SERVING THE COMMUNITY THROUGH SPORTS THROUGH COMMUNITY THE SERVING SERVING THE Singapore Sports Council Annual Report 2011/2012 Report Annual Council Sports Singapore THROUGH SPORTS Singapore Sports Council 230 Stadium Boulevard Singapore 397799 Tel: (+65) 6500 5000 Fax: (+65) 6440 9205 This report is printed on paper certified according to the FSCTM standard. ANNUAL 2011/ For more information, please visit fsc.org. REPORT 2012 VISION A Sporting Singapore. Our Way of Life MISSION Developing sports champions & creating enjoyable sporting experiences for Singapore This page has been intentionally left blank. Serving the Community through Sports CONTENTS 04 07 10 12 Chairman’s Vision2030 SSC Council SSC Senior Message Members Management 13 14 16 18 Corporate Lion City Cup brings World Netball Singapore’s Pride Governance out the community Champs ignite at the 2011 in force memories, SEA Games community spirit and international prestige 20 22 24 26 People rise and Community Capturing Singapore Sports shine at Standard fun gets better Community Hub changing Chartered every year at Moments online, our Sporting Marathon the OCBC Cycle on air Landscape Singapore 2011 Singapore 28 29 30 32 Back to school Living Better Singapore Sports Investing in with dual-use Through Sports at Institute: nurturing the future with scheme school Pasir Ris SRC Singapore’s Fundamental fields & indoor sports talents for Movement Skills sports halls sporting glory & SwimSafer 33 34 36 38 Emergency New SSC MOUs NSAs growing Financial training pays off as to enhance capabilities for Statements early intervention capabilities of the Sporting 2011/2012 saves lives Future Leaders Community Singapore Sports Council 02 Annual Report 2011/ 2012 THROUGH SPORTS Singapore Sports Council Serving the Community through Sports Annual Report 2011/ 2012 03 A Message from the Chairman of Singapore Sports Council The past 12 months have been accessible spaces for our people to exciting for our sporting community live better through sport. in Singapore. Vision 2030, our sports master plan for the next two decades, Growing Opportunities, Access began with us taking on a deeper, and Capabilities more meaningful approach towards Pasir Ris Sports and Recreation Centre the development of sport for all in (SRC), SSC’s newest facility, sets the Singapore. For competitive athletes, standard for providing the community parents, students, teachers, working with greater access to sport. adults, seniors, grassroots advisers Inspired by the concept of place- and members of parliament, FY 2011 making, Pasir Ris SRC encompasses was a year where Singaporeans from a varied and modern mix of sports diverse backgrounds came together facilities, F&B outlets, retail stores and for a meaningful conversation on our community spaces. common goals and shared aspirations for sport. The diversity of facilities and programming available at today’s Serving the Community SRC has also helped change the way Through Sport people interact and connect with In many ways, FY 2011 represented not one another in the local community. only our future aspirations for Sporting The transformation of today’s SRC has Singapore; it was a celebration evolved through years of consultation of the Singapore Sport Council’s with various grassroots leaders, advisors commitment to serve the community and fellow government agencies. through sport. At SSC, we believe our actions can generate a chain reaction The SRC’s opening was greeted by of positive experiences, through people from all walks of life and was sport. We may be a small and young graced by Guest of Honour, Deputy country, but our actions, multiplied Prime Minister, Mr Teo Chee Hean, who across the nation, can inspire us to live was accompanied by fellow Members better through sports. of Parliament from Pasir Ris – Punggol GRC, including Minister of State for Sport helps define how we feel about Trade and Industry & Mayor, North East ourselves, our communities and our District, Mr Teo Ser Luck; Ms Penny Low; country. Whether we play, cheer or Dr Janil Puthucheary; Mr Zainal Sapari compete, sport gives us a sense of and Mr Gan Thiam Poh. belonging and hope. It reminds us that we are tougher than the times in which In attendance as well were Acting we live. As the driving agency for sports Minister for Community Development, development, SSC has continued to Youth and Sport, Mr Chan Chun Sing; serve the community by creating more Speaker of Parliament and Member opportunities, greater access and of Parliament for Punggol – East SMC, enhancing the capabilities of people. Mr Michael Palmer; and Government By drawing on the strengths of our Parliamentary Committee Member for partners, such as Ministry of Education Community Development, Youth and (MOE), People’s Association and Sports; and Member of Parliament for Singapore Tourism Board, to name only Sembawang GRC, Mr. Vikram Nair. a few, we continue to create more Singapore Sports Council 04 Annual Report 2011/ 2012 Our concept for SRC design goes for coaches, experts and teachers players