Our volunteers come from all walks of life to support our patients' recovery. They spend time engaging our patients in activities like art and craft, music, games and more. We welcome students, working adults, homemakers, retirees, senior citizens, corporate or community groups.
Volunteers assist with patient care tasks and support patients with their daily activities in our adult wards. General responsibilities include:
Night Sitter Programme
Volunteers watch over elderly patients who are at risk of falls and look out for their safety. They spend three hours between 9pm to 8am, next day to engage our patients in light activities and make them comfortable so they can sleep better. General responsibilities include:
Music Programmes
Music has always been comforting to many people and makes our patients feel relaxed or happy. Share your music with our patients, caregivers and visitors if you play a musical instrument e.g. piano, flute or sing.
The volunteers team works with numerous music groups, including schools and musicians from overseas to bring music into our hospital community. Anglo-Chinese Junior College and Hwa Chong Institution (College) performed music for our geriatric inpatients, as well as engage them in simple interactive activities using music as a medium. In July 2025, Gyulbit Women's Choir from Jeju Island held a special performance showcasing their melodious voices at Medical Centre.
Sing-Me-A-Story
Our community partner, Sing'theatre brings cheer and smile to our paediatric patients every fortnight. Characters dressed in princesses' and superhero's costumes will sing and act, delighting our young patients.
Ensemble Kanon
Comprising musicians who come from Japan, the trio met in Singapore and have been passionate about sharing their music monthly in the hospital since September 2023.
Playing the piano, clarinet and flute, they perform monthly from 11.00am to 11.30am and 12.00pm to 12.30pm at Medical Centre, level 3 (near the Pharmacy), enchanting the audience with their beautiful music renditions.
Silver Sing-along
A ground-up initiative founded by a group of seniors who play the piano and sing to a repertoire of oldies and classics in different languages, eg. English, Mandarin, Chinese dialects, Spanish and Japanese. They perform once a month during lunchtime at Medical Centre, bringing joy and smiles to many.
We welcome individuals and groups keen to organise ad-hoc activities (e.g. festive visits, art and craft or learn a new skill) for our patients. Share your proposal here.
One of our regular partners - Project KRaft from the Rotaract Club of National University of Singapore (NUS) organised several art and craft sessions yearly for our inpatients to celebrate occasions such as Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, International Women's Day and Deepavali. With their creative ideas, these volunteers keep our patients occupied with meaningful activities such as tote bag painting, paper flower, flashlight art and 3D card.
If your organisation, company or educational institution is looking for volunteering experiences to engage your staff/members/students and promote social responsibility or drive positive changes, we love to hear from you. Contact us to discuss about potential partnership or share your proposal here.
We currently work with volunteers from the United World College Southeast Asia (Dover), Nanyang Junior College and Tampines-Meridian Junior College. They spend time befriending our patients and interact through conversations and leisure activities such as board and card games.
Hear from our volunteers on why they volunteer at NUH. Click here.
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