The Trust focuses on developmental projects that are sustainable and growth-driven, rather than once-off handouts, formalising the ways the community is already helping itself, not to be patriarchal or dictatorial.
Pigs for People primarily assists educational facilities such as local schools and sustainable community upliftment projects.
The project supplies central buying power and marketing support which would be unavailable to the businesses and participants individually.
Historic Bathurst is a registered NPO which maintains the Heritage sites in and around Bathurst, which are not maintained by an owner.
Arising generally from the Covid-19 crisis, this initiative provided urgent assistance to people in the Trust’s designated areas, once the crisis had abated, leftover funds were used for the Grow Nolukhanyo Project.
The success of the Pigs for People project (above) prompted a group of cattle farmers to encourage the organisers to undertake a similar initiative with beneficiaries near to the cattle-farming community’s hearts.
The Bathurst Development Trust (BDT) is a community-led and charitably funded organisation that strives to provide the people of Bathurst, Nolukhanyo and surrounding areas with the resources, skills, and assistance they need to break the cycle of poverty and uplift the area as a whole.
Projects funded by the trust focus primarily on sustainable community upliftment programmes, and tourism initiatives (this being the largest contributor to the area’s economy).