1. ComLink+ Community Tuition programme

ComLink+ Maths tuition programme is held to support Pri 1 to Sec 4 students who are staying in rental blocks.

Commitment & Duration of Sessions:

School Days Every Monday, Jan 2025 - Oct 2025, 7.30pm ~ 9pm

Venue: Boon lay Market level 2

Procedures to register & point of contact:  

Ms Irene Soh

irenesoh1978@gmail.com 

2. ComLink+ Youth - Bake to give back 

ComLink+ Youth will be taught a healthy cookies recipe and after that bake to give to sponsors who have been supporting Comlink+ families for the past year.

Commitment & Duration of Sessions: 

Learn to bake workshop will be held in 8 or 15 Dec 2024

Mass baking of 100 bottles will be on  11 & 12 Jan 2025.

Procedures to register & point of contact:  

Ms Irene Soh

irenesoh1978@gmail.com 

1. Targetting Youth (13 - 17 years old): TGH (drop in)
   Befriender - the Befriender role can include, but is not limited to, engaging participants in candid conversations, free and easy games (whether indoors or outdoors e.g. board games, pool, PlayStation, sports), as well as structured activity segments e.g. food-making, craft, group discussions based on a select theme/topic

Commitment & Duration of Sessions: Thurs 3-7pm, weekly, GRIT@Nanyang (977 Jurong West)

Requirements: 4 students weekly OR 8 students, alternate fortnightly ; Fixed grouping preferred ; 2 male and 2 female students per week.

2. Targeting Youth, including pre-teens (11 to 15): TGX (drop-in)

Befriender - the Befriender role can include, but is not limited to, engaging participants in candid conversations, free and easy games (whether indoors or outdoors e.g. board games, pool, PlayStation, sports), as well as structured activity segments e.g. food-making, craft, group discussions based on a select theme/topic

Commitment & Duration of Sessions: Tues OR Wed 4-7pm, weekly, GRIT@Boon Lay (TBC)

Requirements: 4 students weekly OR 8 students, alternate fortnightly ; Fixed grouping preferred ; 3 male and 3 female students per week.

3. Targeting Children (7 to 12): TGH+ (drop-in)

Befriender - the Befriender role can include, but is not limited to, engaging participants in candid conversations, free and easy games (whether
    indoors or outdoors e.g. board games, pool, PlayStation, sports), as well as structured activity segments e.g. food-making, craft, group
    discussions based on a select theme/topic

Commitment & Duration of Sessions: Wed OR Fri 3-6pm, weekly, GRIT@Nanyang (977 Jurong West)

Requirements: 4 students weekly OR 8 students, alternate fortnightly ; Fixed grouping preferred ; 4 male and 4 female students per week

Procedures to register & point of contact: Sign up as a group with Daryl Lee (daryl-lee@lakeside.org.sg), indicating which programme you would like to join. 

Heartware Network Community Internship - River Hongbao 2025 

River Hongbao 2025 is a 10-day extravaganza of lights, sights, and sounds to usher in the Year of the Snake. It will be held at the scenic Gardens by the Bay from 27 January to 05 February 2025. Since its first rendition in 1987, River Hongbao has become the largest and most anticipated Chinese New Year event in Singapore! Heartware Network is proud to be a part of this celebration, supporting the Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations (SFCCA) in the management of the volunteer ushers. During this celebration, volunteers will have a chance to interact with the spectators and visitors to the event and gain valuable interpersonal skills. On top of enjoying an immersive experience into the rich Chinese culture, volunteers will be exposed to diverse communities and foster a deeper sense of appreciation for other cultures. 

For the students, they will be supporting the Heartware River Hongbao 2025 in assisting the staff in volunteers' training and deployments on the ground to engage the visitors during the actual event period. This includes assisting in creating training slides in Chinese and liaising with volunteers. Support any other ad-hoc tasks for other programmes supporting children/seniors.

