Charity Involvement

We strive to harness the power of our integrated business model to benefit people. We look into all aspects of our business, including how we treat our customers, our employees, our partners, our communities and the environment.

Novena & the Community

Our organization and the employees reach out to individuals, families, and entire communities to provide help where it is needed. Most contributions/ donations are invisible, except to the people they had affected. For Novena, this is recognition enough.

As part of our continuous efforts in community development and charity work, Novena contributed approximately S$175,500 in cash and kind to various charity organizations in FY 2008.

Dec 2008

• National Crime Prevention Council ("NCPC")
  NCPC is a non-profit organization committed to promote public awareness and concern about crime and to propagate the concept of self-help in crime prevention. It is incorporated as a charity and depends entirely on donations and sponsorships to run its programmes and activities. Novena sponsored S$2,000 towards part of NCPC fund-raising activity.

Nov 2008

• Chinese Schools to Showcase Past
  Exhibition by 20 schools' alumni in Malaysia and Singapore aims to share rich history with students. The main aim is to tell younger Singaporeans about the history of our education system. Novena supported S$2,000 towards this event.

Oct 2008

• Victoria Junior College
  Donations of S$2,000 was made towards Victoria Junior College's 25th Anniversary to raise funds to give financial assistance to needy students and upgrade existing nonstandard infra-structure in the college to further enhance their capacity to provide an all-round education to their students.

Sep 2008

• Gala Premier Charity Hall Sponsorship "Dragon Hunters"
  S$2,500 was sponsored for a cinema hall for Children Charities to attend the Gala Premiere event of the movie "Dragon Hunters". Participating children charities include: Children's Cancer Foundation; Asian Women's Welfare Assocation Headquarters; Beyond Social Services; Children-At-Risk Empowerment Association (CARE); Rainbow Centre; Chen Su Lan Methodist Children's Home; SE CDC Metta Student Care (Bedok); Salvation Army Gracehaven; Sun Beam Place.

• "The Children's Tomorrow"
  S$2,000 was contributed towards "The Children's Tomorrow", a human-interest centric documentary which provide insight into the lives of children who have experienced great trauma, the 512 Sichuan Earthquake. The documentary mainly focus on the positive aspects of how children are resilient and have overcome physical/mental/emotional difficulties. It portray more on the recovery and rebuilding process that are ongoing as well as the outcomes of these efforts.

• Industrial & Services Co-operative Society Ltd (ISCOS)
  S$3,000 was donated towards "Pledge of Reintegration" in aid of the Yellow Ribbon Project, to raised funds for their various programmes and services.

Aug 2008

• Lions Club of Singapore West
  S$5,000 was donated towards the Lions Club of Singapore West charity fund raising event to raise fund for the Lions Community Service Foundation Singapore (Lions Foundation). Lions Foundation was registered as a charity in 2003 and its beneficiary charities are the Lions Nursing Home, Lions Befrienders Service Association, scholarships for poor students and hardship cases caused by the loss of income as a result of sudden illness or premature death of the main breadwinner of the family.

• Kampong Chai Chee PCF Charity Event
  S$5,000 was donated towards Kampong Chai Chee PCF Charity event where proceeds were used to build a new child care center for 100 children to be operational in first quarter 2009.

Jul 2008

• Radin Mas Oldies Nite
  Novena contributed $30,000 towards organizing a concert for 1,400 senior citizens from Radin Mas GRC.

Jun 2008

• Sichuan Earthquake Charity Show
  Apart from S$60,000 in donations, Novena contributed time and effort in organizing the Charity Show which was telecast on 25 May 2008 on channel 8 and repeated on 1 June 2008. A total of S$10,249,954 was raised and the funds will be used for children's education and welfare.

May 2008

• Jurong Central Fund-raising Event
  S$10,000 was donated towards Jurong Central Fund Raising Golf Tournament. Donations raised will be used to provide scholarship/busary awards to children of Jurong Central residens, welfare aid to the needy in the constituency and for organizing meaningful activities for residents.

• CSCDD Community Sports Festival
  Sponsored S$10,000 in support of the CSCDD Community Sports Festival.

Feb 2008

• Boon Lay CCC
  S$5,000 was contributed towards Boon Lay Lunar New Year Celebration Cum Hong Baos Presentation event held on 25 February 2008 in Boon Lay CC where Hong Baos were presented to more than 300 senior citizens aged 70 & above.

• China Snowstorm
  S$30,000 was donated towards the Relief Fund for China Snowstorm Victims, a fund-raising event initiated by Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry ("SCCCI").

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