Welfare Services Club is a non-academic constituent clubs in NTU which provide an umbrella of voluntary activities and social work. We consists of 4 committees namely Regular Service Projects (RSPs), Special Projects, Supporting Committees and Volunteer Management (VM).

Regular Service Projects

Regular Service Projects (RSPs) provide a wide array of volunteering opportunities for student volunteers whom are keen on hands on experience in volunteering with the less fortunate in our society. Currently, WSC has a total of 6 RSPs serving in different areas. They include RSP Youth, RSP Hearing Impaired, RSP Elders, RSP Intellectually Disabled, RSP Visually Handicap and RSP Friends of Children. Our RSPs volunteers commit on a weekly basics, in serving their beneficiary group under their care. It is the dedication of our volunteers that has continued to brighten the days of our beneficiaries. May the spirit of volunteerism shine in you too!

Special Projects

Volunteerism can take an unconventional twist with our 4 special projects, encompassing both local and overseas projects, which have established themselves well within and beyond the university. Our overseas projects include Camp OutReach (COR) and Overseas Volunteering Expedition (OVE). Locally, we also have 2 special projects known as Challenge ur Limits (CurL) and Patchworks of Flavours (POF). Volunteers engaged in special projects will gain invaluable skills such as entrepreneurship, evens management, planning, coordination and many more. More importantly, through special projects, we hope to provide an opportunity for the less privileged to join us in what we have planned for them and for volunteers to come forward and offer their service in a unique way.

Supporting Committees

Our supporting committees include Publicity & Publications (PnP), Public Relations (PR), Growth & Development Unit (GDU) and Finance. These committees provide a supporting role to club's image through promotion of the club, providing coverage for events, website management, newsletter production, liaison with external welfare organizations, finance, archiving of club's achievements and more. Being one of the largest student clubs in NTU with over 700 volunteers, the supporting committees help ensure the smooth operation of the club and are given the role of preserving and improving the image of WSC since it began in 1984.

Volunteer Management (VM)

VM is the core committee in WSC that seeks to promote volunteerism amongst our students and beyond through ad-hoc events such as their annual event, Kid's World. VM also reaches out to external voluntary welfare organizations to join in their events and to provide ad-hoc volunteering opportunities for NTU students who are keen to volunteer with us.

It all started with a man's passion for community work and desire to contribute to the society. Then, a 3rd Year MPE undergraduate, Mr Tay and his group of friends harboured on an ambitious vision to setup a club that provides community services to society's underprivileged not only within NTI (Nanyang Technological Institute), but also extending to other tertiary institutions and community centres. Hence, NTI's first WSC was born in 1985.

Start up was an uphill task, to raise awareness among academically-oriented students. With only 5 committee members, the pioneering batch of WSC tried everything to encourage participation.

Despite these obstacles, these passion driven youngsters pursued on with community work, starting a tuition program for poor children. To raise funds, the members bought 2 photocopying machines for photocopying reference books to be sold for profits.

Although the volunteer program did not take off as well as Mr. Tay wanted, one cannot help but admire the sense of solidarity and resourcefulness that they displayed.

From there, the NTU Welfare Services Club has come a long way. WSC, being one of the three non-academic constituent clubs in NTU, is the largest organization that provides an umbrella of voluntary activities and social work.

During the early years of the club, the focus was on raising awareness among the students on the need to reach out to the less privileged community. Since then, WSC has transformed into a club with six Regular Service Projects (RSPs) and a calendar full of fund raising events and projects. Throughout these years, its members shared the 4 common objectives:

1. To provide services to the voluntary welfare organizations.
2. To promote voluntary community service among students of the university.
3. To instill a sense of social awareness among students and staff of the University.
4. To afford a recognized mean of communication between the University and all other external voluntary welfare organizations.