1. Commitment & Duration of Sessions: 2nd January until 3rd February (Mon to Fri 9am - 6pm) 

2. Procedures to register & point of contact: Mik Sze (hwhr@heartware-network.org)  

3. Any selection procedures (if have): Able to converse and write well in Chinese. Enjoy working with youths and engaging in project management. 

Heartware Network Volunteering Opportunities
Details, fact sheet and sign up procedures can be found in the weblinks provided below: 

1. [HW-RHB25] Heartware - River Hongbao 2025 - Youth Liaison Committee (YLC) (weekly commitment till 5 Feb 2025)
   https://www.youthbank.sg/eventdetail/?eventid=1166 

2. [HW-RHB25] Heartware - River Hongbao 2025 - Volunteer Leaders (commitment on selected dates till 5 Feb 2025)
   https://www.youthbank.sg/eventdetail/?eventid=1168 

3. [HW-RHB25] Heartware - River Hongbao 2025 - General Volunteers (commitment on selected dates till 5 Feb 2025)
   https://www.youthbank.sg/eventdetail/?eventid=1169 

4. [HWTP25] Heartware Tuition Programme - Youth Liaison Committee® (YLC®) (regular commitment through the year 2025)
   https://www.youthbank.sg/eventdetail/?eventid=1192 

Do visit https://www.youthbank.sg/events to check out other possibilities!

1. Meals-On-Wheels(MOW)_ Delivery of Warm Meals to Elderly

Overview: Students will help deliver warm meals to elderly individuals who have mobility issues, ensuring they receive nutritious food.

Date and Times: 

21 December 2024(Sat) 3.15PM-5.30PM & 

18 January 2025(Sat), 3.15pm-5.30pm

Point of Contact: Sign up with Ms Connie Cheong HP: 91185 499

2. NTUC_Jurong Spring Nursing Home Visits

Overview: Students will engage with residents through chatting, playing games, and assisting with lunchtime feeding, fostering meaningful interactions.

Date and Times: 28 December 2024(Sat) 10.00AM-12 NOON & 25 January 2025(Sat), 10.00AM-12 NOON

Point of Contact: Sign up with Ms Connie Cheong HP: 91185 499

3. Christmas Event for Seniors

Overview: We will organize an outing for seniors, where students can help accompany and support them during the event.

Date and Time: This event will be held on 14 December 2024 (Sat) in the morning.

Point of Contact: Sign up with Ms Connie Cheong HP: 91185 499

Selection Procedures: Students interested in participating will need to express their interest beforehand. 

Sign up as a team to organize a CNY celebrations for seniors at Kaki Kampung Seniors Wellness Centre on 3 Feb! 

Work for volunteers: Meetings with staff for planning CNY Celebrations on selected dates, assisting the staff with developing training slides for volunteers, developing resources for Arts and Crafts activities etc. 

Sign up with Ms Joyce Wong at joycewong-sc@lakeside.org.sg 

 Opportunities can be found here: https://www.minds.org.sg/category/volunteer/ 

Plan 2025 CNY Celebrations for Migrant Workers 

Are you looking for a meaningful way to spend your Gap Exploration Month in January 2025? Join the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), Assurance, Care and Engagement (ACE) Group in organising an unforgettable Chinese New Year celebration for our migrant workers in Singapore living far away from their home!

What you'll do:

• Plan and coordinate CNY festivities

• Design engaging activity booths

• Design posters and publicity materials in line with ACE branding guidelines 

• Curate exciting performances

• Recruit and manage student volunteers

• Opportunity to work with professional event organisers

• Guidance from MOM staff

Gain valuable experience in:

• Event management

• Leadership and teamwork

• Cultural sensitivity

• Project planning and execution

Perfect for students seeking hands-on experience in event organisation and community engagement

Commitment & Duration of Sessions: 

• Commitment period: November 2024 to 19 Jan 2025 for Planning Sessions on selected dates

• Event Date: Sunday, 19 Jan 2025, 5pm to 8pm 

Procedures to register & point of contact:  Sign up now https://go.gov.sg/rvhscny2025  for your Gap Exploration Month with MOM. Limited spots available! 

