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Come join us for a delightful Christmas brunch and bazaar along with tailor-made childrenâs activities graciously hosted by the Chinese Womenâs Association (CWA)! EtonHouse Community Fund (ECF) is honored to be one of CWAâs beneficiaries for this event.
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Event Highlights:
- đ Festive Christmas Brunch
- đď¸ Exciting Bazaar with Unique Gifts
- đ¨âđŠâđ§âđŚ Fun Childrenâs Activities
- đ¤ Support ECFâs Mission
- đ Joyous Time with Friends and Family
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About EtonHouse Community Fund (ECF): ECF is an IPC charity dedicated to making a positive impact on the community by supporting various charitable initiatives that empower children and youth, regardless of their background. Your participation in this event helps us continue our mission and create a brighter future for those we serve.
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We warmly invite you to bring your children and invite your friends to join us for a joyous Christmas celebration that supports a great cause. Your contribution will make a meaningful difference in the lives of those in need.
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Don’t miss out on this heartwarming event. Mark your calendars and spread the holiday cheer!
Event details
Event:
CWA Christmas Bazaar & Brunch
Date:
3 December 2023, 11am-3pm
Venue:
Goodwood Park Hotel, Windsor Ballroom
Ticket information:
- Make a tax-deductible gift of $2,000/- for a table of 10 pax in support of ECF.
- Limited tables, so book early!
Important update: The British Theatre Playhouse (BTP) âArt for Charityâ Gala show featuring ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry,’ originally scheduled for the 18th of November 2023, has been rescheduled to Saturday, 3rd February 2024.
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In light of this postponement, we would like to clarify that the EtonHouse Community Fund will no longer be a beneficiary of the ticket sales for this event. BTP remains committed to bringing you an extraordinary evening of art and entertainment and looks forward to welcoming you in February next year.
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We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this change may have caused and thank you for your continued support and understanding. We extend our best wishes to BTP and the Art for Charity gala event.
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If you require assistance with ticket refunds, please reach out to BTP via email at info@
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For any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us via email at enquiry@ecf.org.sg.
The British Theatre Playhouse (BTP), in collaboration with EtonHouse Community Fund, warmly invites you to the BTP âArt for Charityâ Gala event on Saturday, 18 November 2023.
Be transported into another world â love, joy and connection – and enjoy an evening with âBig Girls Donât Cryâ from London West End, introducing the âJersey Kids from EtonHouseâ. The talented students have a special performance for you. Held inside the Grand Ballroom of One Farrer Hotel, it will be attended by the great and good in Singapore, including the British High Commissioner, H.E. Kara Owen CMG.
You will also make a difference to the lives of underserved children in Singapore. Your participation will offer them education opportunities that will change their lives.
About “Big Girls Don’t Cry”
âBig Girls Donât Cryâ is the ultimate Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons musical concert! It has all the classics for musical fans – Sherry, Grease, Bye Bye Baby, Begginâ, Silence Is Golden, Working My Way Back To You, Walk Like A Man, My Eyes Adored You, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Oh, What A Night, Our Day Will Come – And many, many more!
If you like “Jersey Boys” (the smash hit West End & Broadway Musical about Frankie Vallie & the Four Seasons), in that case, you’ll enjoy âBig Girls Donât Cryâ… the songs are timeless and, till today, have a lasting value – authentically recreating the iconic sounds of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons – the singing, performance and harmony are top-class! Direct from Londonâs West End, the show has been touring the UK and internationally for 17 years.
Ticket sales and Charity
30% of the gross proceeds from all ticket sales go to ECF.
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Premium Champagne tickets: $500 each, with best reserved âFront Rowâ Seats, including a welcome champagne reception with canapes on arrival, the show, and a cocktail reception with free-flow wines during the interval.
CAT 1 tickets: $390 each, including show, a welcome drink and cocktail reception with free-flow wines during the interval.
CAT 2 tickets: $370 each, including show, a welcome drink and cocktail reception with free-flow wines during the interval.
We look forward to your kind patronage and generous support for this worthy cause.
âFront Rowâ and the best available seats are on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Click here for more information or to purchase your tickets!
Event details
Event:
British Theatre Playhouse - Big Girls Don't Cry "Art for Charity" Gala Performance & Reception
Date:
18 November 2023, 6PM
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Rescheduled to: 3 February 2024
Venue:
The Grand Ballroom,
One Farrer Hotel, Singapore
Ticketing:
Enquiries:
Book on Tourette Syndrome by a pre-school child advocating for inclusion is now an educational resource in schools across Singapore.
Tourette Syndrome and Me by six-year-old Zachary with Tourette syndrome and published by the EtonHouse Community Fund (ECF), is based on a heart-to-heart talk between Zachary and his principal, Ms. Josephyne Ho from EtonHouse Pre-School. The interactive read-along book comes with augmented reality (AR) features and will be distributed to 800 primary schools, kindergartens, and pre-schools around Singapore. It will also be available at public libraries and Molly, the Mobile Library operated by National Library Board to serve special needs students.
