SMRT Website - Philanthropy

Silver Tribute Fund

Five years in our journey with the elderly

The Silver Tribute Fund is SMRT’s biggest corporate social responsibility initiative. Launched in December 2006 as part of the company’s 20th anniversary, the Silver Tribute Fund was set up to help the community’s elderly poor – a disadvantaged group that is often overlooked in society.

Our elderly beneficiaries are either forgotten or abandoned by the loved ones they have cared for, or have no family and are living alone. Many wake up every day to find their lives empty and lonely, and struggle to find enough food to eat or execute simple daily tasks. Getting by on scraps, struggling to have a shelter to keep dry, and worrying about where the next dollar will come from are not fitting ways for anyone to live out their final years.

The Silver Tribute Fund makes a big difference in the lives of the beneficiaries. It supports critical care services and assistance that improve the lives of the elderly, and help them live out their twilight years with basic security and dignity. To date, the Silver Tribute Fund has raised over $6 million to benefit more than 10,000 elderly beneficiaries.

Our silver generation has given us and our nation their best years. Through the Silver Tribute Fund, we work towards forging a more socially-conscious and caring society for them, boosting their self-esteem and inter-generational family ties. The Silver Tribute Fund is our way of saying Thank you for everything.

Special Events 2007– 2011

2007

	Some 1,000 donors came together for our first fundraising event - Cram Jam! competition - at SMRT Bishan Depot in Feb 07.

	Singapore Symphony Orchestra Charity Gala Concert at Esplanade ended our first fundraising year on a high note with over $900,000 raised.

	2008

	2009

Dim Sum Dollies and Broadway Beng closed our second fundraising year at Victoria Theatre with $1 million raised despite the 2008 economic downturn.

We roped in popular Taiwanese rock band Mayday (五月天) to lend regional publicity support in Jul 09.


	2009


	2010

We roped in over 100 ITE College East students to give our elderly beneficiaries new haircuts and massages before the Lunar New Year in Dec 09.

The Photographic Society of Singapore presented Birds in a Garden City photo exhibition at Paragon in aid of the Silver Tribute Fund to commemorate its 60th Anniversary, and former President S R Nathan closed our third fundraising year with over $1.3 million raised.

2011

Our inaugural charity golf tournament at Sentosa Golf Club in Apr 11.

We closed our 2011 fundraising year with our first-ever TV fundraising show and $3 million raised.

Olivia Ong and Jesseca Liu recording 暖流 for the Silver Tribute Fund. 暖流 is composed by Dick Lee, written and produced by Chen Jia Ming and arranged by Terence Teo for our fundraising efforts.