Contact Person: Ms Regina Lim Regina_LIM@pa.gov.sg

We will be able to provide opportunities in:

1. Regular-commitment volunteering opportunities

2. Event-based volunteering opportunities

Regular-commitment volunteering opportunities, 

we have a program named Nanyang Student Assistance Scheme (SAS or Nanyang Sayang).

The programme provides free tuition and character development program to the low-income families staying at the rental blocks in Nanyang constituency.

The students can be tutor or mentor to the group of children of Primary 1 to Secondary 4, focus on Primary School students. 

Tuition (Homework Guidance) happens on Monday to Friday, except Thursday, 730 to 9pm at 967A activity centre. 

Mentoring session happens on one of the weekends monthly, 10am to 1pm.

CDC Vouchers Distribution for Seniors

In January, there will be the launch of CDC vouchers which the students can be engaged to triage, usher and assist senior residents to understand the needs of the elderly while the seniors are waiting. Contact us to find out what are the dates. 

Event-based volunteering opportunities

• Organise EMB (Edusave Merit Bursary) Awards Presentation Ceremony (4 Jan 2025) from mid Nov 2024. 

1. Admin Support 

Brief overview: Backend admin support 

Commitment & Duration of Sessions: No fixed commitment period. Weekdays, excluding public holiday, between 9am and 5pm at NKF Centre

Note: Slots are booked on a first come first served basis

Procedures to register & point of contact: Interested students are to email Ms Selena Tan @ selena.tan@nkfs.org directly. 

2. Befriending Sessions

Brief overview: Befriending sessions in dialysis centres where volunteers can befriend the patients by talking to them or doing simple activities that only require usage of 1 hand

Commitment & Duration of Sessions: Any day between Monday and Saturday. Frequency: can be quite flexible, a few regular sessions across 2-5 months. Timings may vary, depending on the dialysis centre chosen: AM: 8am to 10am / NN: 1pm to 3pm / PM: 6pm to 8pm

Dialysis Centre: https://nkfs.org/contact-us/dialysis-centre-locations/ (Unavailable Centres: NKF Centre & Sengkang Community Hospital)

Procedures to register & point of contact: Interested students are to email Ms Selena Tan @ selena.tan@nkfs.org directly.

Any selection procedures (if have): In groups of 3 to 10 pax. All volunteers to wear surgical masks at all times. Reusable masks are not allowed. Approval required. Need to provide NKF with the information (on date, frequency, timing, and dialysis centre) at least 2 weeks before the first session. Volunteers are required to submit a Registration Sheet 1 week before the first session. Preferably to be fully vaccinated against Covid

3. Kidney Health Advocacy 

Brief overview: Kidney Health Advocacy (running NKF’s social media and/or doing an awareness campaign in sch about Kidney Health awareness in collaboration with NKF) 

Commitment & Duration of Sessions: Flexible/ad-hoc. 

Procedures to register & point of contact: Interested students are to email Ms Selena Tan @ selena.tan@nkfs.org directly.  

• NTUC Health Active Ageing Centre (Care) (Jurong Central Plaza)
  Blk 493 Jurong West Street 41, #02-01, Singapore 640493 

  • Gap Month details: 5 days a week, 9am-6pm; 1 student required

• NTUC Health Active Ageing Centre (Boon Lay)
  179 Boon Lay Drive #01-448 Singapore 640179

  • Gap Month details: 5 days a week, 9am-6pm; 1 student required

• NTUC Health Active Ageing Centre (Care) (Bukit Merah Silat)
  Block 141 Jalan Bukit Merah #01-1172, Singapore 160141

  • Gap Month details: 

  • Engagement of seniors who have yet to register and participate in centre activities through house visits to share about centre activities 

  • 10 students, in pairs, visit seniors in Bukit Merah Silat and Spottiswoode area

  • Timing - Morning around 10 - 12pm, Afternoon around 2-5 pm. Weekly minimum 2 days would be preferred.

