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GOLDEN VALLEY CASINO & LODGE’S ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT:
Body Devine Day Spa
JOINT REPORT OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER continued
With the soft opening of the Golden Valley Lodge in March 2008, we converted the two conference venues into temporary spa treatment
facilities and invited two local treatment facilities to provide our MVGs with some pampering at reasonable prices.
This project was extremely well received by our guests and our general manager at the time, Felicia Roman, started networking with a few local
service providers to check the feasibility of bringing such an offering to the Lodge on a permanent basis.
Having had a strong enterprise development background herself, she always knew that this would be in the form of a community development
and upliftment project. As fate would have it, two ladies broke away from one of the larger spas in Worcester and started their own business
in town. At the same time they presented Felicia with a business plan for a day spa on the premises.
After many negotiations and fine tuning, the parties reached consensus and The Golden Valley Lodge Day Spa became a reality. We provided
them with one of our rooms and gave them all the necessary assistance. The proviso was that they had to bring an empowerment partner
on board.
They managed to find this partner in the form of Gwyneth Cornelius from Goudini Spa and asked her to join the Golden Valley team, not only
as an employee, but as a partner in the business. The day spa was piloted in November 2009 and as of January 2010, the Body Devine Day Spa
cc shed its training wheels and began running its own business within The Golden Valley Lodge.
They receive all the required help and support from the Golden Valley management and are growing from strength to strength. The spa, like
any other business, has its ebb and flow periods, but all in all, it represents a great symbiotic relationship for Golden Valley and Sun International
as a whole.
Gwyneth: ‘When I got the opportunity to start working at Body Devine Day Spa I was very excited. Just the thought of being part of starting
the business was overwhelming.
Body Devine Day Spa is slowly but surely starting to grow now and we are building up a great client base. I just know that Body Devine will
grow from strength to strength.
I’m really working hard at it to make this business a great success. I want to encourage others to grab such opportunities with both hands,
because look where I am today.’
She is only 21 years old.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
8. TRANSFORMATION
Through the Sun International Community Development Trust we continue to focus on the key areas of education, health and welfare and community
development. Socio-economic development contributions for South African units amounted to R20 million, which ensured continued achievement of
the maximum 5 points for this element. Refer to page 94 for detail.
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