Award Schemes

Singapore Youth Awards

As highest national youth honour in Singapore, the Singapore Youth Award is an annual ceremony that confers national honour upon youths in Singapore who have significantly achieved excellence and contributed to the society in the following fields:

• Arts & Culture
• Community & Youth Services
• Entrepreneurship
• Science & Technology
• Sports & Adventure

If you are keen to find out more about the award or know of someone worthy of this accolade, please check out the Singapore Youth Award website for information on the SYA Hall of Fame.

EcoFriend Award

The EcoFriend Award was initiated by the National Environment Agency to recognise their efforts and achievements of proactive individuals in Singapore who have made personal contributions in protecting, promoting and enhancing the environment.

The President’s Award for the Environment

Inaugurated in 2006, this Award honours individuals, organisations and companies who have made significant contribution to Singapore's efforts to achieve environmental and water sustainability.

Grants and Fundings

The Lien i ³ Challenge

INNOVATE + IMPLEMENT + IMPACT

The Lien Centre for Social Innovation is offering S$1 million for innovative ideas that can be implemented to create positive social impact.

They are looking for ideas that meet these 3 main criterias:

• Innovative. The idea should be creative and original in at least some aspects of its application.

• Impact. The idea when implemented will create positive and significant impact on the social sector and the community.

• Implementation. The idea should be practical and implementable. The award money is to implement the idea.

This competition is open to any individual, group or organisation in any country, especially within Asia. However, the idea should primarily benefit a community within Asia.

For more information and application, please click here .

Youth ChangeMakers

CHANGE. INNOVATION. VENTURE.
If you want to make a difference in your society or have a passionate cause you want to champion for, apply to the Young ChangeMakers today and actualise your ideas!

The Young ChangeMakers is a grant scheme that provides funding and resources to youths who want to make a meaningful change in their community. To find out more, please click here.

Youth Research Fund

The Youth Research Fund (YRF) is administered by National Youth Council (NYC), the national co-ordinating body for youth affairs in Singapore. Since its inception in 1997, the YRF has been supporting issue-specific studies concerning youth that not only help us understand and stay connected with youth, but also advance our aim of nurturing World-Ready Youth and building a vibrant youth sector.

Through the YRF, we hope to encourage not only youth organisations and voluntary welfare organisations to conduct their own research to better understand their clientele and enhance their programmes, but also individual researchers, especially youths doing their Project Work, honours thesis or postgraduate dissertation, to delve deeper into youth issues of the day.

Youth Development Fund

The Youth Development Fund (YDF) is a grant scheme to help Youth Organisations initiate and implement projects which benefit the community and society. It encourages the youths in Youth Organisations to get together as a team to conceptualise, plan and carry out projects that benefit others.

Youth Organisation Capability Development Fund

The Youth Organisation Capability Development Fund (YOCDF) is set up by the National Youth Council to enhance the long-term capability of youth organisations (YOs). By giving incentives and value-added assistance through three different schemes, YOCDF aims to help youth organisations embark on capacity-building and organisation-strengthening initiatives. The three schemes of YOCDF are:

• Youth Organisation Development Scheme
• Youth Development Tools & Curriculum Scheme, and
• Young Social Entrepreneur Incubator Scheme.

Overseas Youth Programme Grant

The Overseas Youth Programme Grant supports overseas youth programmes that encourage youth development and benefit the community.

Youth Expedition Project

The Youth Expedition Project (YEP) has been a key programme to encourage volunteerism among our youth since its inception in 2000. YEP supports youth to embark on community service projects with the objectives of building up self-confident youth volunteers who can identify needs and contribute to the community both at home and abroad.

For more complete information on grants and fundings for youths, please click here