About this guide

Giving Hours SG is an editorial guide to workplace giving and employee volunteering in Singapore, written for HR, people and sustainability teams who want to plan this work carefully.

Who maintains this site

This site is maintained by the editorial team at Get Out! Events, a Singapore company events business that plans team activities and volunteering programmes for organisations. We want to be clear about that from the start, so that readers can judge the content with full knowledge of who wrote it.

Some pages link to guides published on Google Sites, including the volunteering guide and the CSR team building guide. Those linked guides are Get Out! Events resources, written by the same organisation that maintains this site. They are not independent reviews or third-party endorsements, and this site does not rank, review or recommend Get Out! Events against other providers.

What the guide is for

The aim is to give practical, general guidance on the main stages of a workplace volunteering programme: setting a purpose, choosing a community partner, preparing a volunteer day and recording hours. The pages are written so that they are useful whether or not you ever work with an events company, and most of the advice applies just as well to programmes run entirely in-house.

The guide does not provide legal, tax, medical or data protection advice. Where those topics come up, it points to the public body responsible and suggests you check current guidance directly with them.

How the content is written

Content on this site follows a few simple rules.

• General guidance only. The pages describe common practice and sensible questions to ask. They do not quote statistics, client stories or testimonials.
• Official sources first. Where a topic depends on public rules or registers, the guide links to the relevant public body or national platform rather than restating details that may change.
• Partners at the centre. The advice is written from the view that volunteering should serve community organisations and the people they support first.
• Plain language. The pages avoid jargon so they can be shared with colleagues who are new to volunteering.

Sources worth reading

These public resources are a good place to continue reading:

• The National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre, for research and resources on volunteering and giving in Singapore.
• Giving.sg, for volunteer opportunities and giving campaigns.
• The Charity Portal, for information on registered charities and institutions of a public character.
• The National Council of Social Service, for an overview of the social service sector.

Links to these organisations do not imply that they endorse this site or Get Out! Events.

What this site does not do

This guide does not sell anything, take bookings or collect personal details from readers. It does not compare event providers, publish reviews or quote figures for any service. If you decide to work with an outside organiser for a volunteer day, ask your community partner first whether they have a preferred way of working with external teams, and choose the arrangement that suits them.

Corrections and updates

Guidance on volunteering, data protection and charitable giving changes over time. The editorial team reviews the pages periodically, but you should always confirm specific rules with the relevant agency before acting on them. If you notice something that looks out of date or unclear, please treat the official source as the final word.

Using this material

You are welcome to use the checklists on this site in your own planning documents and adapt them to your organisation. If you share a page with colleagues, please share the link rather than copying the text, so that readers can see who maintains the guide and how it is written.

Thank you for reading, and for taking the time to plan volunteering with care for the people and organisations it is meant to help.