Connect someone to help
Help a person identify the right service, organisation, professional pathway or community resource.
What Project 61 is about
One person. One connection. One meaningful act at a time.
“Sometimes Project 61 will act directly. Sometimes we will connect you to someone better equipped to help. Both are successful outcomes.”
Project 61 is not another directory and does not try to replace existing charities, social service agencies, government services or volunteer platforms. We begin with a simple question: What are you trying to do, or what help are you trying to find?
Contribute something useful
Offer time, skills, knowledge, companionship, practical assistance or professional expertise.
Create a community action
Test a simple idea where a real gap exists — a senior walk, accessible exercise, digital support, befriending activity or another useful local initiative.
Mission
To help people find a constructive next step, turn useful skills into meaningful contribution, and support practical community action with dignity, safety and respect.
Vision
A stronger and more compassionate community where people know where to turn, every generation is valued, and goodwill can become responsible action.
Why “61”?
Project 61 began as an evergreen community initiative in Singapore’s 61st year. The number marks its origin — the mission continues beyond a single year.
What Project 61 can be:
A starting point, connector, community pilot platform, volunteer pathway and place to turn a useful idea into a responsible next step.
A starting point, connector, community pilot platform, volunteer pathway and place to turn a useful idea into a responsible next step.
What Project 61 is not:
An emergency service, substitute family, case-management agency, medical provider, legal adviser, financial adviser or replacement for established specialist organisations.
An emergency service, substitute family, case-management agency, medical provider, legal adviser, financial adviser or replacement for established specialist organisations.
How Project 61 works
Listen → Connect → Act → Safeguard
1
Listen
Understand the real need, contribution or idea without unnecessary labels or complicated forms.
2
Connect
Identify an appropriate person, existing organisation, official resource, volunteer pathway or partner.
3
Act
Where there is a genuine gap, support a practical and proportionate community action.
4
Safeguard
Protect the dignity, privacy, safety and boundaries of both the person receiving help and the person helping.
Choose your path
What brings you here?
I Need Help
I need a sensible starting point for myself, a family member or someone I am assisting.
I Want to Help
I would like to contribute time, skills or practical support in a responsible way.
I Represent an Organisation
I want to explore referrals, volunteer needs, partnerships or a shared community initiative.
I Have an Idea
I see a community need or have a ground-up idea that may be worth testing.
Examples of good we can do together
Project 61 can start small and stay useful.
Community Walks
Simple, accessible neighbourhood walks for older adults, with clear participation criteria and safe facilitation.
Senior-Friendly Movement
Appropriate exercise or mobility activities supported by screening, qualified facilitation and clear scope.
Digital Help
Assist older adults with basic digital confidence while maintaining privacy and avoiding access to passwords or financial accounts.
Befriending With Boundaries
Structured companionship with training, defined contact expectations, escalation pathways and volunteer support.
Skills for Good
Match useful professional or practical skills with an organisation or community need that can genuinely benefit.
Right Help, Right Place
Sometimes the best outcome is simply connecting a person to an established service that already knows how to help.
Community boundaries
Compassion needs boundaries.
Project 61 volunteers and contributors are not expected to become substitute family members, counsellors, case managers, medical professionals, financial advisers or 24/7 emergency contacts. Clear boundaries protect everyone.
What volunteers may do
- Listen respectfully and provide ordinary companionship within the agreed role.
- Share public information and help identify an appropriate next step.
- Join approved activities such as walks, community events or simple support tasks.
- Observe and report concerns to the Project 61 coordinator.
- Maintain professional boundaries and agreed contact times.
What volunteers must not do
- No money or banking: no loans, ATM withdrawals, PINs, investments or handling significant cash.
- No wills or inheritance: no beneficiary arrangements or estate involvement arising from the volunteer relationship.
- No medical, legal or financial advice outside a properly authorised professional role.
- No romantic, sexual, coercive or exploitative relationships.
- No substantial gifts without reporting and approval under policy.
- No unrestricted personal availability: volunteers are not 24/7 contacts.
- No unapproved home visits, transport or private outings.
- No social-media stories, photos or recordings without proper informed consent and programme approval.
- No personal selling, solicitation, political persuasion or religious pressure.
Important boundary: A warm relationship is welcome. Dependency is not the goal. If a participant becomes highly dependent on one volunteer, repeatedly crosses boundaries, demands exclusive contact, or the volunteer feels unsafe or overwhelmed, the situation should be brought back to Project 61 for review and a broader support plan.
Safeguarding escalation
Green. Amber. Red.
GREEN — Within normal scope
Ordinary companionship, community activity, simple information, basic support and agreed communication.
AMBER — Report and review
Repeated dependency, inappropriate messages, significant gifts, family conflict, persistent boundary crossing, worrying living conditions or escalating distress.
RED — Stop and escalate
Immediate danger, violence, suspected serious abuse, exploitation, medical emergency, serious self-neglect, sexual misconduct or threats. Volunteers do not investigate these situations themselves.
Volunteer protection matters too. A volunteer may end an interaction, leave a location and report the incident if they feel unsafe, threatened, harassed, pressured or repeatedly pushed beyond the agreed role.
Founder & Project Lead
Clear accountability first. Collaboration as Project 61 grows.
Project 61 can begin founder-led, with one clear mission and one accountable project lead. As it grows, the initiative can add an advisory circle, partner organisations, safeguarding support, volunteers and subject-matter contributors.
A co-founder role should be reserved for someone who genuinely shares long-term responsibility for governance, strategy, reputation, safeguarding and execution — not simply someone who supports the idea.
Founder & Project Lead Advisory Circle Community Partners Professional Contributors Volunteers61 Acts of Dignity
Measure useful outcomes, not just attention.
An act can be one person connected to the right help, one senior joining a safe community activity, one useful skill matched to a need, or one small community idea tested responsibly.
Act 01
Connect one person to the right support.
Act 02
Create one safe and useful community activity.
Act 03
Match one volunteer skill to one real need.
Long-term goal: build an anonymised impact ledger that records what Project 61 actually helped achieve, while protecting personal privacy.
Privacy-first first contact
Tell us only what we need to know.
First contact should be simple and proportionate. Project 61 deliberately avoids asking for NRIC numbers, detailed medical diagnoses, financial account information, full home addresses or uploaded documents at this stage.