Community Activations

Bringing together changemakers, communities, and organisations to connect, collaborate, and create impact

Last updated on 7 October 2026

About SGPO’s Community Activations

Organised by the Singapore Government Partnerships Office, Community Activations brings together organisations, changemakers, and communities to connect, learn, and collaborate on building a better Singapore. The Exchange Series is our way of doing this intentionally and consistently — three activations this FY, each building on the last.

Previous: Community Exchange (Jul 2026)

Community Exchange brought together about 100 active citizens,changemakers, and ground-up founders at Common Ground Civic Centre on 4July 2026 for a day of connection, reflection, and shared learning. Throughsmall-group discussions and a Stories and Skills Exchange, participants sharedtheir ground-up journeys, surfaced common challenges, and found new ways togrow their impact in the community.

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Today’s Community Exchange, it is really one of the many ways that we support, encourage, and empower ground-up suggestions as well as initiatives.

— Low Yen Ling, Senior Minister of State (Culture, Community and Youth)

The government is a great convener and just the act of gathering in such a setting helps people who are doing the groundwork connect and reflect.

— Koo Hui Ying, Lead, Community Development, Common Ground

I gained a lot of new partners. I understood a lot more of different people from different communities, what they are working on and how we could collaborate.

— Sheila Manokaran, Co-Founder, River Valley Irregular

Previous: Impact Exchange (May 2026)

Impact Exchange gathered close to 100 leaders from social impactorganisations at Temasek Shophouse to exchange ideas and spark newpartnerships in support of citizen-led change. A panel discussion on scalingwith purpose anchored the day, bringing together practitioners and leaders fromthe social impact sector to share their experiences and insights. Small-grouptable discussions gave participants the space to surface shared challenges andexplore new ways to collaborate across sectors.

Panelists for the Impact Exchange held at Temasek Shophouse

Ms Hasliza Ahmad (Director, SGPO), Mr Martin Tan (CEO, The Majurity Trust), and Ms Su Fen Cheong (Founder & CEO, Preschool Market) at the panel discussion, Scaling With Purpose: Amplifying Citizen Led Change.

I think it's great to have a platform to come together and really have a conversation about what active citizenry can be, what partnership looks like with government.

— Martin Tan, CEO, The Majurity Trust

Temasek Shophouse is a big believer of convenings for like-minded individuals and organisations. We believe that there's power when people come together because that's when ideas are shared, and that's when collaborations happen.

— Yvonne Tay, CEO, Temasek Shophouse