Friends of REEDS

Tourism Radio

Tourism Radio is a GPS driven information station for tourists. We tell you all about the area you are travelling through and draw your attention to prominent landmarks and highlights as you approach them so you don’t miss anything that South Africa has to offer. Visit their website www.tourismradio.co.za
 

Amy Biehl Foundation

REEDS Motor Group is an active sponsor and friend of the Amy Biehl Foundation. Over the years the Foundation has flourished in its mission to Weave a Barrier Against Violence by emphasizing social, cultural and economic empowerment through its programmes. Currently, two of the young men who were convicted of Amy’s murder and granted amnesty, work for the Foundation to make these programmes a success. They are a living embodiment of the values, such as forgiveness, reconciliation and tolerance, which we strive to teach the youth of Cape Town through our work. Visit them at www.amybiehl.co.za
 

Volunteer Wildfire Services

REEDS has also been a proud vehicle sponsor of this amazing group of volunteers. The Volunteer Wildfire Services is a group of about 150 men and women from all walks of life who assist with the combating and extinguishing of wildfires that occur in the Cape Peninsula.
 

Established in 1999, the VWS was baptised by fire during the devastating fires of 2000. It is now a highly organized registered Section 21 Company that continues to grow in reputation and stature. Over the past 9 years it has assisted the Table Mountain National Park and surrounding areas with some of the wildest fires Cape Town has experienced. Visit them at www.capefires.com
 

Beautiful Gate Ministry

Beautiful Gate Ministry is an interdenominational Christian organisation providing care and support to vulnerable children and families. We believe that the best place for each child is within a family, and that the best way to support families is to enable their community to provide support. In South Africa, our community based ministry is situated on the outskirts of Cape Town, in the informal area of Lower Crossroads. Here we aim to restore the capacity of the community and of families to care for their children or, where this is not possible, to find alternative families.

In this regard Beautiful Gate has emerged as a trustworthy partner to the local community and to other NGO’s as well as government in addressing issues of HIV/AIDS and its impact on children, families and the community. Visit their website at www.beautifulgate.org
 

Reeds joins the contego Wines2Whales

It is with great enthusiasm that REEDS Motor Group has been welcomed as the official off-road vehicle sponsor of the Contego Wines2Whales MTB Adventure and Race.

Taking place from 04 – 06 November and 11 – 13 November respectively, the Contego Wines2Whales MTB Adventure and Race will start at the beautiful Lourensford Wine Estate (Somerset West) on the Friday and end at the Onrus Caravan Park (near Hermanus) on the Sunday.  Teams of two cyclists (men/female/mixed) will be seen traversing approximately 230 km of the Western Cape’s most beautiful and un-spoilt terrain.  Riders can expect to see breath-taking scenery while experiencing spectacular mountain-biking terrain.   

In three short years the event has become one of the three premier mountain biking events in South Africa.

For more information please visit: www.wines2whales.co.za

Western Province Preparatory School

Western Province Preparatory School or WETPUPS as it is known is one of the most respected private primary schools in the Western Cape. Headmaster, Michael Hosty is the man in charge of this school that was established in 1912. You can therefore imagine that this school has a lot of heritage and history. Michael says: “We aim to encourage the boys to explore their strengths and abilities as well as learn to live with their limitations. By achieving success in one sphere or another, their confidence and self belief grows. At the same time, this successful creativity – be it in academic or extra mural areas – transfers its effect to other parts of their lives. High standards are expected and from our community life they learn tolerance, consideration and respect for those with whom they live”. Please visit their website at www.wetpups.co.za
 

Tygerberg Mountain Bike Club 

 The Club was officially constituted in 1997 and has been run by various enthusiasts over the years. It reached it’s previous largest size around 2005/6, when it had nearly 200 members and was given use of the Majik Forest trails for as long as it remained active. It is obligated through an old agreement with the De-Grendel Sub-Council to maintain these trails

The Majik Forest is an area of woodland and derelict vineland situated above the Van Riebeeckshof Shopping Centre, bordered now by the Oude Westhof estate on one side and D’Aria/Altydgedacht vineyards on the other. Access is from an entrance off the Jip de Jager extension road that leads to the Vineyard Development, or from Oude Westhof. The whole area is less than 12 hectares, and it is the ONLY trail in the Northern Suburbs, an area that is home to perhaps 300,000 people or more. Mountainbikers have been using the trails there for the last 17 years, but as housing has grown up around it, more and more walkers and runners use them too.

The idea for a Durbanville Hills trail network germinated after TmtbC was invited to present ideas to the Tygerberg Renosterveld Conservancy (TRC) at it’s AGM in Mar 2008.The TRC was looking for ways to raise funds to preserve, maintain and grow the preciously small (only 4% remains of the original) areas of Renosterveld remaining in the Southern end of the Western Cape. The idea that mountain bikers would ‘pay to play’ was seen as a key factor in opening up areas of unused farmland for the benefit of all.

http://www.tygerbergmtb.co.za