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Jul 23, 2024 · Want to volunteer? Here’s our mega list of 55 charities and social enterprises in Singapore that give back to the community. by Honeycombers • 23 Jul 2024. Photography: DC Studio via Freepik. If you’re looking to volunteer and connect with your community, check out our big fat list of charities in Singapore with a worthy cause.
- Bethel Community Services – Lead fun activities for kids. Baking classes with kids. Image credit: Bethel Community Services via Facebook. Bethel Community Services offers an array of schemes and assistance programmes for the alleviation of poverty, suffering, ignorance or ill health.
- Singapore Anti Narcotics Association – Help former drug addicts. Image credit: SANA via Facebook. Singapore Anti Narcotics Association (SANA) was set up to prevent drug abuse in Singapore.
- Willing Hearts – Prep food for the needy. Help out in a soup kitchen. Image credit: Willing Hearts Singapore via Facebook. Willing Hearts is a 100% volunteer-run soup kitchen which cooks and distributes about 3,000 meals to the needy every day.
- Institute of Mental Health – Encourage patients with fun activities. Image credit: Matchsticks of IMH via Facebook. Singapore’s psychiatric hospital, the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) offers a range of psychiatric, counselling and rehabilitative services for its patients.
Volunteers play an important role in community building and uplifting the well-being of Singaporeans and all who live here. You are welcome to connect with agencies or schemes aligned to your interests, or browse through all the opportunities below. Not sure where to start?
Acts of volunteering and donating can help you connect with your Singapore community and make it a better place. Find your calling and support a cause close to your heart.
- Superhero Me. Superhero Me is a multidisciplinary collective advocating for inclusion through the arts. The collectve runs a specialised training programme that equips volunteers with skills to work with special needs children and to facilitate inclusive experiences among children of diverse abilities.
- Habitat for Humanity. Everyone deserves a decent home environment to live in – that's the belief behind the charity organisation Habitat for Humanity. As a volunteer, you can help the vulnerable in Singapore achieve a comfortable living environment through various initiatives: including a home rehabilitation programme called Project HomeWorks and a community clean-up called UnLitter Red Dot.
- Action for AIDS. Action for AIDS is on a mission to end HIV transmission and AIDS in Singapore by 2030. As a volunteer, you can do the important work of spreading HIV/AIDS awareness through on-ground and online activities, help with the operations of Singapore's largest not-for-profit syphilis and HIV screening centre, or take up advocacy work to end the stigma against HIV/AIDS through various conferences and platforms.
- Willing Hearts. Willing Hearts runs a soup kitchen that distributes approximately 11,000 meals to the elderly, disabled, poverty-stricken and marginalised in Singapore every day.
Local Community Service Projects inspire SMU students to enrich their worldview outside the classroom. Be Inspired, Push the Boundaries, and Continue Pushing to the Next Level of Engagement. The following projects are examples of local community service engagements by SMU students.
In the run-up to the second NTU Service Week in February 2023, a few community care projects have kicked off. Gather fellow alumni, colleagues or family and friends to lend a hand. Start your volunteering journey by taking part in these projects.
