First Nationwide Financial institution (FNB) has been named a lead empowerment associate for the WomenIN Pageant 2025, a two-day occasion in Cape City aimed toward celebrating and supporting girls entrepreneurs, professionals, and neighborhood builders throughout South Africa.
The pageant, which takes place on 13-14 November at Newlands Cricket Floor, is working below the banner: “Limitless: No Labels, No Limits, No Apologies.” FNB acknowledged the partnership is pushed by a shared objective of unlocking broader social and financial influence by empowering girls.
“As a monetary establishment, we’re intentional about supporting girls in every function they play—enterprise homeowners, leaders, caregivers, and changemakers,” mentioned Nicole Sykes, head of girls in enterprise at FNB. “Partnering with the WomenIN Pageant 2025 permits us to indicate up in a approach that’s seen, grounded, and future-focused.”
A platform for transformation
Each FNB and WomenIN, a girls’s empowerment portfolio inside the VUKA Group, acknowledged a dedication to constructing programs and offering instruments that allow girls to steer, develop, and thrive within the financial system.
“WomenIN is greater than a pageant. It’s a platform for transformation,” Sykes added. “It encapsulates and mirrors our values round entry, fairness, and constructing one thing larger than ourselves.”
The collaboration will characteristic a spread of initiatives designed to offer tangible worth to attendees. These embrace monetary wellness classes centered on cash administration and wealth-building, in addition to dynamic management roundtables. These roundtables will carry collectively trailblazers from numerous sectors by way of FNB’s Nav Market and the WomenIN platform.
FNB may also use the occasion to focus on genuine tales of women-led companies which have scaled by way of its personal enterprise growth programmes, placing a face to the influence it goals to amplify.
A protracted-term, legacy-focused imaginative and prescient
Sykes emphasised that the partnership extends past the two-day pageant, representing a long-term, legacy-focused imaginative and prescient for the financial institution.
“We’re not simply exhibiting up for the 2 days. We wish to create ongoing pathways for ladies to attach, lead, and construct lasting monetary independence,” Sykes mentioned. “We’ve constructed platforms, assets, and assist programs tailor-made particularly for ladies in enterprise. We’re not new to this. This partnership simply takes it additional.”
Nazlee Fredericks-Maharaj, founding father of WomenIN, described the collaboration as a catalyst and a “name to motion.”
“That is larger than an occasion or a marketing campaign. It’s a motion,” she mentioned. “Along with FNB, we’re creating house for ladies to dream larger, develop stronger, and join in ways in which have actual influence—constructing not simply confidence and mushy expertise, but additionally monetary literacy and sensible onerous expertise that empower girls to succeed personally and professionally.”
The occasion encourages girls entrepreneurs and professionals to attend the FNB-hosted classes and be part of the financial institution’s digital channels for ongoing academic programmes and initiatives tailor-made to girls in enterprise.
“That is greater than a partnership, it’s a motion,” Sykes concluded. “We invite each girl to step into her energy, join, and develop with us. We’re right here to stroll the journey with girls, whether or not you’re constructing a enterprise, main a group, supporting your loved ones and social circles or shaping your future. FNB is your associate in progress.”
