Can get interest but diff to get attendance

Start small interest grp

Listen more talk less

Be neighbourly

Locations like park attract

Food as a common factor,

Set and lead example

Seeing signs of ground up initiatives

Keep trying

Baby steps

Many doing for before doing with

Activity in the park

RC centre

Volunteer from the heart, not for rewards

problems (*by younger people we mean 45 years old and below):

1)in terms of RC, its difficult to entice younger people. serangoon has an older demographic so it’s very difficult to get the youth to join RCs, especially when the events are mainly for older people. but also that’s because we’re not sure what events are suitable for youths.

2)social media is not really strong so many are not aware of RCs and that they can join

3)the activities we do are mainly for social gaps, but not to gel people together

4) Many younger members are busy with family,career so many don’t have time to join/commit

solutions:

1)Perhaps we could do house visits, get more youth to join.

2)we should aim to target middle aged people, we think alot of people want to volunteer but are not sure how to get started so by reaching out we can get more volunteers.

3)we can start interest groups/ networking groups so we can further extend the network

4)spread awareness as to why we volunteer and why others should volunteer - this might give people a stronger sense of purpose when it comes to volunteering and will choose to actively  participate more

4)spread awareness about difference between NCs and RCs because it might be very confusing for some

Challenges:

• resistance from people who have not worked with GRLs and have negative prejudice against them based on perceived associations.

• For NCs, initially difficult to reach out. However over time, activities do attract young and old. Key is to plan many events and be persistent.

• For Hillside: difficult to find venue for events e.g. street party because no communal venues like parks.

• Many are not on social media, need to do outreach physical via flyers, can be tiring

• RC: difficult in attracting youth

• Motivation of GRLs, dismayed because residents don't entertain house visits initially

• Difficult to reach out to condos

Resources needed:

• Tap on existing interest groups

• Venue for NCs

• More dedicated volunteers - more cause based events to attract volunteers

• Training for GRLs - communication skills

1. Language barriers .

2. GRL are not welcomed by residents during House visits .

3. Eg. RC or NC does not have a park or facilities for events /gatherings .

4. Shortage of volunteers/manpower thus limiting events .

5. Lack of a PME group that may have bridge Committees to locate volunteers .

6. Current teams composed of similar age group thus creating issues in recruitment or engagement .

What are the resources required to improve support

1. Manpower/ volunteers may help in improving events especially supporting the seniors . More Recruitment initiatives .

2. Locate new facilities to help NC / RC to address their venue issues .

3. More funding. $ for organizers :

4. Establish a resource management team / Rainmakers to connect and match resource and event.

   
   

5. A directory or knowledge-based tool to help GRL to understand Serangoon capability and available resources .

Gap:

For community events, we feel there is a lot of GRL involvement but how can we reach out to more Serangoon Residents, new faces for the community events.

Course of Action:

Review the event program such that we retain both GRL involvement and at the same time attract residents to continue at future events. As well as to create more incentive and interest for people to participate in community events

Gap:

To attract young working adults to be part of the GRL family and participate in the activities

Course of Action:

Create cause-based and interest based interest groups such that the presence of the community creates the incentive for these demographic to continue on for future community events