Committee of Supply 2026

Bringing people together through arts and heritage

Promoting multiculturalism through arts and heritage

• $20m Multicultural Arts Programme Grant over 5 years to boost multicultural art development

• More traditional arts and cross-cultural programmes and performances through ArtsEverywhere@CDC

• Incorporate multicultural elements in Arts Education Programme for preschools

• Two-year Ethnic Fusion Dance Programme for secondary school students to train students from different schools in traditional dance forms

• Enhanced funding for traditional and multicultural arts programmes under the Enhanced Artist-in-School Scheme

• Malay Heritage Centre to reopen on 25 April. It will expand its role to preserve and promote Malay cultural identity through research and placemaking

• Indian Heritage Centre will engage Singapore Indian community to deepen understanding of the Singapore Indian culture within our multicultural context

• New Placemaking Project Office will work with local stakeholders to enhance character of historic districts

• Two new Heritage Activation Nodes (HAN) in Telok Blangah and Tiong Bahru to celebrate the neighbourhoods’ heritage

• Engaging citizens via the Little India Citizen Engagement Project to document heritage business stories

Connecting through shared experiences

Nurturing more confident youths

• OBS Coney will open in 2H2026 and all secondary 3 students will have the opportunity to grow friendships with peers from diverse backgrounds by 2030

Connecting through shared experiences

• Sports Facilities Master Plan (SFMP)

  • Expand access to quality sport facilities

    • Build 50 new multipurpose courts for badminton or pickleball use over next 5 years

    • Completing the renovation at the existing Queenstown and Hougang Sport Centres, and the new Punggol Regional Sport Centre within a year

• Expansion of school sports

  • New grant for Multi-School CCA Teams to create more opportunities for students to train and play sports together

  • Expand School Sports Fiesta to approximately 32 schools by 2027, so that more students from different schools can play various sports together

Supporting active citizenry

• New Indian Engagement and Development Committee (INEI) to work with Indian community organisations to uplift the community, develop youth leaders and strengthen cohesion

Encouraging an active and caring citizenry that contributes to society

Supporting active citizenry

• $50m SG Partnerships Fund to support projects led by individuals, ground-ups, and Singapore-registered organisations, creating positive change for communities across Singapore

Galvanising organisations

• Growing corporate volunteerism through VolunteerInc with the Singapore Business Federation, aiming to engage 6,000 employees from 600 companies over 5 years

• $30m over 10 years to support transformation of co-operatives

• New initiatives from Alliance for Action on Integration of Foreign Professionals to better integrate foreign professionals into workplace and community

Enabling Singaporeans to live better through arts

• Research study with NIE, NAC and Esplanade to study how arts programmes enhance adolescents’ creativity and socio-emotional development

• NAC x SingHealth Community Hospitals x AIC collaboration for research and programmes on arts for senior wellbeing

Making sports inclusive

• Disability Sports Master Plan update

  • 21 projects funded by Enabling Sports Fund (ESF), supported by the President’s Challenge

  • They can benefit over 8,000 persons with disabilities across more than 20 sports

• Active Health – Expanding programming for seniors

  • Update on Frailty Prevention Programme (FPP) – Expand Combat Age-related Loss of Muscle (CALM) Programme to 5,500 seniors and 180 Active Ageing Centres by end 2026

  • Seniors National Games to expand participation, with target to engage 5,000 seniors across Singapore in 2026

Uplifting individuals to help them achieve their full potential

Next bound ambition for high performance sports

• ​Formation of SpexSG on 1 April 2026 - consolidating High Performance Sport Institute, Singapore Sports School and Unleash the Roar! into single high-performance entity to power the next bound of sporting excellence

Building sustainable careers in the arts

• Creative Entrepreneurship Programme to help artists and practitioners grow their career

• Arts legal support to strengthen arts self-employed persons’ (SEPs) legal literacy

Nurturing more confident youths

• Somerset Belt Youth CoLab for youths to shape programmes and curate spaces across Somerset Belt and *SCAPE

• Expand Mentoring SG through partnerships with IHLs and partners to create programmes for 11,000 students annually by 2030