnerable citizens. Read more…
- CHAELI CAMPAIGN: The Chaeli Campaign was founded in 2004 to raise funds for a teen’s motorized wheelchair. Now the organisation mobilises the minds and bodies of children with disabilities across South Africa. Read more…
- CHARITY CYCLING CLUB: Cycling to support underprivileged children. Read more…
- CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION: The Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) project was launched at the end of 2010 to raise funds and awareness for the publication of our Special Community Edition on Crimes Against Children. Join our team and ensure that the valuable information contained in this publication reaches all parents and those who work with children. Read more…
- CHOC COWS: Join us! Read more…
- CREARE TRAINING CENTRE: The Creare Training Centre cycling team will be participating in the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour to raise money for educating underprivileged students from South Africa, Africa and abroad. Read more…
- COOP: In itself, the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour is a challenge. Turn the challenge on its head and tackle the highs and lows – ups and downs of the Cape Peninsula in the spirit of giving. Read more…
- DISTANCE FOR DIFFERENCE: D4D help to mobilise runners, cyclists, walkers and swimmers to get sponsorships for every kilometer they complete during the year and, in turn, help to make the lives of specifically children a little bit easier and their future look a bit more promising. Read more…
- DJ EADIE FANNING THE FLAME
- DOOR OF HOPE CHILDREN’S MISSION: Become a friend of Door of Hope Children’s Mission and help save lives. Read more…
- ENDANGERED WILD LIFE TRUST
- FACINGUP SUPPORT SERVICES: Offering support, care and counselling to the community. Read more…
- FOODBANK SA: 11 million South Africans are food insecure. Reducing hunger also reduces crime, poor education and poor health. We can provide a meal for less than R2. Why not join our team and feed many of your neighbours while burning some calories yourself? Read more…
- FOUNDATION BACKBONE: We reach out, support and empower organisations involved with children in need. Our vision is to see self sufficient and sustainable individuals within an organisation. Read more…
- “GIVE ME A CHANCE” CHILDREN’S FOUNDATION: The Give Me A Chance Children’s Foundation are planning a fundraising event for the 2012 Cycle Tour in an attempt to set the world record for the most people ever to ride for charity in a timed cycling race. Read more…
- GVI ONCOLOGY TRUST: Committed to excellence in Cancer Care Read more…
- HANDS4SOULS: Founded to help disabled athletes and orphans. Join us and ride for a bigger purpose than a personal best. Ride to make a difference and touch a soul. Read more…
- HATZOLAH MEDICAL RESCUE: A volunteer community based ambulance service offering 24/7/365 world class emergency medical response. Read more…
- IMIBALA: Imibala’s main focus is providing a primary education for children in schools serving the underprivileged communities of the Helderberg area. Read more…
- JAG FOUNDATION: The JAG Foundation’s mentoring, coaching, knowledge and sport programmes target alcohol and drugs head on by demonstrating the rewards of an alternative, positive lifestyle, bringing hope to escape their surroundings, and trying to place them out of reach of gangsterism and the resulting hopeless spiral of criminal behaviour. Read more…
- JB EXPRESS
- JWALANG MINISTRIES
- K’s FOR KITTY
- LE CAP SPORTIF: Join our team to help introduce sport into underprivileged communities! Read more…
- LISOF Tomorrow Trust Bikes for Bursaries: This project is part of our ongoing efforts to raise bursary funds for deserving, talented candidates to attend Universities or Colleges of their choice and will be coupled with the official launch of our Cape Town campus in 2012. Read more…
- LITTLE FIGHTERS CANCER TRUST: We draw our inspiration from children who have no choice but to battle Cancer daily and we commit to support these families through the trials and tribulations that they face. Read more…
- MAD: Help the Francois Pienaar Make A Difference Foundation (MAD) improve the lives of South Africa’s youth by creating exceptional education opportunities for talented youngsters from less privileged circumstances. Read more…
- MILES FOR SMILES: The Cipla Miles for Smiles Foundation was formed to assist Operation Smile in creating awareness for the plight of children born with cleft lips and palates and raise funds to perform corrective surgery on them. Read more…
- MES: Join us! Read more…
- NICRO: Every year, NICRO channels more than 16000 individuals away from crime, and with constant support from you, more youth would be able to find hope and be steered away from criminal activities. Read more…
- PAIGE PROJECT: The Paige Project is a charity organisation whose main objectives are to raise funds to benefit disadvantaged children with physical and mental disabilities (primarily caused by cerebral palsy), by supplying their family, care facilities or social workers with equipment or training courses to assist in the child’s development.
