The Early Learning Research Unit (ELRU) is a programme that creates circles of support around a child starting at conception, continuing throughout the pregnancy and into the child’s early years. The purpose of the ELRU is to ensure that children of a preschool age are school-ready and prepared for a classroom environment. This involves capacity building with primary caregivers and educators, as well as providing children with access to early learning facilities.

Our three primary school programmes aim to promote numeracy, literacy and life skills.

Counting with Coronation, managed by the Primary Science Programme, is a two-year training programme that provides intensive mathematics training to primary school teachers. Workshops focus on practical teaching; how to monitor and assess children’s learning of mathematics; how to use resources effectively to promote learning; and how to implement appropriate interventions to support struggling learners. Mathematics resource kits help teachers to engage entire classes of learners in practical mathematics learning.

Coronation's Reading Adventure Rooms teaches educators to improve literacy levels in primary schools through practical training, tools, educational material and mentorship. To make reading fun for the kids, classrooms are transformed with painted murals to create a fun, adventure-themed learning environment. Holiday interventions provide struggling learners with additional support and attention to ensure they are able to keep up with the standards of the curriculum.

The Schools Garden Programme ensures that learners have access to adequate nutrition while developing practical life skills. By encouraging children to take an interest in the environment and agriculture, the programme teaches them how to grow their own produce. Managed by the South African Institute for Entrepreneurship, educators and caretakers are also equipped to support the learners to maintain school gardens. These gardens deliver produce to school nutrition programmes and feeding schemes. The programme also teaches children to be financially astute as the some of the produce is also sold to the local communities. 

Capsule also focuses on educating the educators – a profession that is notoriously under-resourced and underpaid in South Africa. We offer bursaries and skills development opportunities to students and school principals. By focusing on improving school leadership and teaching quality, we aim to transform public schools serving socioeconomically disadvantaged communities into centres of excellence.

The Future Leaders Programme, run by the Global Teachers Initiative, aims to address the severe shortage of qualified teachers in South Africa by providing bursaries to students studying towards a Bachelor of Education through Unisa. In addition to a degree, the programme includes practical classroom training, dedicated mentoring and specialised tuition.       

The Principals Academy is a three-year programme run by the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (GSB-UCT) that partners retired school principals with school principals in underprivileged areas to provide coaching and mentoring on a weekly basis. These sessions are geared to share experiences, build confidence and explore different strategies to address the highly complex problems schools face in disadvantaged communities. The principals also attend a 15-day self-mastery and systems thinking programme run by GSB-UCT. By focusing on improving school leadership and teaching quality, this initiative aims to turn public schools serving socioeconomically disadvantaged communities into centres of excellence.

We offer adult life skills training and financial education to help equip men and women with parenting skills and to foster a better culture of saving in South Africa. 

Consumer financial education delivers meaningful financial education to adults with th goal of empowering them with financial skills and knowledge so that they can make better financial decisions and improve their lives. This community-focused programme offers a bespoke series of modules and targets economically active individuals in impoverished communities who are aged 16 and above.

Parent workshops are run across our Capsule schools by the Community Action Partnership, and aim to practically guide parents to develop relationships that enable them to positively influence learners’ education choices. Weekly workshops held over weekends educate parents as to how to support their children in school and to develop social skills, and to establish the importance of teacher-parent collaboration. Training on basic budgeting, investing and saving practices is also presented. 

Our Growing Entrepreneurs Programme provides training for emerging farmers across South Africa. Topics include good governance, financial management, the practical and legal aspects of farm operations, and recordkeeping, with the aim of commercialising their efforts to support a sustainable business. Run in collaboration with the South African Institute for Entrepreneurship, this initiative has positively impacted rural and peri-urban communities through economic development, job creation and poverty alleviation, especially among small-scale agricultural farmers.

We are a sponsor and funder of the Association for Savings and Investment SA’s (ASISA's) development programme for independent financial advisers (IFAs). The aim is to provide business development support to independent black financial advisers by equipping them with practical management skills and knowledge.  In addition, since 2006, we have been allocating a minimum of 10% of our annual South African equity brokerage to a group of small black stockbrokers. This has helped to create sustainable businesses and has contributed to meaningful transformation in the financial services industry.

Partners for Possibility connects principals from under-resourced schools with business leaders. The success of the internationally recognised leadership development initiative lies in a year-long collaborative journey that the partners embark on to improve the quality of education offered at the school. The programme provides the business leaders with mentorship training and the opportunity to transfer their leadership skills and business acumen to educators. Schools that have participated in the programme have seen an increase in teacher motivation and engagement, creating long-term benefits for the schools and learners.

Developing leadership talent in girls through mentorship programmes with the recipients of the SAILI High School Scholarship Programme. These personal, interactive sessions focus on how the learners can achieve financial freedom through adopting savings habits and developing a positive relationship with money. They also receive guidance on study skills, establishing a healthy lifestyle, maintaining a positive outlook and how to plan their future careers.

We provide financial support to the Carel du Toit Centre, which empowers children with hearing loss by helping them to develop speech and language skills. Through combining advanced hearing technology, committed parental support and the intensive, holistic intervention of a pre-primary and foundation-phase school, hearing-impaired children can develop the emotional, intellectual and social skills that enable them to integrate successfully and productively into society.