  • Where required, to support the centre with Centre activities.

• NTUC Health Active Ageing Centre (Nanyang)
  817 Jurong West St 81 #01-30 Singapore 640817

  • Gap Month details: 5 days a week, 9am-6pm; 1 student required

NPARKS: COMMUNITY gARDENING@jurong east

Brief overview: 

Work with other elderly volunteers to help out at a community rooftop garden in any way that might be required such as: weeding, pruning, soil mixing, transplanting, sowing, clearing of trellis, making scarecrow, etc.

Volunteering timing is early morning 7am-10am only as it gets very hot after.

Commitment & Duration of Sessions: 

Flexible duration and commitment. Advised to form groups of four or more in participating.

Procedures to register & point of contact:  

Email Mdm Kamisah Atan at sunhabel@gmail.com to register

Opportunities can be found here: https://calendly.com/rcvolunteers 

1. Adaptive Sports
   By learning skills to complete in bowling, basketball, floorball and many more sports! These sports have been modified to be wheelchair-friendly and super fun. RV SCS has been anchoring this project since 2022, sign up and come onboard to volunteer alongside your JC2 seniors.
   Commitment: Mondays & Tuesdays (PM) 
   
   

2. Creative Movement
   Creative movement is where we involve daily objects we see around our surroundings. By this, we actually uses mental images (dance imagery) to stimulate, recall physical movement and reinforcing the seniors’ kinetic memory.

The aim for this programme is to make the process of ageing a dynamic and meaningful one, and for the seniors to have a sense of connection and control over their bodies, however abled they are. It also improve residents’ well-being and perception of quality of life through positive mind-body connect and social interaction.

We encourage the residents to re-look at their everyday surroundings and activities, to find new meanings and
relationships to them. The everyday can be interesting and purposeful.

RV SCS has been anchoring this project since 2022, sign up and come onboard to volunteer alongside your JC2 seniors.
Commitment: Mondays & Tuesdays (PM)

Please write in to Ms Wendy Lim at wendylim@stjh.org.sg if you would like to find out more.

Grassroots Youth Volunteer Programme

No. of vacancies: 10 student volunteers

Programme Highlights 

• Attachment at Meet-the-People Sessions (MPS) on weekly Mon evenings: Shadowing the letter writers and interviewers, rotation amongst different functions

• Grocery distribution on selected weekday nights: Assisting existing youth volunteers with routine grocery distribution to rental blocks

• House visits (optional): Assisting volunteers with mobile MPS at weekend house visits (subject to house visit schedule) 

• Lunar New Year Celebrations (optional): Assisting LNY committee with the execution of 2025 LNY celebrations (e.g. Hong Bao distribution) 

• Fireside chat: Dialogue with Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Mr Shawn Huang and senior volunteers

Point of Contact

Sign up with Mr David Chia (david@greensgcollab.org) and Ms Carole See (carole.seepg@pcf.org.sg). Contact Mr David Chia for any further enquiries. 

Taman Jurong Youth Network

Taman Jurong Constituency Office together with Taman Jurong Youth Network will be happy to host a team of students for this.  The team can expect to experience a mix of regular volunteering initiatives on weekends (where they turn up on the day of the event) and 1-2 event-based volunteering initiatives (with pre-event planning and post-event follow-up) that will be either on weekday evenings or a weekend.

No prior experience is required as the initiatives we have identified below are introductory in nature.  If possible, we would have a slight preference for students who are living within/near Taman Jurong or who are interested to volunteer long-term in Taman Jurong.

For the best experience, we would recommend that students do at least one regular volunteering initiative highlighted below and at least one event-based volunteering initiative highlighted below.  This should take up an aggregate of around 15-18 hours (3 x half-days).

