Future Champs is a project of the Inqolobane Trust IT1373/2011 and the SDI Global Network

“As the world seeks sustainable solutions to rapid urbanization, looking to redesign and create smart cities, identify strategies to alleviate climate change and develop future-fit children through the Sustainable Development Goals, most South Africans remain trapped in survival mode. South African children experience abnormally high levels of toxic stress. This affects all families, citizens and businesses, as well as government. It is particularly harmful for young children. Children need social skills that equip them to cope and succeed in the 21st century. These include the ability to communicate effectively, collaborate with others, identify and solve problems and have empathy.”

High levels of inequality, unemployment and interpersonal violence, along with a gen-eralized HIV epidemic, mean that children are exposed to several layers of adversity at the same time. The abnormally high levels of toxic stress experienced by South Africans affect all citizens, families, businesses, and levels of government. It is particularly harmful for young children and youth. This compounding effect is increasingly being felt in South African society.

Our Why

A Pro Active Response

Future Champs is a response to this circumstance, the gyms provide a safe and secure space for youth with physical training and mentorship to enable them to unlock their potential and reduce toxic stress. The gyms provide a consistent, stimulating and caring environment where youth can access opportunities and experiences to equip them to develop into healthier, well-adjusted Future Champs of life.

Future Champs was started in 2009, the network of gyms serve as a safe and secure space for youth with physical training and a mentorship framework to enable them to unlock their potential and reduce toxic stress. The gyms provide a consistent, stimulating and caring environment where youth can access opportunities and experiences to equip them to develop into healthier, well-adjusted Future Champs of life.

Future Champs is housed as a project under the auspices of SDI and the Inqolobane Trust umbrella who provide administrative and financial management back office support. SDI has executed large international social impact projects with international donors, national and local governments and global agencies such as the United Nations, World Bank, Swedish Sida, NORAD. Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Founda-tion and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Future Champs is able to draw on this experience and staffing capacity surrounding compliance and diligent financial management.

History

Project of the SDI Network Fight For Peace Alumni

Boxing is a metaphor for life and teaches many universal attributes needed for personal growth and success: discipline, respect, resilience, hard work, focus, commitment and channelled aggression; this coupled with the fighter-coach relationship creates a dynamic for natural mentorship & guidance. Physical fitness alleviates stress with countless health benefits. Group cardiovascular activities builds team spirit, camaraderie and provides and environment for long lasting friendships and the development interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence.

Why Boxing, Why Physical Fitness:

We have structured the Future Champs Social Enterprise based on a 6 pronged Return on (Socia)l Investment model or “ROSI”.

This framework provides a vehicle for businesses to partner with us, make a measurable social impact while enjoying commercial benefits which better brand positioning and the bottom line.

This is Corporate Social Investment 3.0 where measurable Social Impact and Tangible Commercial benefits work in concert.

Pairing Purpose & Profit: Return on (Social) Investment

Tax Write Off via 18 A CertificateContributions and Financial support provided to the Future Champs program (both allocated to either support existing gyms, the network or to build new gyms) can be written off against Tax via 18 A certificate.

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Improved BBBEE Score Card in line with the new codesContributions and Financial support provided to the Future Champs and its programs will result in improved BBB EE scorecard and ratings in line with the new codes of good practice and the renewed focus on enterprise development.

Interior & Exterior Gym BrandingOur container gyms, positioned in high traffic settings provide the perfect canvas for outdoor branding opportunities, essentially a 3D billboard and permanent brand visibility of a social impact project in action. Equally the interior of the gyms and the boxing ring in the centre furnish a host of branding real estate possibilities.

Brand Positioning Content Creation & DataThe Future Champs content team creates brand positioning content on a monthly basis, tied to a content and distribution strategy. We work directly with the marketing teams of support brands to develop content that enhances brand narrative and positioning.

Co-BrandedEvents Future Champs stages ongoing tournaments and fundraising events where partner brands enjoy brand visibility across all marketing collateral in the build up to each occasion. These events provide a prime setting for brand activation, content creation, PR and corporate hospitality opportunities.

Social ImpactDataWe employ robust monitoring and evaluation tools within a reporting framework that tracks our activities into evidence based data and metrics. This process allows us to continually sense check our activities against key KPIs, allowing us the ability to continually optimize our pro-gram for best results and social outcomes.

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Many grassroots boxing coaches exist, delivering boxing training to youth across South Africa, in classrooms, community halls, churches, in shacks etc - this positive response is irregular, inconsistent and fragmented with no consolidation of efforts. These efforts need to be supported and networked.

CoachesChanges Lives

Galvanizing aNetwork

Future Champs creates an umbrella organization and brand whee coaches that have demonstrated a passion and resilience to deliver boxing training as a tool for youth development against all oods can be galvanized into a network of Future Champs satellite gyms; and supported with training, capacity, communication material, equipment and resources to imporove the quality of delivery and scale impact. The strategy celebrates and supports this natural response and harnesses the power of an extended network to optimize scale.

The Future Champsmethodology is dividedinto 3 key pillars

Quick, Scalable & Cost EffectiveContainers present a readily available, reusable resource throughout the continent. They are modular and configurations can be adapted to individual conditions and settings, we can also build and upgrade incrementally. They offer the ability to build quickly with off-site construction, delivered to site as a kit for cost effective assembly, saving on time, labour and building site infrastructure. Container structures although fully compliant to building and habitation regulations are still classed as temporary structures which fast tracks planning approvals and cuts through red tape and bureaucratic delays. Up-cycling and repurposing containers as the primary building material for gym construction presents less of a stress on the environment and is eco friendly

A CommunityAsset in Action

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Creating Data &Measuring Impact

Content is King

Enterprising &Entrepreneurial

Collaboration and strategic partnerships are key to keeping an organisation relevant, funded and well networked. Future Champs has built strong relationships with brands and organisations around the world and welcomes cooperations and affiliation that can take our efforts to the next level.

The Future Champs brand has extended into the merchandise space with a full capsule and collab ranges. A considered approach is now being taken to design limited edition capsules in collaboration with established brands to be sold on our online store for maximum return. This presents another revenue stream, but also a huge brand building function positioning Future Champs in a pop culture space keeping us relevant and youth focused.

Brand Relevance & Collaboration

SustainabiltyModel

A Robust, Replicate’able Model

By perfecting operations using the Philippi gym as our testing and research center we will be able to derive key insights that will inform the creation of an operations manual and best practice framework for running the gyms in all facets and the delivering our 3 pillar program.

By enabling and supporting coaches and building Future Champs gyms from which to deliver boxing training framed within a personal development framework we can leverage social impact and alter urban space.

Jeremy BeanCo-Founder / Director

Bradley AbrahamsCo-Founder / Marketing

Zola KotiFlagship Head Coach

Gertrude MazvimaviFinance & Administration

Junaid Van ZylData Analyst

Yamkela NtolaLegal

Team

Contact

Thank You

Jeremy BeanT +27 82 671 2624

Project of the SDI Network

Web www.thefuturechamps.org

Email thefuturechampsza@gmail.com

FB facebook.com/thefuturechampsBradley AbrahamsT +27 82 497 8421

Fight For Peace Alumni