The Sanlam Foundation

Our Consumer Financial Education Programmes endeavour to impact financial literacy skills to a targeted groups within communities, worksites and organised labour groupings nationally.

The Sanlam Foundation has partnered with various organisations to provide Consumer Financial Education training with the aim of empowering people with the knowledge to understand financial terminology and their personal financial affairs, and to ultimately improve their financial decisions which will impact their future financial resilience positively.

We also promote the empowerment of retirement fund trustees through a unique combination of thought leadership pieces and sponsored articles in the Today’s Trustee publication. This initiative seeks to stimulate awareness on topical issues and to extend our educational support.

The Sanlam Foundation has partnered with the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA) to provide investment funding and business development support (BDS) to supply chain aligned SMEs and financial planning businesses via the Sanlam Group Enterprise Supplier Development (ESD) programme.

The intent of the programme is to transform, develop and grow Sanlam’s distribution network and supply chain, through the creation and support of an environment fostering financial resilience and sustainability for high potential businesses.

ESD Beneficiary: Legaći.

As part of it's mandate as custodian of corporate social investment activities across the Sanlam Group, the Foundation supports developmental work in other African countries with a focus on education and Consumer Financial Education.

The Foundation manages the Group’s Staff Volunteerism Programme (SVP) which aims to provide an outlet for all Sanlam’s staff members to contribute meaningfully to the developmental agenda of the county. To date, these include Payroll Contributions and Day of Giving, both of which are managed in partnership with Group Human Resources.

Leveraging Sanalam's existing, extensive art collection, the Foundation entered into a partnership with the Norval Foundation, an arts centre dedicated to the research, education and exhibition of 20th and 21st century visual art from South Africa and beyond.

The collaboration has thus far focused on developing an accessible African art history book for children. The aim is to teach children about African artists in a fun and accessible way, whilst sparking an interest in the arts.