Committee of Supply 2022

$12m in Continued Support to Emerge Stronger

• Extension of Venue Hire Subsidy to June 2022

• Folding Arts and Culture Resilience Package features into suite of grants

  • Dedicated support for transformation projects with new Sector Transformation Fund by NAC, to improve audience experience, organisation efficiency, and diversify and expand revenue streams

  • Inclusion of Organisation Transformation Grant in NHB's Heritage Research Grant and Project Grants, with increased grant quantum of up to $40,000, and new eligibility of business associations

  • Enhanced support for Self-Employed Persons (SEPs) through incorporation of SEP Grant into NAC’s existing Presentation & Participation and Capability Development grant schemes

Strengthening sector capabilities

• Recently launched Arts and Culture Digital Roadmap to promote more widespread digital adoption

• Enhancing Conditions for SEPs

  • Though capability development, improved protection and working conditions, and new ways to contribute to the creative economy

• Developing Vibrant and Inclusive Arts and Culture Spaces

  • To keep up with emerging trends and better meet the needs of our practitioners

    • Tanjong Pagar Distripark

    • 45 Armenian Street

    • Kampong Java

  • Encourage Cultural Philanthropy with $150m top-up of Cultural Matching Fund

Preserving and Celebrating our Shared Heritage

• Preservation of Padang as a National Monument on National Day 2022

• Engagements on Singapore’s second UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage nomination

• Founders’ Memorial Travelling Exhibition in April 2022

Our SG Arts & Heritage Plans 2.0

• Wider public engagements to develop next Arts and Heritage Plans

• New 5-year plans targeted for launch in 2023

Jumpstart Mass Participation Events

• New Blended Events Grant-Bring Sport Back edition of up to $50,000 per award, to be rolled out from March 2022

New ActiveSG Leagues and Competitions

Enhance ActiveSG Academies and Clubs

• New programmes and practice zones for Street Dancing in five new locations from April 2022

• Collaboration with National Sport Associations to expand offerings for the ActiveSG Badminton, Table-Tennis and Gymnastic Academies

Increased participation with Sport Interest Groups

Optimising and Repurposing Sporting Spaces

• More capacity for the return of team sport and usage by interest groups

New Para Sport Academy to benefit up to 500 participants from different disability groups across 10 sports, rolled out in phases from March 2022

First phase includes sports such as Cerebral Palsy Football, Para Canoe, Para Athletics, Wheelchair Basketball, Wheelchair Tennis and Para Swimming

New Advisory Panel for the Para Sport Academy to advise how to enhance para sport pathways and ecosystem development

Supporting the Singapore Green Plan 2030

Greener Sport Infrastructure and Precincts

• Working towards the first Green Mark SLE Platinum sport facility in Punggol Regional Sport Centre by 2024

• Plans to transform Kallang Alive precinct into a sports and recreational Green Mark District

Ensuring that all SportSG supported events attain green certification by 2023

Greater participation in 3Rs (Reduce, Recondition, Recycle)

• Expanding sport waste collection programme by 2025

• Exploring initiatives to recondition sport equipment

Rallying the sports community, including the National Sport Associations, Team Nila, and the ActiveSG Sport Centres, to advocate for sustainability practices

Extended for 5 years to catalyse support for Team Singapore through matching of donations

Expanded to cover more areas of support for High Performance Sports

Former and current Team Singapore athletes will be able to tap on Active Citizen Grant for Team Singapore athletes to start ground-up initiatives from March 2022

Collaboration with ComLink

• Providing more sport programmes in 21 different towns such as Queenstown and Bukit Merah

Mentoring Programme

• Helping youths through different life stage transitions

Bursaries, Scholarships and Internships

• Supporting youths to pursue tertiary education through a Social Innovation Scholarship

• Offering youths flexible industry attachment opportunities within SportSG

• Children, youth and persons with disabilities from low-income families, can participate in ActiveSG Academies & Clubs programmes through the SportCares Bursary Scheme

10 School Football Academies launched in Jan 2022

Strategic Partnerships with La Liga (Spain) and Borussia Dortmund (Germany)

• Regular exchange programmes and potential scholarship placement opportunities for talents identified

• Borussia Dortmund will help customise a UTR! coach development programme for promising youth coaches, to be launched in 2022

• Sharing of best practices and insights at youth development coaching workshops between local and Borussia Dortmund coaches

Workgroup to develop recommendations to strengthen the IRCCs’ capabilities, increase diversity among IRCC members, and to build more cohesive networks within the community

Recommendations to be ready later this year

Strengthening neighbourliness, increasing the mediation take-up rate, improving Community Disputes Resolution Tribunal processes, and enhancing our processes and resources for a targeted response

Mobilising partners to create interaction opportunities between Singaporeans and newcomers, share positive stories on integration, and equip people to tackle sensitive issues relating to diversity and inclusion

Refreshed e-learning module on Singapore Citizenship Journey

New “Welcome to Singapore” e-book providing comprehensive information on life in Singapore, available in April 2022

Further develop RC Centres as focal points for local community life

More accessible and better equipped centres with Smart Access Control System, community living room, and study and work spaces with laptops, progressively rolled out from the second half of 2022

34,000 people and 1,500 organisations involved in 31 Alliances for Action between June 2020 to February 2022

Contributed to over 120 projects arising from the Emerging Stronger Conversations

Visit www.sg for opportunities to play a part

Click here for more updates on the Singapore Together movement [PDF, 646 KB]

Broader Network to Drive Partnerships on Mental Health Issues

• Expand Youth Mental Well-being Network to address mental health issues beyond youths

Growing Peer Support Networks in Community

• Partner Youth Sector Organisations to run peer support programmes

• Encourage trained peer supporters from Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) to join Youth Corps Singapore, to continue serving community after graduation

Mentoring Alliance for Action

• Expand mentoring opportunities for youths through community partnerships

• Connect youths to mentoring programmes and mentors on WeConnect

Youth Corps Community Internship

• Provide IHL students with internship in community and social sectors, with priority given to ITE and poly students

Asia-Ready Exposure Programme

• Develop cross cultural skills through online and in-person programmes (when possible)

Continue to support youths to develop ground-up projects through Youth Action Challenge

Partner Mediacorp to launch digital engagement campaign on promoting constructive civic conversations

More civic participation opportunities: Partner IHLs to prototype students' works and realise their ideas

Enable youths to take ground-up action: Second season of ArtsXplore in the Belt, where youths use their skills for good, creating public installations on social causes

Place-make Somerset Belt: Platforms and funding support for youths to design and implement projects

Refresh Somerset Belt: Flexible structures and sheltered spaces, to support the range of programmes at the Belt

Topped up with a further $26.5m and extended to FY2026, helping grow charities’ capabilities in governance, management and operational efficiencies

Creating more volunteering opportunities for people to contribute to the community while fulfilling their volunteering aspirations