Community
Empowering Lives, for Life
At SP Group, we are committed to sustained giving and meeting the needs of the community with meaningful and lasting impact.
We raise funds and contribute to programmes that support vulnerable seniors, youth, as well as children and their families.
The SP Heartware Fund, established in 2005 in partnership with Community Chest, supports services for 25,000 vulnerable seniors. These include befriending, rehabilitation, counselling and caregiver support.
SP Kids at Heart helps children from low-income families to enhance social mobility. In partnership with KidSTART Singapore, the funds provide for educational resources, bursaries, and assistance for home and developmental needs.
Our staff also contribute generously to the Fund, which SP matches dollar for dollar. In addition, SP underwrites all fund-raising and operational costs of the Fund and programmes, so that all donations will go fully to the social service organisations the Fund supports.
Volunteerism is an integral part of our DNA. Our staff volunteers, known as SP Heart Workers are passionate about giving their time, skills and effort to improve quality of life. They drive outreach activities for the vulnerable and underserved throughout the year.
We are honoured to be recognised for our sustained giving and grateful to all our staff, business associates, customers and the public for your contributions over the years, in support of more social services recipients.
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SP Kids at Heart
SP Kids at Heart was launched in June 2021 to support young children from low-income families in their learning journey.
More than 5,000 children under KidSTART have benefited from learning tools, including digital devices for home-based learning. To foster early literacy and parent-child bonding, new initiatives were launched in 2022, including the KidSTART Sea Adventures interactive play and KidSTART Stories, which provides lower-income families with their own mini-library to nurture reading habits.
Our SP Heart Workers are also on hand to support the outreach programmes.
Supporting Youth
SP is committed to empowering youth with access to different developmental pathways, to pursue their education and career aspirations, regardless of their socio-economic background.
We extended our support to the youth segment In April 2022 with a S$1.35 million donation to launch the inaugural SP Group Engineering Study Awards. Over three years, 450 engineering students from lower-income families at the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) will receive monthly financial support.
In May 2023, SP announced a S$750,000 donation to Youth Guidance Outreach Services (YGOS) which helped launch Singapore’s first-of-its-kind mobile youth engagement outpost powered by an electric van. SP is also providing free charging for this EV on Singapore’s largest fast-charging network. In addition to this mobile outpost to extend YGOS’ outreach, the funding also enabled the refurbishment of two youth centres in Woodlands and Ang Mo Kio and ramped up operations in Jurong, which has one of the highest concentrations of youth in Singapore.
Staff Volunteerism
SP Heart Workers organise outreach activities for social service users throughout the year. These include befriending activities at Senior Activity Centres, helping seniors with their grocery runs, conducting digital clinics and more. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, SP Heart Workers also partnered FairPrice to bring a mobile supermarket to the doorstep of seniors.
On the children and youth fronts, our SP Heart Workers were also actively involved in distributing learning kits to KidSTART children and their families, as well as conducting reading programmes and digital workshops at Allkin Singapore. In addition, they befriended youth at YGOS through sports and learning journeys.
SP’s staff were part of national-level efforts to provide pandemic relief to the public, including the manning of hotlines for Temasek Foundation’s Stay Prepared programme and Ministry of Health’s home recovery scheme. For the latter, SP received national recognition through the COVID-19 Resilience Certificate. Its team leader and assistant team leader received the Public Service Medal (COVID-19) and they were among 16 staff presented the COVID-19 Resilience Medal. SP also received the President’s Certificate of Commendation for sustained support and contributions to the community through donations and volunteerism during the pandemic.
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Keeping our community safe
At SP, safety is our highest priority. Staying free of accident and injury is an important part of our culture, for our community, our staff and our contractors. We organise outreach activities and produce educational resources to raise public awareness on gas safety and to prevent accidents arising from gas leaks and fires.