THE RECLAIM CAMISSA TRUST No. IT 2882/2010
RECLAIM CAMISSA - a Non-Profit Trust (Public Benefit Organisation) was constituted on 9th March 2010; and registered with the Master of the High Court of the Western Cape, 27th October 2010. The organisation has since applied for 18A (tax exempt) status as a NPO.
The organisation provides a stewardship for the waters that flow from Table Mountain to the Atlantic Ocean. It serves as a mechanism by which funds will be raised to implement a program that will reclaim Cape Town’s central city connection to the Water, ensuring that the public are able to enjoy the right to this Water; and that it remain in good ecological health.
The organisation provides a stewardship for the waters that flow from Table Mountain to the Atlantic Ocean. It serves as a mechanism by which funds will be raised to implement a program that will reclaim Cape Town’s central city connection to the Water, ensuring that the public are able to enjoy the right to this Water; and that it remain in good ecological health.
GOVERNANCE AND STRUCTURE OF THE ORGANISATION
The organisation is membership based with a governing BOARD OF TRUSTEES as the highest decision making structure.
To ensure a wide range of stakeholder, expertise and professional backgrounds - the group comprises individuals from a range of disciplines, thus ensuring wide provenance for valuable contribution.
*Please note that since the original TRUST DEED was signed on 9 March 2010, the governing BOARD OF TRUSTEES has had resignations and new members appointed.
To ensure a wide range of stakeholder, expertise and professional backgrounds - the group comprises individuals from a range of disciplines, thus ensuring wide provenance for valuable contribution.
*Please note that since the original TRUST DEED was signed on 9 March 2010, the governing BOARD OF TRUSTEES has had resignations and new members appointed.
VISION
In the future the people of Cape Town will gather around the common heritage of CAMISSA, the very waters that defined the location of the city, reflecting the public past and embracing a new civic infrastructure - this time inspired by a deliberate recognition and respect for the social; cultural and ecological significance of this Water.
The aim is that a sustainable approach to Water use, planning, design and management be put in place that is based on the intrinsic value of Water as a significant public resource that is not separate from the value of land and landscape. Society would have been made mindful of the role of Water in the city landscape; and both public and private institutions that manage Water and associated public assets would realise that the business as usual approach to Water and land management is unsustainable.
The people of Cape Town and those that visit, will be able to gather around the common heritage of CAMISSA, the very waters that defined the location of the city. Reflecting the public past and embracing a new civic infrastructure - this time inspired by a deliberate recognition and respect for the social, cultural and ecological significance of this water.
RECLAIM CAMISSA will have put in place the infrastructure to connect people to this vital resource, reconnecting urban public places by celebrating the waters that link mountain to sea, past to future, and people to the environment.
The aim is that a sustainable approach to Water use, planning, design and management be put in place that is based on the intrinsic value of Water as a significant public resource that is not separate from the value of land and landscape. Society would have been made mindful of the role of Water in the city landscape; and both public and private institutions that manage Water and associated public assets would realise that the business as usual approach to Water and land management is unsustainable.
The people of Cape Town and those that visit, will be able to gather around the common heritage of CAMISSA, the very waters that defined the location of the city. Reflecting the public past and embracing a new civic infrastructure - this time inspired by a deliberate recognition and respect for the social, cultural and ecological significance of this water.
RECLAIM CAMISSA will have put in place the infrastructure to connect people to this vital resource, reconnecting urban public places by celebrating the waters that link mountain to sea, past to future, and people to the environment.
OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANISATION
The Trust is a Non-Profit Organisation of a public character, established for the object of:
- Providing a stewardship for the waters that flow from Table Mountain to the Atlantic Ocean, through the implementation of a program that will reclaim Cape Town's central city connection to the Water, by ensuring that the public is able to enjoy the right to safe and sufficient Water; and that this Water remains in good ecological health.
- Increasing access to Water as a scarce economic resource and assist in reducing pressure on the Greater Cape Town Municipal Area's Water resources.
- Facilitating the development of the framework through institutional and civic collaboration, to advance an effective and sustainable system for the socio-ecological link of Cape Town’s CBD.
- Advocating for the preservation, restoration, and transformation of the (environmental and historical) heritage of the lost spaces associated with the Water system, into a web of public landscapes where people will be enabled to learn about our past, present and future in an integrated way.
- Promoting and collaborating to reclaim not only the vital natural resource, but the related land, infrastructure and associated cultural landscape; through the implementation of key projects as ‘bite size chunks’ of the program; and promote these sites as places of interest to both Capetonians and visitors.
- Enacting public awareness by co-ordinating, facilitating and implementing an environmental and cultural education campaign connected to this Water, that will capture the imagination of the public.
- Procuring the funding for ongoing expenses in attaining the objectives of the organisation.
LEGAL ENTITY
Click here, to view the original THE RECLAIM CAMISSA TRUST DEED signed on 9 March 2010.
KEY PARTNERSHIPS
RECLAIM CAMISSA is to establish key partnership agreements via a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), with the following:
- City of Cape Town (CoCT)
- Other stakeholders, civic organisations and private businesses to benefit the implementation of the programme.
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