The Prince Albert Community Trust (PACT) is committed to serving as a change agent by making a lasting impact through empowering and enabling the youth of the greater area it serves, while fighting to transform the current status quo of inequality still so deeply embedded in our society.
Collaboration, faith, hope and love – these are the building blocks that form our foundation of positive, transformational community engagement. By partnering with community champions, and adopting innovative inclusive approaches and a solution-based mindset, PACT aims to build trust and bridges within the community.
A multipronged organisation – which sees a core team on the ground working together with our office in Paarl, the community and the trustees – PACT considers and evaluates every initiative through the lens of how it can create opportunity, build social cohesion and answer real needs.
PACT is a non-profit and public benefit organisation, registered as a trust. We are non-partisan, non-political and non-denominational, and respect all creeds and cultures. PACT acts as an umbrella body and bona fide charity, channelling donations towards the welfare of the disadvantaged community of Prince Albert and the greater municipal area of Klaarstroom, Seekoeigat and Leeu-Gamka.
We have three focus areas where we strategically place our interventions and investment – education, health and well-being, and youth and skills development. We believe that these are the areas where we can have the biggest impact and drive transformation.
A new and third ARCO Project is currently being created in Prince Albert in collaboration with the Prince Albert Community Trust (PACT) starting in January 2024. As the inaugural project ARCO Soweto is the longest standing and most extensive of the three ventures. ARCO has recently moved its base to the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where it will be embedded as an academic elective in both the undergraduate and postgraduate courses during the 2023-24 academic year.