Singapore Exchange (SGX) launched The Bull Charge™ 2008. This iconic charity fun run in the Central Business District (CBD) will be held on 24 October 2008, Friday at the Padang with Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong as the Guest-of-Honour.
Over the past four years, SGX has raised more than S$10million for needy children, families and youths from selected charities through its charity fun run. A record number of 19 charities has been selected for this year. For the first time, some of the funds raised will go directly towards helping an overseas charity as part of SGX's efforts to give back to the societies that it operates in.
In addition to the 3.2km fun races, Management Team Relay and Doggie Road Race, last year's novelty race "Gateway Challenge" is back by popular demand. Teams would be competing in a series of challenges with an Asian twist at the Padang after the fun race.
The Bull Charge™ 2008 will raise funds for 19 charity organisations and the percentages of the proceeds that they will receive are as follows:
| S/N |
Name of voluntary welfare organizations |
Objective of programme |
Allocation |
| 1. |
Autism Association (Singapore) |
To equip autistic children with essential skills and prepare autistic youths for adulthood. |
10% |
| 2. |
The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund |
To help children and youths from low income families to continue attending schools without an empty stomach and have some money for their meals. |
10% |
| 3. |
Autism Resource Centre (Singapore) - Autism Academy Centre of Excellence for Early Intervention Programme |
To serve children and adults with autism spectrum disorder to help them lead meaningful lives in society. |
5% |
| 4. |
Boys' Town |
To provide boarding and residential care for boys from 11 to 18 years of age who came from large, troubled, single parent and financially needy families. |
5% |
| 5. |
Bright Hill Evergreen Home |
To provide nursing care for the needy elderly in a residential setting. |
5% |
| 6. |
Catholic Social & Community Council (CSCC)- The CSCC Agape Fund |
To raise funds and assist various charities under the CSCC umbrella to provide for the needy in the community including the poor and destitute, orphans, youths at risk, elderly and families with problems.
| 5% |
| 7. |
Fei Yue Family Service Centre (Bukit Batok) |
To develop and provide remedial, preventive and developmental services to help families address their needs and difficulties. |
5% |
| 8. |
Food from the Heart - Bread Programme |
To collect and distribute unsold bread and pastries from bakeries for the needy individuals and families. |
5% |
| 9. |
Life Community Services Society – Friends of Children |
To provide emotional, social, physical, intellectual and financial support to prisoners’ children and children from lower-income and dysfunctional families. |
5% |
| 10. |
Movement for the Intellectually Disabled (MINDS) - MINDS Towner Gardens School |
To provide special education for children from 4 to 18 years of age with intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder. |
5% |
| 11. |
Pathlight School |
To provide a unique blend of mainstream education and life-skills training for students with autism from 6 to 18 years of age, and promote the integration of persons with autism into mainstream society. |
5% |
| 12. |
Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD)- The SPD Education Programme |
To provide a level playing field for disabled students through educational, social and rehabilitative support, thereby building their resilience to cope with daily life challenges and increase their participation in mainstream activities. |
5% |
| 13. |
Singapore Association for Mental Health (Insight Centre and Oasis Day Centre) |
To provide rehabilitative services and support group to individuals with mental illness and their family members. |
5% |
| 14. |
Sree Narayana Mission Home for the Aged Sick |
To provide residential facilities with basic nursing care for the aged sick. |
5% |
| 15. |
Sunlove Home |
To provide rehabilitative, occupational therapy and nursing services for persons with mental illness. |
5% |
| 16. |
The Ang Mo Kio Family Service Centres (Ang Mo Kio) |
To develop and provide remedial, preventive and developmental services to help families address their needs and difficulties. |
5% |
| 17. |
TOUCH Community Services - TOUCH Young Arrows |
To nurture and realise the potential of children from low-income or single-parent families. |
5% |
| 18. |
Yellow Ribbon Fund- Programmes for Children of Ex-offenders |
To support children of prison inmates and ex-offenders, as these children learn to cope with the loss of their parents to due to incarceration, and adjust to the return of their parents to the family nucleus. |
5% |
| 19. |
China Youth Development Foundation |
To aid schools in remote areas in urgent need of being rebuilt or replaced with modern facilities |
Funds raised from “Gateway Challenge” |
