CS2023: The Young Artist Behind The Design

Palette to mix and match

As Club Rainbow’s very own young artist, Jonas has drawn many pieces of artwork and created figures using clays during his free time. Artworks Jonas and his brothers, Lucas and Titus have created over the years have added more colours and uniqueness to the house. As much as he loves all his artworks, names were made for some of his artworks such as a sunflower clay he created. According to his mother, the first piece of artwork created by Jonas was at the age of four and he has been constantly creating pieces of art since then.

Jonas managed to have his artworks exhibited in an exhibition through his school. Not just that, he was also featured in a lifestyle magazine for his artwork. Happiness was reflected on Jonas’ mum’s face as she shared about his achievements and milestones. As the artist of the design that was printed on Travel 2.0: The Travel Organiser, Jonas is the first person to unbox it (Catch the release of the video on Club Rainbow’s Youtube Channel!). The Travel Organiser is a 6-piece set that comes in grey with the design printed in yellow. The designs are small icons Jonas created, including earth, flowers, a blue recycle bin, trees, etc.

Being a recipient of the CRS Talent Development Fund (TDF), Jonas was offered the opportunity to discover his abilities and gradually develop his skills throughout his journey with CRS, attaining accomplishments in the Arts. The fund supports art workshops, and programmes, giving him the lead in assignment opportunities.

For more details on Travel 2.0: The Travel Organiser, visit our Charity Merchandise page.

Innovative Event Management That Gives Back

As part of the vocational development programme, Club Rainbow organised a bake sale earlier this year, in which our beneficiaries and caregivers participated to gain new skills and earn supplementary income.

Dream Station, a local events management and production company, contributed to the sale of baked goods by purchasing items from our beneficiaries. When asked why they chose to support us, they explained that their CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) arm has the vision to collaborate with charitable organisations like Club Rainbow and to promote sustainability in their events. At the time, their client's CSR programme mandated that the items in their event's goodie bags have a CSR angle, and since it was around Chinese New Year, Dream Station had the idea of sourcing edible goodies to fit the theme. In addition, they also supported two other non-profit organisations (NPOs) besides Club Rainbow.

Dream Station initiated its CSR programme in 2020 and has been actively helping the community. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they provided hygiene packs containing masks and hand sanitisers to foreign workers living in dormitories and donated excess mask stocks to other non-profit organisations. They focus on in-kind contributions and efforts to give back to the community. Dream Station suggests that clients use services offered by charitable organisations and does not charge mark-ups or surcharges if clients decide to engage them. For example, from packing goodie bags to delivering them, it is passed on a cost-to-cost basis, which is atypical of events management companies that usually charge mark-ups for such services. Dream Station offers such angles to all their clients, especially MNCs with their own CSR arms, and the uptake by their clients depends on the business angle. However, Dream Station tries to push for the engagement of charitable organisations.

After emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, Dream Station plans to restart its CSR efforts, focusing on giving back to society by providing services to help and encourage giving back to the community. If they have excess logistics or stocks after organising events, they give them back to society for better utilisation.

Moving forward, one of the pillars of Dream Station's CSR efforts is sustainability, which aims to reduce the wastage of consumables by encouraging clients to use sustainable supplies. They also want to empower underprivileged employees by hiring freelance staff from lower-income families who have teenage kids or mature workers looking for part-time jobs, providing them with another source of income.

Dream Station will continue fundraising campaigns on the giving.sg platform and will be directly involved physically in fundraising events, such as sourcing in-kind sponsorships for events management to run carnivals. They will also focus on empowering the community, which aligns with what Club Rainbow is trying to achieve through the rollout of vocational programs that support caregivers and beneficiaries, providing them with supplementary income while reaffirming that their journey is not just to take care of people with special needs, but also to show that people with special needs can contribute to the community.

Into the fourth iteration of the programme, one of the CRS participants could work in a baking establishment based on their experience and certification gained from the programme. Club Rainbow is grateful to Dream Station for their support towards the Vocational Programme.

Ride for Rainbows 2022 and 30th Anniversary Birthday Bash

Club Rainbow (Singapore)’s biggest event of the year, Ride for Rainbows 2022 and the 30th Anniversary Birthday Bash have successfully concluded on 27 November 2022.

The physical Ride for Rainbows is back after being virtual for 2 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic!

In conjunction with Club Rainbow (Singapore)’s 30th Anniversary, this year's edition for Ride for Rainbows is met with a hybrid format, giving our riders the flexibility to participate in a physical or virtual ride. We also had a birthday bash carnival with a tons of carnival games and rides at the end of the physical ride to celebrate this very special day and spend a fun filled day with our beneficiaries and their families!

On that day, there were over 600 participants and volunteers who turned up at Marina Barrage. This includes 78 families, close to 200 riders and over 100 staff and volunteers.

With that, we would like to take this opportunity to express our utmost gratitude to all our supporting parties, including our beneficiaries and their families, sponsors, riders, donors, staff and volunteers! This event would not be possible without everyone’s help and support. 

We hope to see you all again for Ride for Rainbows next year!

Please email rfr@clubrainbow.org to be a part of Ride for Rainbows next year!

BTS: Charity Merchandise 2021

Last month, we presented the newest addition to our range of merchandise.

