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   Fund- Raising Permits

With effect from 9 Oct 23, the Public Fund-Raising Disclosure Regime will be implemented. With this change, if your agency’s public fund-raising event is held:

1. Before 9 Oct 23, NCSS members are still required to apply for NCSS Fund-Raising permit. 


2. From or after 9 Oct 23, local registered or exempt charities are to disclose details of their Public Fund-Raising appeals on the Charity Portal at least seven working days before the commencement of the appeal. NCSS members without charity status may collaborate with a registered/exempt charity who can make the fundraising declaration on the Charity Portal.

   20 minutes

   COE Exemptions

   The Land Transport Authority's Certificate of Entitlement (COE) Exemption Scheme allows
   eligible social service agencies to be exempted from payment of the COE for vehicles
   that are used to transport elderly or disabled beneficiaries of their services/programmes.

   20 minutes

   COMPASS Fee
    Concession

   NCSS member agencies can receive 50% off on music copyright fees payable to the
   Composers and Authors Society of Singapore Ltd (COMPASS).  These fees are to be paid
   when musical works controlled by COMPASS are played or broadcast at any event.

   10 minutes

   Singtel
   Sponsorship

   SingTel has partnered with NCSS to subsidise selected telecommunication costs for social
   service agencies through the SingTel Sponsorship Scheme. This scheme covers
   telecommunication lines and broadband plans from SingTel and SingNet.

   10 minutes

   Flag Day Ballot

   Flag Day slots are allocated through an annual exercise starting with registration in June/July,
   online selection of preferred dates in August and finally a balloting exercise in September.

   20 minutes

   Community and
   Sports Facilities
   Premises

   The Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) Community and Sports Facilities Scheme (CSFS)
   aims to facilitate the integration of community facilities with commercial developments such
   as shopping malls. Under this scheme, landlords are granted additional Gross Floor Area
   (GFA) for premises that are largely used for community outreach including social services
   such as disability, family and eldercare services.

   10 minutes
 

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Guides/FAQ

Enhanced Programme Evaluation System

The Enhanced Performance Evaluation System (EPES) is a web-based system that facilitates submission by social service agencies on outputs, outcomes and client milestone indicators.

Users would need to have a CorpPass account and an EPES account.

To Register for CorpPass account: Please liaise with your agency’s Admin or IT team. 

To Register for EPES account: Please liaise with your agency’s EPES user who has the ‘Agency User Management IC’ role.

Thereafter, please login with your CorpPass account to access EPES. You may refer to pages 10-13 of the User Guide in the next column for more details.

  NCSS
  Membership
  Application

If your agency is interested to apply for NCSS membership, please proceed.

  a. Particulars of Agency
  (eg. Agency Name, Address, Staff
  Contact Details, Background of Agency)

  b. Information on services / programmes

  c. Information on Management
  Committee Members

  d. Governing Instrument of the agency
  i.e. Constitution / Memorandum & Articles of
  Association (M&AA)

  e. Copy of letter / computer printout from
  Registry of Societies (ROS) or Accounting &
  Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) as
  proof of registration as society or company

  f.  Audited Financial Statements for the last
  2 years
  *If your agency is a new set-up,
  please provide the projected income,
  expenditure and reserves / accumulated fund
  for the next 2 years. If your agency has
  only 1 year’s audited financial statements,
  please also provide a breakdown of the
  projected Income and expenditure for
  the current year.

  Other Documents (if any)

  g. Latest Annual Report

  h. Information or collaterals on the
  agency and services / programmes

  i. Copy of letter from Commissioner of
  Charities (COC) as proof of charity
  status (if any)

  a. The application will take
  about 20 minutes
  to complete.

  b. Field marked * are
  mandatory. Please indicate
  “N.A.” if any of the
  fields are not applicable.

  c. The application must be
  endorsed by the
  Chairperson /President
  of the agency to be
  considered as complete.
  If the applicant is not
  the Chairperson, an email
  will be sent to the
  Chairperson/President so
  that s/he can complete the
  declaration section online.

  d. Upon the receipt of your
  application, you will
  receive an
  acknowledgement within
  3 days. An NCSS staff may
  contact your agency
  for more details.

  e. Approval of NCSS
  membership and the
  type of membership to be
  granted will be decided
  by the NCSS Executive
  Committee.

  f. Your agency should
  be informed of the
  outcome of the application
  via post within 3 months
  from the date the
  application was received.

Please read the Obligations of NCSS Members before you proceed with the application.

Interested social service agencies are advised to read the NCSS Act and its Subsidiary Legislation before applying for membership.