Case Studies

Every year, This Day give grants to groups and individuals that work on the issues we focus on—promoting justice, transparency, and positive social change. Here’s a selection of the projects we’ve impacted

AFRIKA TIKKUN

SOUTH AFRICA

Afrika Tikkun is a South African youth development organisation that, for more than 30 years, has been changing the trajectory of young lives by creating opportunity where poverty has too often limited possibility. Inspired by the legacy of its late Patron-in-Chief, Nelson Mandela, Afrika Tikkun continues to champion holistic youth development as a powerful catalyst for change, enabling young people to build better futures for themselves, their families, and their communities.

Founded in 1994 on the belief that every child and young person deserves the chance to realise their full potential, Afrika Tikkun drives sustainable, lasting change through its Cradle-to-Career model that supports young people from early childhood through education, skills development, and into meaningful employment.

To date, Afrika Tikkun has reached more than 2 million children and young people. In 2025 alone, it:

  • provided over 1.9 million nutritious meals
  • achieved a 98.4% school-readiness rate (measuring developmental milestones in children about to go to school, to ensure they’re successfully able to make the transition to education)
  • achieved a 94% matric pass rate (the percentage of final-year high school students who successfully pass their National Senior Certificate [NSC] exams at 17/18 years old, with 61% achieving bachelor-level passes)
  • created more than 4,500 work-placement opportunities

BLOOMSBURY FOOTBALL FOUNDATION

UNITED KINGDOM

Football has the power to address the many challenges faced by young people, worsened due to the pandemic and cost of living crisis.

Since 2018, Bloomsbury Football Foundation has used this power to improve young people’s mental and physical wellbeing, foster community cohesion, and develop their life skills giving them the best chance of success. The charity currently supports over 4,000 young people per week through a range of programmes on 40 pitches and in 30 schools across London, with plans to scale up activities over the next few years.

OUR SECOND HOME

UNITED KINGDOM

Our Second Home is a youth movement for refugees and asylum seekers, supporting them to flourish into adulthood in a place they call home.

On OSH residential trips they come together, to cook, play, dance, and have fun. Participants then take part in a nationally certified leadership training programme, and go on to lead the movement themselves. OSH is building the next generation of leaders from refugee backgrounds to become role models in its movement and in local communities. OSH now runs nine residentials per year, with hubs in London, Essex, Newcastle, and Bristol. Weekly classes are also provided to ensure participants have the tools necessary to fulfil their leadership potential in society.

HARAMBEE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT ACCELERATOR

SOUTH AFRICA

Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator is a not-for-profit social enterprise, founded in 2011, that works with partners to find solutions for the challenge of youth unemployment. Its partners who, like Harambee, are committed to results that can work at scale, include government, the private sector, civil society, and over 5 million youth. Together they are working to unlock earning opportunities and break down the barriers that keep millions of young South Africans unemployed. Harambee’s vision is of a growing economy and a society that works, powered by the potential of young people.

As an anchor partner in the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention, Harambee operates and manages SA Youth, South Africa’s largest youth online recruitment platform that connects youth to earning opportunities and gives employers access to young talent across the country. SA Youth supports a network of over 4.6 million young work-seekers and over 3,000 employers. To date, the platform has successfully connected over 1.6 million young work-seekers to earning opportunities across the economy.