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Insufficient volunteers to sustain continuous organising of activities for RN due to different individual commitments.

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How we can get youths to contribute more?

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Wonderful memories

Celebrations

Festivals

Get togethers

Carnivals

Together as a family

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Residents want more polished, gen z ideas for activities but not willing to pay too much for activites.

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When the whole RN come together to make a event happens and multiple residents give feedback sharing their appreciation

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Seeing happiness and appreciation from families, residents who participated in the events. Additiona learning opportunities to mingle and learn from other GRLs and residents during events.

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Working alongside diverse volunteers and building lasting friendships while striving for a common goal

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Love the upgrade of the cycling path/bridge across the Braddell Road. Amazing views from there.

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To have a coffee place for seniors and youth to gather. To build bond and to share stories

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My team have done well in organisation events to bond with residents. Especially our National Day Decoration with kids, residents and our fellow GRLs have come together to decorate our estate. This is the best effort to bond all residents for Beautiful People, Beautiful Home and Beautiful Dreams.

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Good bonding with everyone in RN

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Not enough volunteer

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Can meet ,learning and sharing from all kinds of experience from other volunteers.

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Amazing teamwork! Beautiful bonding between GRLs with residents, especially kiddos! They really love the drawing and painting sia🤪🥰😍

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Food Rescue - seeing smiles on the residents’ faces as they receive the items being distributed. 🙂

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Into a greener, happier and liveable township. A great place for BESMers to live and be together as One People 👍

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Successful division cny event

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Really appreciate Albert inZ3 for his many years of dedication to put up the flag for National Day celebration .

This year,Thanks to Sherin n her team for the hard work that she n team put up the National Day deco.

Thank you Sherin.

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At our RN, we stand alongside and care for the vulnerable in our neighbourhood.

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IAEC has maxed out the memebership, healthy 30 members, and we have a dedicated youth commmitee. For pongal festival we have done a singapore books of records and published at first page of straits times.

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Seeing how the grassroots leaders encourage, rally members of the public, toddlers, kids & adults, coming together to decorate our Z6 heartlands!

Shout out to our Vice Chairman Jason for championing!! Sacrificing many weekday nights & weekends for our beautiful zone 6!

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Residents’ participation can fluctuate, with some events drawing less interest and support over time.

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Residents’ participation can fluctuate, with some events drawing less interest and support over time.

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I do not live in Bishan but have been serving in BESM as GRLfor a few years now. However, I wish to suggest that I be allowed to park around the CC for free whenever I come for meetings and help out in events. There are many others who do not live in Bishan and face the same issues.

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Bring in more external groups for collaboration. Recruit more Malay volunteers

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Team work: Enjoying work with the team during easier and hard times. Meetings with elderlys are the unforgettable memories. Given the age complications they expressed their interest on the society and people are touchable

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Very glad and hounered to be able to serve and belong to the BESM family, u cant find this anywhere else.

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Very glad and hounered to be able to serve and belong to the BESM family, u cant find this anywhere else.

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It is good to have more young volunteers and expand the number of non-Chinese volunteers.

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It’s such a wonderful service to reach out to those who need. Sylvia & the other ic are so efficient & hardworking in this community service much appreciated by residents. Kudos to them. We are blessed as volunteers as well, with the joy of working together. Thanks Bishan CC for giving us this opportunity to serve the general public.

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To have youth group volunteer , buddy system with teenagers

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Fostering beautiful friendships with neighbours at the Rooftop Garden @167A. Grateful for the shared passion, warmth, and kampung spirit. From seedling to harvest, everything was shared — knowledge, care, and laughter. Here, neighbours became friends, and friends became family. 🌱💚

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More AI / robotics e.t.c IG / courses for all age groups (youth, adulta, seniors)

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A very organised effort by Sylvia and leaders as they coordinate the event faithfully every month as well as ad-hoc times. There must be a lot of pre-event organising & preparation even before volunteers step in to play their part. All these so well done.

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Not enough volunteers’ participation in some events.

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Every activity no matter how small is it at least brings a smiles to the participant

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there is too much red tape and duplication between RN activities? We can organize our communications better .

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Event Hall that can do Wine/Whisky appreciate / Durian event.

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We should be able to better share resource like NDP tent

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Food rescue is very well organised and volunteers are always very happy to play their part in serving the community in this effort Good job!

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Decorating for National Day with the residents was fun and wonderful. It’s great to see everyone contributing together to create a beautiful environment for our zone. Really appreciate the teamwork and community spirit!

Beautiful People❤️

Beautiful Home❤️

Beautiful Dreams❤️

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The time is too long for the volunteer approval procedure, it will make the people losses their interest.

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More children play ground

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A very selfishly effort to make a more beautiful place to live in and creating a more inclusive society.

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A very selfishly effort to make a more beautiful place to live in and creating a more inclusive society.

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A beautiful place to live in and share the fruits of every one labor .

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The joy of queuing for events registration and food during events ..... we should time of more efficient ways of doing this

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Faster processing time for new volunteers.

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Organise more meaningful events that benefit and interest residents and not the small events

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Each year, our Zone 4 residents, pre-school teachers and students, and seniors from Lions Home for the Elders come together with our GRLs to bring our zone to life with beautiful National Day decorations.

It’s a meaningful tradition that celebrates unity, creativity and community spirit!

