SERVICES

We provide tailored services to our clients that are designed with wisdom and experience, to deliver lasting results.

Our services can be relied on, and our results can be trusted.

BESPOKE SME PROGRAMMES

For over a decade we have been designing and implementing Enterprise Development programmes that deliver exceptional, long-lasting results. Much of our success is due to our own understanding of the entrepreneurial journey, born of years of starting, growing and running our own businesses across multiple sectors.

The long-term survival rate of a business that participates on one of our programmes 87.4% – almost five times the national average. Our tried and tested methodology combines diagnostics, practical skills training, expert mentorship, e-learning, consulting, access to markets and access to finance.

Find out more about our programmes HERE.

SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT

Supplier Development is a process that must be done right as the results impact the profitability and performance of the company, the viability of the small supplier, and the well-being of the country. Fetola’s Supplier Development services are designed to help our clients deliver real impact while transforming their supply chain.

Fetola’s work supports the commercial needs of the client by addressing the supply chain and scorecard priorities while ensuring the lasting and successful growth of selected small suppliers. We go beyond just meeting the requirements of the B-BBEE code.

Catherine Wijnberg was one of the founders of the annual Absa Business Day Supplier Development Awards. The event highlights the great work that corporate South Africa is doing in supporting small suppliers.

INCUBATOR SERVICES

We are passionate about creating real impact and for this to happen industry collaboration must be encouraged across all sectors. Incub8 offers a range of capacity building tools, templates, training, mentorship and consulting services specifically developed for the business incubation industry.

If you are looking to start your own business development or entrepreneurial support programme we can help you start and optimise your initiative.

The offering includes:

The Fetola Business Incubator Blueprint© – The ultimate how-to guide to successfully establishing and running an award-winning business incubator in SA. Includes a full set of fundamental incubator tools and templates (including templates for selection, budgeting, M&E, participant development and more).
Incubator establishment: Design and implementation of new incubators
Diagnostic services: Review of established incubators; improve efficiency and success rates
Capacity building: Practical training for incubator managers

Alignment to all relevant industry standards, the B-BBEE Codes, and other statutory requirement.

SERVICES TO ENTREPRENEURS

Fetola are small business specialists with 30 years’ experience in starting, growing and operating businesses. As firm believers in the power of entrepreneurship to transform our economy, and lifelong entrepreneurs ourselves, we understand the entrepreneurial journey and walk beside our programme participants and individual clients every step of the way. Sign up today

FETOLA FUND

Join us for the next decade of CREATING POSITIVE IMPACT (2020 to 2030)

The Fetola Fund seeks to enable access to finance for growing SMEs. This transformation Fund is characterised by its support to promising small businesses with the potential to scale their economic and social impact.

This is a long-term fund built on over a decade of successfully supporting many SMEs across a wide range of sectors in every corner of South Africa. The 10-year fund objective is to successfully support the growth of one hundred small and growing businesses in their quest to make lasting social and economic impact and is therefore highly developmental in nature.

The objectives of the fund are:

To increase access to finance to SMEs in early stage of their growth
To provide catalytic financing for innovation where this strengthens the long-term growth trajectory of the business
To leverage Government, international and private sector investment to small businesses
To encourage collaborative ventures with scalable impact

The funding threshold is R250 000 to R500,000.

For more information please contact Fetola’s SME Investment Readiness Desk at gprince@fetola.co.za

HOLISTIC INITIATIVES

We implement holistic support programmes designed to stimulate business success. These programmes, (such as GROUNDSWELL Africa, the SAB Foundation Tholoana Programme, the #JustAddGreen programme and our award-winning Legends initiative (2007-2013)) provide support for all business challenges; business skills training, mentorship, access to finance, access to resources and access to markets. See our Initiatives page to learn more.

INDIVIDUAL SME SOLUTIONS

We support, in various ways, thousands of individual business owners and entrepreneurs with a range of solutions, including:

Strategic consulting services. Contact us
Access to news, views, tips, tools & information via The Catalyst publication
Personal business skills training, including leadership development.