Weekend workshops in Woodstock, after-school clubs and an online cohort for students and first-time earners. Each module ends with a practical exercise using public company reports, so you leave with something you can read, not just notes.
Every format below covers the same core ground: how a share price is read, why spreading money across different assets matters, what inflation does to a first salary, and where the line sits between holding something long term and chasing a story. What changes is the setting, the pace and how much of the work you do on your own.
A four-hour session on a Saturday morning, capped at twenty people so questions actually get answered. Whiteboard work on reading a listing page, then a group exercise pulling numbers from a public annual report.
Weekly sessions through the school term, built for learners who want the basics to settle over time rather than in one sitting. Each week ends with a short task using real company documents.
For people outside Cape Town or working weekends. Same modules, delivered in live online sessions with recordings you can revisit, plus the starter workbook to work through at your own pace.
Not sure which fits your week? The services overview compares the formats side by side, and the main page explains what the project does and does not cover.
A few terms get used loosely once money and markets come up, so we set our own boundaries here. Read this before you pick a module, and bring the questions it raises to the first session.
Nothing in a workshop, club or workbook names a company to buy. We work through public annual reports and price pages so you can form your own reading of a business. If a facilitator ever hands out a tip, that is outside the programme and you should say so.
Prices fall. Companies fail. Money placed in markets can be worth less when you take it out. We spend real session time on that, including the difference between a temporary drop and a business that has genuinely changed.
We do not run chat groups that tell you when to act, and we do not sell access to anyone else's calls. Urgency, screenshots instead of documents and promises of fast money are the habits we teach you to recognise, not the ones we use.
Facilitators are working analysts, accountants and teachers. They explain how things work and how to read a document. They do not assess your finances, recommend products or act on your behalf, and a session is not a substitute for a licensed adviser.
The starter workbook and Saturday session assume no prior reading of markets. The after-school club runs across a school term and expects regular attendance. The online cohort moves faster and suits people who can set aside a fixed weekly slot.
Exercises use publicly available company reports, so you can repeat them later on your own. Worksheets and the starter workbook stay with you. Session recordings are not distributed, which keeps the room open for questions people would rather not ask in public.
We can explain how a share price is quoted, why spreading money across different holdings changes the range of outcomes, and how inflation erodes a salary that does not move. What we cannot do is tell you what to do with your own money. That decision, and the consequences of it, stay with you. If you are unsure whether a programme fits, ask before you enrol rather than after.
Feedback from weekend workshops in Woodstock, after-school clubs and the online cohort. These are the parts people say changed how they read a report, plan a month or judge a pitch.
Saturday workshop, Woodstock
I came in thinking a low share price meant a cheap company. We spent the second half of the session pulling apart an annual report and matching the numbers to what the business actually does. That one exercise fixed a mistake I had been making for months.
Thandi M. — first-year student, Cape Town
After-school club, Grade 11
The budgeting module was the useful one for me. We tracked a first salary through a year of price increases and saw exactly where the money disappears. I now keep a simple sheet for transport and data, and I stopped guessing where my month goes.
Sipho N. — learner, Mitchells Plain
Online cohort
I joined because a group chat kept sending me screenshots and urgency. The session on telling holding apart from hype gave me a checklist I still use. No promises, no signals, just what questions to ask before money moves.
Ayesha K. — junior accountant, Bellville
Saturday workshop, Woodstock
Diversification finally made sense when the facilitator drew it on the board instead of quoting a definition. We worked through why one company failing should not take the whole plan with it. I left with a page of notes and a better question to ask at home.
Lerato D. — small business owner, Athlone
After-school club, Grade 10
I liked that nobody told us what to buy. We read a real company report and argued about what the numbers meant. The facilitator kept asking what could go wrong, and that habit stuck with me more than any single fact.
Bongani P. — learner, Khayelitsha
Online cohort
The inflation session was uncomfortable in a good way. Seeing what a salary loses over twelve months made me rethink how I save. I finished the starter workbook the same week and started comparing my own spending to last year's prices.
Nadia F. — graduate trainee, Observatory