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Tourette Syndrome and Me was first published digitally on social media in October 2020. It quickly caught attention from parents, teachers, and education leaders, expressing how meaningful the book was for children.
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Very soon, ECF started receiving requests for this book to be shared with their school communities. To further its cause and enable more children to access this book, ECF raised funds to produce it in an interactive, physical format as an educational resource for pre-school and primary schools.
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This book gives an authentic glimpse into Zacharyâs fears and anxieties. âI didnât want to go to school because I didnât want my friends to see my twitching. I was worried that my friends would laugh at me.â When he realised that his friendsâ reactions were because they did not understand Tourette Syndrome, he set out to create awareness amongst them about it. Encouraged by his principal and supported by ECF, he co-created this book, a process that has made him more confident and less fearful of the reactions from his peers. Through this book, he wanted to help others understand that there is nothing wrong with being different.
Click here to read more on Straits Times.
This book aims to:
Help children develop empathy to build warm, kind, and respectful connections with others
Raise awareness about different abilities and celebrate diversity
Create opportunities for adults to have sensitive and healing conversations with children
Empower children to inspire others
Ms. Josehyne Ho, Senior Principal of EtonHouse Pre-School 223 Mountbatten, who initiated this book, says, âI hope that more people can understand the potentially difficult social struggles and stigma, real or imagined, that children with Tourette Syndrome have to endure. I also wish for this book to offer parents with children who are in similar situations a platform to start conversations about how they can overcome their fears and talk about them with confidence.â
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The book is being retailed at S$25 per copy for fundraising. All proceeds from the sales of the book will go to activities for underprivileged children. Get your copy here.
ECF has launched Teacher Everywhereâ˘, the first teacher training volunteer programme in Singapore to support disadvantaged children.
The EtonHouse Community Fund (ECF) has launched Teacher Everywhereâ˘, an innovative programme to train âVolunteer Teachersâ for free to enable them to work with and teach children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Recruitment of volunteers started in October 2020, and within three weeks, ECF received an overwhelming response from more than 200 volunteers stepping forward to express interest to be a part of Teacher Everywhereâ˘. They come from diverse backgrounds, nationalities and professions, from homemakers, scientists to doctors. Many of them are parents, while some secondary and high school students have also signed up to volunteer.
EtonHouse educators and trainers have been hired to train the volunteers.
The key highlights of the programme are
The course will be delivered over 6 sessions and includes 2 practicums.
Volunteers are not required to have a prior background or experience in teaching.
The course content will include child development, classroom management, communication with children, managing challenging behavior, positive guidance, strategies for leading effective story-telling and learning experiences.
The course including all materials are free of charge and will be delivered by highly experienced and trained early childhood leaders and facilitators from EtonHouse.
On the successful completion of the course, the volunteers will be certified to facilitate Joyful Learning, an exclusive programme created for children 4-6 years old. Based on 40 classic storybooks, the year-long programme delivered every week to children from disadvantaged families will cover literacy, numeracy, creative expression and fine motor skills. Volunteers will also engage parents during these sessions, supporting them with practical tips to extend their childrenâs learning at home.
No child should be left behind. Through Teacher Everywhere and our Joyful Learning programme, ECF hopes to increase our outreach and improve the lives of underprivileged children by equipping them with skills and knowledge to be successful in school and beyond.
Mrs. Ng Gim Choo, Founder and Director of EtonHouse Community Fund
The programme was inspired by a ground-up initiative in 2019 which saw EtonHouse teachers providing weekly English enrichment classes to 3-4-year-old children at Henderson WeLL Centre. Says Ms. Josephyne Ho, Principal of EtonHouse at Mountbatten who led her team on the year-long volunteering journey and has now joined as a Teacher Everywhere⢠mentor, âAs many of my teammates are teachers with young families, it took a lot to give up their family time during weekends.
I am extremely grateful to have a team of like-minded teachers who understand the value of literacy skills especially for children who are at risk. The children picked up literacy skills and experienced the joy of learning and reading. To see them attend the sessions with enthusiasm and learn to read was extremely rewarding.â
Mrs. Ng Gim Choo, Founder of the EtonHouse International Group and EtonHouse Community Fund, who initiated the thinking behind Teacher Everywhere⢠says âNo child should be left behind. Through Teacher Everywhere⢠and our Joyful Learning programme, ECF hopes to increase our outreach and improve the lives of vulnerable children by equipping them with skills and knowledge to be successful in school and beyond.â
Upon completion of training, Teacher Everywhere⢠volunteers will partner with various community groups to work directly with children and families from disadvantaged backgrounds. To sign up as a volunteer or partner, connect with ECF at enquiry@ehcommunityfund.org.sg