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SG Eco Fund Celebrates 5 Years of Building a Sustainable Community Together
21 June 2025
The SG Eco Fund marked its 5th anniversary today by recognising the contributions and achievements of its grant recipients, who have been driving positive environmental change across Singapore.
Singapore, 21 June 2025 – The SG Eco Fund marked its 5th anniversary today by recognising the contributions and achievements of its grant recipients, who have been driving positive environmental change across Singapore. The milestone celebration, hosted by an SG Eco Fund grant recipient, Vidacity, at its sustainability hub (Annex A), brought together passionate individuals and organisations who have transformed their ground-up ideas into impactful environmental sustainability projects.
2 Since its launch in November 2020, the SG Eco Fund has been a catalyst for environmental action, with a focus on supporting projects that rally collective action towards environmentally-friendly behaviour. A total of $18.6 million in funding was awarded to empower over 350 individuals, groups and organisations to initiate community projects across a broad range of topics, including on waste reduction and recycling, community growing of food, conservation of nature and biodiversity, and education and outreach on sustainability. Through the initiatives implemented by grant recipients, more than 700,000 people were engaged on sustainability.
3 In celebration of Singapore's 60th anniversary (SG60), the SG Eco Fund enhanced its Sprout category, increasing the maximum grant amount from $8,000 to $30,000 for projects submitted throughout 2025. Over 90 applications were submitted from January to April 2025, which is the highest number of Sprout applications received within a four-month period since the category’s launch in 2021, and nearly triple the typical number of Sprout applications received in the same period. Applications include creating biodiversity trails in schools for students to better appreciate nature, food waste reduction and composting workshops for preschool children, and innovative heat resilience solutions for the seniors. Evaluations are ongoing, and the results will be released in July 2025.
4 Ms Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, graced the anniversary event as Guest-of-Honour and commended grant recipients and partners for their passion and commitment in engaging communities on sustainability initiatives with the support of the SG Eco Fund. In her remarks, she highlighted how collective efforts from the community have blossomed into self-sustaining networks of citizens working towards a more sustainable Singapore, while also building a more caring and inclusive society.
5 The anniversary celebration featured performances by grant recipients, including Lyfestyle Group’s energetic Green Drumming Performance using instruments crafted from upcycled materials, and The WKND Company's sustainability-themed Trashion Show featuring fashion pieces created from repurposed textiles. About 20 grant recipients (Annex B) also engaged visitors through interactive booth displays, showcasing their SG Eco Fund projects and community engagement efforts on sustainability.
Annex A
About Vidacity
Vidacity was awarded funding in SG Eco Fund’s 4th Grant Call for their sustainability programmes. Vidacity brings together startups, businesses and the community to drive innovation and tackle environmental and social challenges.
The origins of Vidacity can be traced back to 2022 when Mr Zac Toh, Vidacity’s CEO, attended COP27 in Egypt and realised that there was an urgent need to support SMEs and startups in addressing the world’s biggest environmental and social issues. He wanted to create an ecosystem where innovators, businesses, investors and the community could come together and contribute to a more sustainable future. Presented with the old Loyang Primary School in Pasir Ris, Zac decided to rejuvenate the used space to house the new ecosystem. This led to the creation of Vidacity.