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Why are there so many rounds of observation for new volunteers? Every committee needs to go through observation phrase, why?

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Why are there so many rounds of observation for new volunteers? Every committee needs to go through observation phrase, why?

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We are trying to give our time, yet we were made to feel like we are begging for some freebies!

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Engaging the residents

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Hope to see a beautiful Bishan Hub like Toa Payoh!

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Need more young people to join the volunteer.

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Christmas time movie screening at the badminton court under my block with residents and my zone team and the food rescue distributions also all the celebratory events with my IAEC team especially the crocodile farm tour where I got to hear wonderful stories from an elderly couple about their travels and love for crocodiles 😍

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Opportunities for BESM : explore ideas to establish an Active Ageing Centre at HDB void deck . Enhancing community engagement for seniors.

Challenging to reach out to youth group to join our RN events.

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Happy friend

Safe home

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It’ll be good if we can inculcate & invest efforts to encourage younger people to be involved in community work through the CC. Let’s teach even our school children to learn how to contribute.

Food Rescue team is always glad and welcoming to students to help along with us. Bring them to see us work in community service … hopefully inspire them to be a part in this service in future.

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Partner with schools for volunteer initiatives, not just as helpers for events or performers but as initiatives champions.

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Kudos to this group of people who fork out time and effort to make the estate better rin so many ways, yet often met with thanklessness and demands from Residents.

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The food and bread rescues really feels satisfying when we work together and when we see the residents treasuring the produce no matter how it looks like

And our NDP decoration with 3D models of Singapore landmarks ! Residents really enjoyed being part of it and the beauty it added to the neighbourhood

Finally the gardening interest group - really enjoyed by our resident volunteers and the whole landscape makes the neighbourhood very pretty

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Our neighbours look out for each other all ways and always. When my family was down with Covid in 2022, our neighbours helped to send meals to us.

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Our residents mostly senior citizens had a hard time registering via QR code for activities

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challenges faced jo smc

to encourage residents to be more open in

participating in inter racial events n live harmoniously and make it a more inclusive society .

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It hard to recruiting more youmg volunteers.

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It’s a great to work as a team .

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We got a great team to support the community who care, plan and execute the events very well. I would love to see more people join in and also get fresh ideas to keep the community well connected with new social events.

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The team work is very evident - working together with different zones and communities will help to create more inclusive and diverse events that feels inviting for everyone. It also helps to produce large scale events with better success and attention to detail ! Thanks

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2025 ND deco, forming up committee, doing brain storm on what to display. And getting residents to participate.

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Seeing GRLs working together, helping each other, camaradie and the smiles on the residents' face (those appreciative ones)

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Willing come together for bread and food rescue activities.

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We have a Wonderfully Amazing team. What my RN had done well is the build trust and open communication with the condo Mcst. We have worked well over the years, creating events and engagement with the condo residents. It's very heartening to see our residents coming together, getting to know each other than just hi(s) and bye(s). One wish if I may say, we need more volunteers. To inject fresh ideas for activities.

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From a youth’s perspective, one key challenge I faced was the lack of empathy shown towards volunteers who are at different life phases. For example, some of us are still studying, others are starting out in our careers, while some may be managing family responsibilities. These different circumstances are not always acknowledged, which can make it harder for volunteers to stay engaged in the long run.

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As we celebrate Singapore’s progress in 2025, we pause to honour and thank our founding Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

This year, we chose to incorporate his portrait into our decorations not just as a tribute, but as a symbol of deep gratitude and remembrance.

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Activities for families, youth & seniors 

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Activities for families, youth & seniors 

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We have a good mix of existing flagship & new activities for residents

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One challenge is the lack of technological support. Platform restrictions sometimes prevent us from accessing important information, such as the waitlist of residents who registered for events. This makes it difficult to plan effectively and reduces our ability to serve residents smoothly. Payment acceptance is also limited to cash or gevme. Why is Paynow not acceptable?

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Helping seniors be healthy, physically and mentally

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Being given opportunities to step up, interacting with residents during events, and working alongside fellow grassroots leaders created friendships and learning experiences that shaped my growth.

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Some residents may lack access to technology, making communication, resources, or e-services harder to reach.

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Wonderful trips with fellow GRLs created strong friendships, bonding moments, and shared experiences that deepened my sense of belonging in the community.

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Develop a structured volunteer journey that sets out clear roles, responsibilities, and progression opportunities. This could include a youth leadership track, mentorship by senior GRLs, and recognition for transferable skills that benefit both the community and personal development.

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Resident Bonding

Simple moments like sharing a cup of tea, storytelling, or playing games with children or elderly residents.

Community Coming Together

When neighbours, families, and volunteers collaborate for an event or project, fostering a sense of belonging

Growing

Witnessing volunteers grow in patience, empathy, and leadership while serving the community.

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change the material of the current polo tee to breathable material (dry fit or honeycomb). When we run outdoor events, we need tees that can help us stay and keep cool.

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1 RN chairman do not fit to be chair leade . Need to learn many things . No communicate well. Bad attitude. Many member dont want say any thing. Told feedack to chairman before this also last year. But nothing done.

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Similar events could be collaboratively organised. Best practices for events could be made easily accessible by all committees such as partners could be easier tapped on and not "exclusive" to one zone for example

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Consistent support and manpower may be uncertain at times and it may be helpful to explore collaborations with schools , community volunteers to tap on