Committee of Supply 2025

Here are MCCY’s key announcements from COS 2025:

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Fostering Social Cohesion
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Deepening multiculturalism and fostering racial and religious harmony

International Conference on Cohesive Societies – “Cohesive Societies, Resilient Futures” (June 2025)
  • Catalyse conversations on multiculturalism; share best practices on creating harmonious multicultural societies
  • About 800 delegates from over 30 countries

Better integrate foreign professionals into our society

[NEW] Alliance for Action on the Integration of Foreign Professionals
  • Bring corporates together to develop proposals to enhance the integration of foreign professionals into our society
  • Recommendations to be shared in 2H 2025

Connecting people through sports

ActiveSG $100 Credit Top-up
  • ActiveSG members to log in to MyActiveSG+ between 2 June and 31 December 2025

Uniting people through sports

World Aquatics Championships 2025 and World Para Swimming Championships 2025
  • Opportunities for mass participation and engagement through school and community collaborations

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Strengthening our National Identity
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Supporting our local arts and heritage sector

SG Culture Pass
  • Encourage Singaporeans to attend local arts and heritage programmes
  • $100 credits for Singaporean Citizens aged 18+
  • Valid from 1 September 2025 to 31 December 2028

Bringing art closer to Singaporeans

Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention
  • Contemporary art in multiple venues and public spaces
  • Audience can connect with our history, and imagine new possibilities for the future
  • October 2025 to March 2026
Public Art Programme
  • Commission public art in heartland locations where Singaporeans live, work and play

Capturing stories and values of Singapore’s founding generation

Project Citizens – the First Million by Founder’s Memorial
  • A call for Singaporeans to contribute their stories of Singapore’s founding generation
  • Senior Engagement Programme – from Apr 2025
  • Pop-ups island-wide – from Apr 2025
  • Not Mere Spectators - the Makings of Multicultural Singapore experience – from Oct 2025 to Mar 2026

Celebrating and safeguarding our rich heritage

Heritage Activation Nodes (HANs)
  • Empower the community to be involved in the exploration and celebration of our heritage
  • Launch of third HAN in Punggol in April 2025
[NEW] SG Heritage Business Scheme
  • Inspire greater appreciation, and patronage for local heritage businesses
  • Businesses on the scheme can receive support including branding, marketing and consultancy

Connecting Singaporeans over shared experiences

ArtsEverywhere@CDC
  • To reach a total of 50,000 audience members by the end of FY2025

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Realising Diverse Aspirations, Leaving no one Behind
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Bringing arts and sports to children and youth

Scaling up Arts Education Programme in pre-schools
  • Reach 100% of government supported preschools by 2027
Expand Strategic Partnership Co-Curricular Activity with MOE (SP-CCA)
  • Secondary school students can pursue their interest in activities beyond school offerings, and the development of pathways for sports talents will be supported
  • SP-CCA will expand to include:
    • Canoeing (from 2025)
    • Hockey (from 2026)

Providing convenient and affordable access to public sports facilities

Sports Facilities Master Plan
  • New and rejuvenated sports facilities in our heartlands (Ang Mo Kio, Queenstown, Bedok) with others in the pipeline (Hougang, Punggol)
  • Upcoming Integrated Developments in Toa Payoh and Chong Pang

Empowering people of all abilities and ages through sports

Refreshed Disability Sports Master Plan (DSMP)
  • Drive inclusivity for persons with disabilities to engage in sports
  • First 5 Para Sports Community Hubs set up; more by 2030
  • Enabling Sports Fund
    • To launch in 2H 2025 with target of $10 million by 2030
    • Provides funding support for community-initiated disability sports initiatives
[NEW] Frailty Prevention Programme
  • Promote healthy lifestyle and build social connections among seniors through sports participation
    • 8-week Combat Age-related Loss of Muscle (CALM) programme offered to Active Ageing Centres (AACs)
    • Adaptive sports equipment and training for AACs

Advancing our athletes to their full sporting potential

[NEW] Consolidation of NYSI, SSI and SSP
  • Consolidating Singapore Sport Institute, National Youth Sports Institute, and Singapore Sports School into a single entity
  • Strengthen holistic support for athletes
    • Seamless and comprehensive support system for athletes throughout their sporting journey, particularly during youth-to-senior transition and across life stages
    • Enhance partnerships with National Sports Associations to foster athlete and pathway development
    • Deepen expertise and capabilities of sport scientists in High Performance Sport System

Nurturing the next generation of leaders in the arts sector

National Arts Council Creative Arts Scholarship
  • For pre-tertiary and diploma studies to support the development of aspiring artists
  • New NAC Creative Arts Scholarship for pre-tertiary and diploma studies offered by SOTA, NAFA and LASALLE
Scaling up workplace-based training opportunities
  • Work with training partners to offer on-the-job apprenticeships and attachments
    • Arts Apprenticeships
    • Train-and-Attach in Arts programmes

Celebrating and profiling our Singaporean design talent

[NEW] Singapore Design Museum
  • Exploring the establishment of a new Singapore Design Museum to showcase multidisciplinary local designers

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Seeding a Democracy of Deeds
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Encouraging Singaporeans to give regularly to those in need

Nation-wide Giving Campaign (SGSHARE)
  • In the spirit of SG60, to rally each Singaporean adult to contribute to ComChest
  • Donations will be matched by Government, to support social services programmes

Rallying support for the arts and heritage sector through matching fund

Cultural Matching Fund (CMF) top up
  • To encourage philanthropy through dollar-for-dollar matching
  • $100 million top-up, bringing the total investment to $600 million

Supporting ground-up initiatives to meet community needs

Our Singapore Fund
  • Encourage Singaporean citizens to send ideas on commemorating SG60
  • Ideas may be supported by Our Singapore Fund

Transforming co-ops to extend their reach to the wider community

[NEW] Singapore Co-operative Movement Centennial - 10 year Transformation Roadmap
  • Launch consultation with co-ops and stakeholders, in partnership with Singapore National Co-operative Federation, to co-create a 10-year transformation roadmap to:
    • Expand the social mission of co-ops
    • Uplift the capability and competency of the sector
  • Transformation Roadmap will be announced later in 2025

Empower our youths as they navigate an uncertain future

The Youth Charter
  • Serves as a guide to empower our youths as they navigate through an uncertain future
  • 127,000 diverse youth voices on topics of sustainability and the environment, racial and religious harmony, and mental wellbeing

Giving our youths opportunities to share our future

SG Youth Plan
  • Year-long series of engagement sessions for youths to discuss key issues that matter to youths, and take action for a shared future
  • Engagements will lead to an SG Youth Plan – a five-year action blueprint created by youths, for youths, and supported by the whole-of-society
  • More details are available at www.youthplan.gov.sg

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Speeches

• Speech by Minister Edwin Tong: Building Our Future Together as One United People

• Speech by SMS Low Yen Ling: Building a Cohesive and Inclusive Community for the Future

• Speech by MOS Alvin Tan: Weaving a Cohesive and Contributing Community

• Speech by SPS Eric Chua: Sports for all