Vidacity was officially launched on 14 May 2024 by President Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
Annex B
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S/N | Grant Recipient | Profile | Project Title and Summary |
1 | Altimate Foods Pte Ltd | Singapore’s first startup that aims to use cricket protein to replace traditional sources of protein in food products. | Buzzing About Bugs: Raising Awareness of Insect-Based Protein in Singapore Run educational programmes about food sustainability and alternative proteins such as insect-based protein. |
2 | Apeiron Bioenergy | An integrated player in bioenergy products from feedstock to the end- and by-products. Headquartered in Singapore, they operate two refineries and nine collection warehouses across Asia. | Oil Cycle: Community UCO Collaborative Train individuals within vulnerable communities on proper used cooking oil (UCO) collection, storage, and handling and to start collection in their communities. |
3 | Citysprouts Pte Ltd | A social enterprise with a focus on community, urban farming and sustainability. | Living Sprout Build a living lab and living classroom with green features to engage citizens on sustainability. |
4 | Farmily | A social enterprise that aims to create a harmonious balance between nature and humankind. | F.Ar.M Convert an under-utilised space into a temporary community urban farm with tours, agritech workshops and community composting activities. |
5 | Ground-Up Initiative | A volunteer-driven non-profit organisation that aims to build connections between people and nature, and to cultivate holistic solutions for a more sustainable future. | Kampung Kampus – Phase 1 Set up and manage a sustainability-focused community space to engage the community on waste, food, and biodiversity. |
6 | Holocene Pte Ltd | A biotech start-up providing solutions dedicated to sustainable circular economy practices. | Food Waste Upcycling and Community Education Install food waste composters and run workshops at Kim Tian West to educate and support the local community to upcycle food waste into compost. |
7 | National Cancer Centre Singapore | This initiative is led by the SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Biodiversity Medicine (BD-MED). | Aquaponics Farming on Singapore General Hospital (SGH) Campus Rooftop Implement a community-based rooftop aquaponics farming project, introduce horticultural therapy and conduct sustainability programmes at SGH. |
8 | Ng Kao Jing, Chong Yin Kai Harrison and Sricharan Bala | Co-founders of Jalan Journey, a gamified platform where they make learning about social issues educational but also engaging and empowering. | Jalan Journey - Sustainability World Develop a virtual platform offering an immersive learning experience for students to learn about their impact on the environment. |
9 | Semula Pte Ltd | A social enterprise startup that focuses on upcycling plastic waste to usable items. | Community Recycling Programme Run training programmes for under-privileged and vulnerable communities on how to collect, clean and convert plastic waste into usable items. |
10 | Singapore Islamic Scholars and Religious Teachers Association (PERGAS) | A Singapore-based NGO that raises the quality of Islamic education and welfare of the Islamic Religious Teachers (Asatizah). | PERGAS Green Space Install a rooftop hydroponics garden to engage volunteers in the Malay-Muslim community to grow edibles and participate in sustainability-related activities. |
11 | Terra SG Pte Ltd | A social enterprise that provides sustainability educational programmes, organises green events, and builds green spaces. | The Carbon Gallery Set up and manage a community space at Vidacity with an interactive educational gallery on environmental sustainability. The community is engaged through gallery tours, collection drives and regular green programmes and initiatives. |
12 | The Circular Classroom | A social enterprise with the mission to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and waste generated from the education system. | ReGENerate: Connecting Generations - Repurposing School Uniforms for a Greener Tomorrow Conduct collection drives for used school uniforms and organise intergenerational workshops for students and seniors to repurpose the school uniforms into art installations or functional products. |
14 | The Plastic Project Pte Ltd (Plastify) | Plastify recycles plastic waste into reusable goods, and holds educational and sustainable workshops. | Scale-up community recycling of plastic waste into reusable goods Involve the community to donate plastic waste and process it into upcycled products. |
15 | That WKND Company Pte Ltd | A local startup that runs the brand Vintagewknd, and promotes vintage and reworked fashion. | Vintagewknd Trashion Week Engage participants in street cleanups at various locations while wearing upcycled fashion based on the theme of the session. |
16 | Vidacity Pte Ltd | A sustainability and entrepreneurship ecosystem which offers programmes, services, spaces and partnerships opportunities. | Vidacity Engage the community through agroforestry and afforestation learning journeys and festivals, makerspace workshops to promote a circular economy, and mycelium and mushroom production workshops to grow mushrooms from food waste. |
17 | Virogreen (Singapore) Pte Ltd | A company that provides electronic asset disposal and recycling services. | E-waste Visitor Centre from Education to Application Set up an educational e-waste visitor centre, designed by ITE students, with tours conducted by trained student ambassadors. Organise educational roadshows at community venues and schools, featuring interactive demonstrations, workshops, and e-waste collection drives. |
18 | Witteveen+Bos South-East Asia Pte Ltd | An engineering and consulting firm that delivers innovative and sustainable nature-based solutions in its design and consultancy projects. | Living Seawalls: Coastal Protection & Reef Ecosystem Creation for Environmental & Socio-Economic Benefits Recycle oyster shell waste by repurposing them as a living seawall for coastal defense and biodiversity enhancement. Community members participate as citizen scientists in the preparation process and environmental restoration activities. |
19 | Yina Chua | She is the Head of Customer Solution, Industry, APAC & China, at Grundfos. | The Green Wizards of Singapore: Secrets of the Green Academy Create and publish an environmental stewardship comic book for primary school children and conduct storytelling sessions and activities to promote environmental education. |
20 | Zero Waste SG | A not-for-profit and non-governmental organisation, driving actions towards zero waste in Singapore through education and advocacy. | Sort it Out! Pilot at Pioneer Establish a recycling hub at Pioneer estate with dedicated collection bins for different waste streams, and launch a campaign to engage residents on proper household waste segregation for recycling. |