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The website for voluntary welfare organisations
The website for voluntary welfare organisations
A Voluntary Welfare Organisation (VWO) is a non-profit organisation that provides welfare services and/or services that benefit the community at large. VWOs are typically set up as societies, companies limited by guarantee or trusts. As long as the organisation is set up exclusively for charitable purposes and carries out activities to achieve these purposes, it must register itself as a charity.

Charities are organisations set up exclusively for any of the following charitable objects:

  • relief of poverty,
  • advancement of education,
  • advancement of religion, or
  • other purposes beneficial to the community such as:
    1. the advancement of health;
    2. the advancement of citizenship or community development;
    3. the advancement of arts, heritage or science;
    4. the advancement of environmental protection or improvement;
    5. the relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantages;
    6. the advancement of animal welfare, advancement of citizenship or community development;
More information on charities can be found at the Charity Portal. A list of charities can also be found at the portal.
Charities can raise funds from the public. All public fund-raising activities that involve house-to-house collections and street sales are required to be licensed by the Singapore Police Force's Licensing Division. With effect from 26 December 2003, the Ministry of Home Affairs has granted NCSS an Exemption Order to the House to House and Street Collections Act. Members of NCSS can apply to NCSS for an exemption of fund-raising permits. Please click here for a list of NCSS-approved fund-raising events. NCSS members also conduct flag days on Saturdays and Wednesdays of school holidays. Please click here for a list of NCSS members conducting flag days in 2008.

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