below the age of 28 returned beyond embracing a sporting and to share, discourse and implement to the Malaysian League and Cup. healthy lifestyle; we want to create the best practices in PE and Sports more spaces for people to forge closer coaching. More important, the For decades, our Singapore team was friendships. For families, neighbours formation of PESTA will not only greeted to the euphoria of the ‘Kallang and communities, our SRCs provide enhance the sporting experiences for Roar’ each time we played against a an inclusive, enjoyable and safe our youth and children, it will serve to Malaysian state team. Within minutes haven to bond, play and grow benefit the greater sporting ecosystem of the gates opening at the Jalan through sports. Above all, the SRC in Singapore. Besar Stadium, thousands of families represents the strength of cross-agency and friends gathered and stood united collaboration to develop better Across Sporting Singapore’s vibrant to relive some of our greatest memories policies, programming and spaces for events calendar, SSC continued in sport. the community. to provide more opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to The name Lions XII, inspired to signify At SSC, we believe unequivocally play sport. Whether you are family the support of fans as the 12th man, in the power of sport to develop building closer bonds or a competitive was a befitting one for our Singapore people of character and strong athlete pushing new boundaries, we team, as local fans welcomed their values – Leadership. Teamwork. were there to share your sporting new icons to a joyous reception in their Respect. Purpose. Professionalism. moments with you. The Standard opening match. Love of Country. Chartered Marathon Singapore 2011 drew another record crowd, while The occasion exemplified the deeper Our partnership with MOE continues the OCBC Cycle Singapore and the sentiments that we share as a nation. to provide more spaces and Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore Triathlon At SSC, we believe that sport has the programming to stimulate a sporting brought communities closer together power to create a love of country like culture by opening the fields and and enabled more in the community few activities can. Friends, neighbours, indoor sports halls in schools for the to pursue their passion for sport. communities and even complete community. As of FY 2011, we have strangers forging closer bonds, coming opened some 85 chargeable school The World Netball Championships, together to cheer and celebrate as fields, 50 Free to Play fields and 45 the ICF Canoe Marathon World one voice. Indoor Sports Halls (ISHs). Championship and the ITTF Volkswagen Women’s World Cup provided our Sport reveals the best in all of us. Through the Fundamental Movement athletes with the opportunity to test Whether you are a spectator watching Skills (FMS) guidebook for educators, their abilities against the world’s best. your favourite team or a determined the SSC and MOE have been working Hosting three world championships in disabled athlete overcoming great collaboratively to encourage an early one year was a huge mandate for us, odds to excel, sports strengthens the path to physical literacy, enabling but for our National Sports Associations, individual, it ignites national pride and more children and youth to develop the championships presented inspires people to live better. and grow more holistically. As of excellent opportunities to enhance FY 2011, SSC has trained some 602 their capabilities in hosting world-class Now more than ever before, preschool teachers over 18 workshops, sporting events. companies around the world are bringing our total trained preschool establishing more platforms to teachers to 704 since we piloted the Standing united through Sport share knowledge and experience, programme in December 2010. Often with sport and innovation, the to increase growth and enhance revival of old traditions can reignite capabilities. With the Singapore Sports Elsewhere within MOE, the launch friendly rivalries and inspire a renewed Hub due to be completed in 2014, of the Physical Education and sense of community. After a 17-year we anticipate a rise in demand for Sports Teachers Academy (PESTA) in hiatus, a Singapore team comprising human capital across our sporting August 2011 presented a platform ecosystem. In FY 2011, SSC forged Singapore Sports Council Serving the Community through Sports Annual Report 2011/ 2012 05 strategic partnerships with both the With each event, we have created Igniting the University of Oregon (UO) and the more opportunities for our athletes to Singapore Spirit Singapore Management University raise their capabilities and level of play; (SMU) to develop the capabilities and we have increased the opportunities As part of the Vision 2030 engagement skills sets of our people to navigate this and accessibility for the average with the public, we produced a series new growth. Singaporean to enjoy, excel and of videos to tell the stories of a few of unite through sports.