Take your green business to the next level. Join the Nedbank Green Ventures Programme
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Programme Outline

Programme Details

90 second video script

Feel free to conduct the audition in any language you prefer.

  • 1. ⁠Introduction (Name & Surname)
  • 2. Why do you want to join the Avo Vision Green Business Incubation Programme?
  • 3. ⁠What experience do you have in entrepreneurship or business development?
  • 4.⁠ ⁠How do you think you joining this programme will change things for you and your community?
Applications Closed

Business Support Services:

Procurement services (identification of contracts with key suppliers); Contracting and Compliance; Accounting services; Loan administration (subject to approval).

Matatiele Green Ventures

Technical Support Services

Harvesting coaching: Kiln operations and chainsaw operations coaching.

Matatiele Nedbank Application

Matatiele Green Ventures Programme

Recruitment

  • Recruitment
  • Application Process
  • Audition your business (Credit score assessment, charcoal appetite, land secured, self-marketing video)
  • Contracting (between SMME and Avo Vision Foundation)

Face to Face Engagement

  • Business Acumen Training
  • Business Coaching

Charcoal Production Specialist Stage

Part One:

Charcoal Readiness

  • Apprenticeship Phase One:
    Immersion phase completed
  • Charcoal simulation
  • How to make charcoal
  • Compliance documentation:
    – Business Plan
    – FSC Certification
    – Offtake Agreement

Part Two:

Minimum Investment made

  • Meet the grant criteria
  • The investment is made for the following:
  • Technical training
    Health & Safety, Herbicide, Chainsaw, First Aid and Firefighting
  • Equipment needed for clearing and harvesting phases.
  • Operating expenses including salaries
  • Apprenticeship Phase Two:
    Peer technical training (on-site learning the clearing and harvesting processes)