ACR HUB · ACR COMMUNITY NPC · REG. 2024/211555/08

Free family mediation for Gauteng’s Children’s Courts.

ACR Hub is home to a NABFAM-accredited mediation project working inside Gauteng’s Children’s Courts, and to the Mentorship Programme that trains the mediators who staff it — all delivered free to families, and funded entirely by donors and corporate partners.

NABFAM-recognised Mentorship Programme
Nominated, PILnet Global Pro Bono Awards 2026
Delivered with ProBono.Org
File 0001 — What ACR Hub does

One coalition. Three ways it works.

ACR Community NPC administers a court-based mediation service that resolves care, contact and parental-responsibility disputes for families who could not otherwise afford it — turning agreements into enforceable orders of court, inside the Children’s Court itself.

That service runs on two things: a growing bench of NABFAM-accredited volunteer mediators trained through ACR Academy’s Mentorship Programme, and a coalition of partners and corporate funders who make it possible to keep the courts staffed.

Delivering sinceMay 2023
Courts served2 (Soweto & Johannesburg)
Cost to familiesFree
MentorshipNABFAM-recognised ↗
File 0002 — Where to start

Three ways into ACR Hub.

Service

The Court Projects

Free family mediation inside Gauteng’s Children’s Courts — how it works, who it’s for, and the impact it’s had since 2023.

Explore the Court Projects →
Training

Mentorship Programme

A NABFAM-recognised, three-month pathway that turns accredited mediators into court-ready practitioners.

See the Programme →
Support

Fund a Court

Corporate and individual giving that keeps a Children’s Court staffed with free mediation, month on month.

See How Funding Works →
File 0003 — Impact since May 2023

Numbers that hold up in court.

934
Free mediation sessions delivered
738
Matters resolved by agreement
3,109
People reached across cases
~87%
Positive-outcome rate

See the full impact record →

File 0004 — Recognition

Recognised by the people who’d know.

2024

ProBono.Org Award for Best Mediation Contribution

Presented to the project’s leaders for its work inside the Children’s Courts.

Apr 2026

NABFAM endorses the Mentorship Programme

Recognised as a practical pathway toward family mediator accreditation.

2026

Nominated, PILnet Global Pro Bono Awards

Nominated by ProBono.Org in the Local Impact division.

Every court we run costs about R20,000 a month.

That’s what it takes to keep one Children’s Court staffed with free mediation. Corporate partners can fund a court directly through our Fund a Court scheme.