Regular volunteering initiatives

For the regular volunteering initiatives, the dates are tentatively as follows:

1. 11/18 January mornings (Saturday) - students will help out at a yearly welfare event where we distribute welfare hong bao packets to Taman Jurong seniors.  We are expecting more than 2,000 seniors over around 10 sessions.

2. 18 January (around 3pm to 8pm) / 19 January (9am to 1pm) / 25 January (9am to 4pm) - students will help out at Edusave ceremonies where primary / secondary school students residing in Taman Jurong collect their education awards.

For both volunteering initiatives, students can expect to be involved in registration, ushering and crowd control.

Event-based initiatives

For event-based initiatives, the dates are still flexible and subject to the availability of our community partners as well.  Two projects that we are exploring are as follows:

1. Project Elderheart (weekday afternoon/evening) - a befriending session with elderly residents at THK Active Ageing Centre @ Taman Jurong.  The session may be Chinese New Year themed and would involve around 20 elderly residents.

2. YOU-th Access (weekend half-day) - a half-day “behind-the-scenes” tour for TJ residents to a part of Singapore not usually accessible to members of the public.  These can be places of cultural/historical significance to Singapore, or an industry visit to a business operating within Singapore.

For the event-based initiative, students can expect to be involved with planning the event (e.g., publicity, logistics, programmes) as well as post-event follow up (e.g., post-event emails to participants, post-event publicity).  We may require the students to be available in December and early February for this as well.

Interested students can write to Ms Ng Ming Min (NG_Ming_Min@pa.gov.sg)

and Mr Teh Chee Yang (teh.cheeyang@tjyouthnetwork.sg) to indicate their interest and availability by 23 November 2024 (Friday), and we should be able to confirm the selection by early December.  

This organisation conducts a range of activities at their Active Ageing Centres, from physical exercises, cognitive activities, learning classes, and social gatherings and outings. 

Opportunities

On a weekly basis, more than 60 programs are conducted, and students can volunteer to help out in these programmes. 

We are also open to students proposing activities to be conducted (so long as no gambling and no meat involved). Some examples given include conducting digital literacy classes, such as in the use of generative AI tools that are relevant in raising the seniors' quality of life, organising outings for the seniors such as to the Science Centre or the Chinese Garden, conduct classes on healthy eating / drinking, pair up with seniors in Nintendo sports, or to assist in the collection and distribution of bread from BreadTalk outlets at West Gate. 

Commitment & Duration of Sessions: No requirements, the organisation leaves it up to students to decide, though they do recommend about 1-2 hours per week. If students want to propose activities, the recommended duration is 1 hour per session.

Procedures to register & point of contact: Email Mr Lee Weng Foo (Centre manager) at wengfoo.lee@tzuchi.org.sg to find out more 

Any selection procedures (if have): No selection procedures, except the need to be respectful. In general, this organisation is quite flexible and easy-going 

We are recruiting for two roles at different sites! 

1. Volunteer Befriender
   Description: Provide in-person support, encouragement, and engaging activities to help children develop literacy skills and foster a love for learning.
   Commitment: 8 specific Saturdays from 4 January to 1 March 
   Locations & Sign Up Links:
   Kampong Chai Chee https://go.gov.sg/kl-kbcc-vb
   Boon Lay https://go.gov.sg/kl-blyn-vb
   Jurong East https://go.gov.sg/kl-jelh-vb

2. Volunteer Coordinator
   Description: Oversee and support new volunteers while managing weekly sessions, facilitating teamwork, and planning educational activities to enhance children's social skills and literacy.
   Commitment: 10 - 12 Saturdays from 4 January to 31 May
   Locations & Sign Up Links:
   Kampong Chai Chee https://go.gov.sg/kl-kbcc-vc
   Boon Lay https://go.gov.sg/kl-blyn-vc
   Woodlands https://go.gov.sg/kl-wlcc-vc