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- PHILILE
- PINKDRIVE: The PinkDrive is an indispensable, tangible breast cancer non-profit organisation powering mobile mammography and an educational unit through our country with the message that Early Detection Saves Lives. Read more…
- PINK CHICKS CANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION: The vision of Pink Chicks is to create a community where every person diagnosed with cancer becomes a survivor, and fear and doubt are replaced with knowledge and hope. Read more…
- PROJECT CAT-EYE: We give spectacles to people that cannot afford it themselves. To be able to do this we need support from the community. The injustice of being blind in our world today, through lack of spectacles, is totally unacceptable. The solution is so simple, an eye examination and a pair of spectacles. Read more…
- RACE FOR THE RHINO
- RAINBOWS AND SMILES FOUNDATION
- REACH FOR A DREAM: Have you ever dreamt of wearing the yellow jersey? Join the Dream Team and you will not only be riding the Cycle Tour in your own yellow jersey; you will also be helping children with life-threatening illnesses realise their special dreams. Read more…
- REDDAM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: Through the Reddam Foundation, Reddam House is able to provide disadvantaged students with scholarships, bursaries and awards for study, research and teaching, as well as educational enrichment and academic support programmes, supplementary tuition and outreach programmes. Read more…
- RIDE FOR PAUL RAMBURAM
- RIDE FOR TAMMY: Ride For Tammy is a leukaemia awareness group that is trying to highlight the plight of leukaemia patients in finding suitable bone marrow donors. Read more…
- ROTARY CLUB OF BRITS
- SABRINA LOVE FOUNDATION: Join us! Read more…
- SAFETYNET: SafetyNet’s main objective is to provide rehabilitation for the men in our community and to help them start over again with dignity. Read more…
- SCHOOL HOUSE BISHOPS
- SEVEN PASSES INITIATIVE: The Seven Passes Initiative is a youth development and educational organisation that seeks to prevent youth involvement in crime through providing quality after school care. We do this through daily homework clubs, computer lessons, holiday and other educational activities, including sport, music and drama. The Initiative works towards long-term poverty alleviation through raising the educational level of the community with services provided in Touwsranten and the adjacent farming district in the Garden Route. Read more…
- SA CHILDREN’S HOME: The SA Children’s Home – the oldest welfare organisation – seeks to provide a secure and loving environment for the 44 boys and girls placed in our care. Read more…
- SARDA: S.A. RIDING FOR THE DISABLED was established in 1973 and provides free therapeutic horse riding lessons to over 200 children and adults weekly, the majority of which come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Read more…
- SHINE: The Shine Centre is a non-profit organisation that provides literacy and language enrichment to children in Grades Two and Three through regular volunteer-led tutoring. Read more…
- SMILE FOUNDATION: Help put a smile on a child’s face today! Read more…
- SOLIDARITY HELPING HAND: “Only the educated are free” – Epictetus Read more…
- SPCA: Thinking about riding in the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour next year? How about letting animals gain from your pain by riding for TEAM SPCA and making your race count for more! Read more…
- ST LUKE’S HOSPICE:
The aim of St Luke’s Hospice is to enable our patients to live until their very last moment, as pain free as possible, and then to die in dignity. Read more…
- STRAND ROTARY CLUB
- TEARS:
Join us! Read more…
- TOPSY FOUNDATION:
Become a Topsy HERO! We invite you to join our passionate team. Read more…
- TOMORROW TRUST
- U-TURN:
Our main aim is to help homeless people turn their lives around so that they can become independent and productive members of society. Read more…
- WiSSH:
Our aim is to get the wider community and businesses involved in empowering the less fortunate and inspiring the youth. Read more…
- WWF South Africa:
WWF-SA, the World Wide Fund for Nature (South Africa) aims to inspire people to value, respect and defend our natural environment and resources that underpin the lives and well-being of all our people. Read more…
