About Us

Short History

Guild Cottage was started in 1907 as a home for orphans and children in distress. Since that time it has a long record of looking after children in need mainly by supplying long-term residential care. Since the early 1980's Guild Cottage has developed into a treatment centre for sexually abused and traumatised children. Over the past decade Guild Cottage has also developed a Community Outreach Program with the objective of enlightening the community of the horrors and consequences of sexual abuse and thereby keep children safe and out of the welfare system.

Objectives of the Home

To treat abused and traumatised children and their families with the view of reunification.
To support these families through a transition period.
To provide education to community members to help them recognise and prevent abuse.
To teach cascade of learning principles to get maximum coverage from the teaching.

Management Structures
Patrons:
Mr. Justice Edwin Cameron
Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

Director of Home
Mrs. Patricia Heslop
BSc. (Wits), B.A.Hons. (Barat USA), M.S.W. (U.I.C. USA)

Management Board
Pippa Barnes
Chairman

Douglas Hendry
BSc.(Mec. Eng.), CA (SA)  -  Treasurer

Thato Minyuku
BBusSci. LLB (UCT) -  Legal Affairs

Tendayi Gwata
BCom (UCT), PDBA (UCT) -  Secretary

Inno Monsma
ACIS, ACMA -  Fundraiser

Dvina Monsma
Public Relations

Chris Aitken
CA (SA)

Mamongae Mahlare
BSc.(Eng)(Wits), MBA (Harvard)
 
Mlungisi Mahlangu
LLB (UP)