(a) Assist members to become legally compliant, as per national regulations.
(b) Assist members to prepare applications for exemption from the duty to prepare and maintain fire breaks in terms of section 15 of the act.
(c) Assist members to prepare for burning permit applications.
(d) Offer advice on compliance with the law (national veld and forest fire act).
(e) Identify high risk areas and help with risk reduction.
(f) Develop, apply and support veldfire management strategies and plans for its area.
(g) Facilitate fire break planning for communal areas and strategic fire breaks.
(h) Facilitate fire management unit preparedness.
(i) Provide management services, training, and support for communities in their efforts to manage and control veld fires.
(j) Assist in organizing training its members in firefighting, management, and prevention.
(i.) Including courses on basic fire suppression, controlled burning, infield simulation and more).
(k) Inform its members of equipment and technology available for preventing and fighting veldfires.
(l) Offer advice on integrated fire management (including fire breaks, fuel reduction, equipment needed, etc.).
(m) Provide firefighting resources to members at a fee, when available.
(n) Make rules which bind its members.
(o) Identify the ecological conditions that affect the fire danger.
(p) Regularly communicate the fire danger rating referred to in sections 9 and 10 of the Act to its members.
(q) Watch the advanced fire information system (AFIS), which provides early fire detection warning.
(r) Support awareness: media, social media, and public.
(s) Appoint personnel to ensure compliance to the act and to improve management capacity within the association,
 (t) Provide technical support and information to members, including instances where insurance claims are being investigated, when possible.
(u) Provide in the strategy for agreed mechanisms for the co-ordination of actions with adjoining fire protection associations.
(v) Conclude agreements with adjoining fire protection associations relating to matters of common interest and collaboration, where appropriate.
(w) Support stakeholder engagement (including with the fire brigade, Eskom, farmers’ associations, working on fire, municipality, forestry, Transnet, Sanral, GKFPA and SANParks, NGO’s, national government departments, donors, conservancies, landscape initiatives, and more.).