U-Turn Homeless Ministries' 23 second-hand clothing and household goods shops across Cape Town are the commercial engine behind its homelessness rehabilitation model: social enterprises that give work opportunities, on-the-job retail training, stipends, and a structured path to independence.

As U-Turn looks to grow this retail arm further, they've identified three areas where they believe outside expertise would help most.

First, monetising earned vouchers: designing a workable mechanism to convert the vouchers champions earn through the programme into real economic value, whether as store credit, tradeable currency within the shop network, or a bridge into formal wages.

Second, access to capital to expand the shop network: structuring the case (and identifying the right funding instruments, from impact investors to blended grant-debt facilities) to finance new store locations without compromising U-Turn's non-profit mission.

Third, sourcing pre-loved goods at scale: building reliable, larger-volume donation pipelines (corporate partnerships, retailer take-back schemes, logistics for collection) to keep 23-plus stores consistently stocked as the network grows.

Each of these is a concrete, bounded commercial problem sitting inside a mission-driven organisation. The brief is still open at this stage, so it's worth a detailed conversation with U-Turn to pin down where your input would add the most value, with the constraints of your methodology in mind.