Fund Info

Eligibility Criteria

The SG Eco Fund is open to the following applicants:

  • Individuals: Must be a Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident, above 18 years old, and residing in Singapore;

  • Groups of Individuals: All individuals must be above 18 years old and residing in Singapore, and the group must have at least one Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident;

  • Organisations: Singapore-registered organisations, including companies, charities, government and non-government organisations.

Projects must:

  • Improve the environment or advance environmental sustainability in Singapore;
  • Engage and/or involve the community;
  • Not have commenced;
  • Not have obtained funding from other government sources.

Projects should address at least one area of environmental sustainability, including but not limited to the following: climate change; energy; waste; water; food; nature and biodiversity; environmental pollution; or environmental public health.

Funding Support

The SG Eco Fund works on a co-funding basis. If the application is approved, the applicant may receive funding of up to 80% of the supportable cost items, subject to a maximum of S$1 million. Funding will be provided for no more than three years from the date of the Letter of Award.

The SG Eco Fund supports these cost items:

  • Professional services (e.g. events management, workshop facilitation, behavioural study, audit, etc);
  • Venue rental;
  • Educational materials (e.g. brochures, publications, books, etc);
  • Marketing and publicity (e.g. production of posters, EDMs, photography, etc);
  • Logistics and transportation;
  • Equipment and tools necessary for project implementation.

The SG Eco Fund does not support these cost items:

  • Manpower;
  • Food and beverage;
  • Gifts and prizes (e.g. tokens of appreciation, cash prizes, vouchers, trophies, medals, etc);
  • Honorarium or speaker’s fees;
  • All overseas or foreign visitor’s expenses and fees (e.g. air ticket, accommodation, etc);
  • Media space rental (e.g. newspaper, TV, radio, MRT and bus advertisements, etc);
  • Goods and Services Tax (GST).