A Back-to-Work Kit to reciprocate the unwavering support from the community, we put together a number of items to compliment professionals’ flexible work arrangements.

A few pairs of children from the Visual Arts programme, age ranging from as young as 5 to 14 years old were brought together to support this year’s merchandise.

Working on the theme – Collaboration, each pair of children came up with a different view of how collaboration and teamwork meant to them.

“The moment mummy told us about the theme, Ridhwan associate happiness with food. We just get the idea on fast food. The only problem is both of us wants to draw the same thing and could not agree on the color, who to draw what, and whose handwriting is nicer.” - Nurin Insyirah Binte Masli

We invited the children to share their experience of teamwork through the art pieces which they have worked on together. Speaking with the artists, most of them expressed the difficulty they felt of working with another individual even though the other party was a sibling.

“I initially felt confused as to how our ideas would look like and how our ideas being combined would look like as the end product.” - Mass Amirah Binte Amir Matchap

There were discussions of deciding how to bring the theme to paper and colour, whose handwriting is better and right down to details such as colours to use. A challenge that professionals are all too familiar with where teamwork means every member plays an important role in achieving a goal and collaboration sees everyone working together in sync to complete a project.

Almost like second nature, the children manoeuvre to accept and adapt to the differences between them. They were able to identify individual strengths and to compromise. At the end of the project, they expressed satisfaction and happiness with the outcome of the amazing art pieces.

Watch videos of the different pair of children working together:

Behind-the-scenes - Amirah and Sage

Behind-the-scenes - Jonas and Titus

Behind-the-scenes - Ridhwan and Nurin

Amongst the artworks by the different pairs of children, the artwork by the siblings – Muhammad Ridhwan Bin Masli and Nurin Insyirah Binte Masli was selected to be featured on our Back to Work Kit.

All art pieces by our artists can be adapted to the range of merchandise that we carry. To invite our little artists to be supporting partners of your outreach efforts, please do write to crscpm@clubrainbow.org.

Project Hope

Projecting hope through their outreach in supporting charities, Sumitomo Corporation took to supporting Club Rainbow's Arts Development Programme with the purchase of mugs bearing a child's artwork - 'Unity is Strength'.

How did the team overcome the challenges of giving back during the pandemic?

During this pandemic, we never lost sight of what’s most important for us, i.e our values. Commitment to giving back is a key tenet of our business principles, “benefit for self and others, private and public interests are one and the same”. We know that we are all in this together. Although we can’t do it as extensively as in the past due to the challenges posed by the pandemic, that doesn’t stop us from seeking alternatives, such as supporting talent development and donation which we worked with Club Rainbow.

What is Project Hope?

Our “Project Hope” is …

Read more - https://bit.ly/2OLXyAk

First published in Club Rainbow Singapore LinkedIn article.

Charity Sale

Annually, we organise fundraising campaigns such as Ride for Rainbows and for this year, we like to introduce our line of charity merchandises inspired by artworks of participating beneficiaries who underwent months of immersive training in visual arts.

The sale aims to raise funds to support a wide variety of programmes and services which Club Rainbow (Singapore) offers to beneficiaries and their families. By making a meaningful purchase, you can help to instill confidence and pride in these children and youths, and empower them to lead an enriching life, despite their personal challenges.

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Cottony Tote Bag

filled with dreams…

Our tote bags come in bold colours with meaningful quotations which resonate closely with our little ones.
Available in 2 different colours, bearing separate artworks by 2 of our beneficiaries.

Artist contributions
Red tote bag : Sage Tan Song Yen
Blue tote bag : Lim Yi Xin, Megan

‘Notey’ (or Nice) Notebook

Pen your thoughts or plan your day with our PU Notebook, comes with 120 lined-pages (100gsm wood-free), beautified by a pair of our little artists for each book.

Artist contributions
Red notebook
Julian Miguel Juarez Arcilla (front) & Muhammad Ridhwan Bin Masli (back)

Blue notebook
Aw Kai Jun (front) & Thevasri Suresh (back)

NETS FlashPay Card

*Blink* *Blink*

Displaying 2 of our beneficiaries' masterpiece design, this card can be used for public transport, partnering F&B outlets, ERP and CEPAS-compliant car park charges.

Artist contributions
Yellow background : Nurin Insyirah Binte Masli
Green background : Kieran Brunkard 

2019 Calendar - Me, Myself & You

Calendar featuring artworks from various beneficiaries depicted in the calendar months of 2019. Included in is an overview for both years - 2019 and 2020.

Public holidays marked with cute designs, providing easy reference for schedule planning.

Artist contributions
Mass Amirah Binte Amir Matchap, Anastasia Mary Chieng Zhi Wei, Victoria Tan Hui En, Sage Tan Song Yen, Thevasri Suresh, Sun Tai Ge Tagore, Edric Leroy Ng Hon Jun, Jaron Lim Jia Hong, Atkins Soong Jin Le.

Mug of Imaginary Friends

Portraying the little one’s imaginary friends on these ceramic mugs brings excitement to them to see these characters being featured on a merchandise.

Artist contributions
Bird & Hamster : Lee Jin
Cat & Mouse : Alfred Chua Shao Hong

For inquiries on purchasing our line of merchandises, please submit your interest

here.

Check out the video of our little ones with their merchandise as they share their excitement!