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Building A New Home

We Need Your Generous Support

As our Home is not Government-funded, we depend on the community to raise this sum.

Little drops of water make a mighty ocean, we appeal for your continuous support.  You can donate at Giving.sg or PayNow to UEN S61SS0176G1GFThank you very much!

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(Please state name_NRIC in the reference field for tax-deduction purpose)

Name a Room

Room

SGD

Community Roof Garden

Community Roof Garden

1,500,000

Level Three (12 Apartments)

Apartment

720,000

Level Four (12 Apartments)

Apartment

720,000

Level Five (9 Apartments and Staff Accommodation)

Apartment

720,000

Dining Hall

dining_Hall

1,000,000

Therapeutic / Sensory Garden (Outside Community Hall)

500,000

Physiotherapy Lounge

physiotherapy_lounge

500,000

Counselling Room 2

50,000

Apartment for four residents with ensuite toilet and bathroom (per unit)

Apartment

60,000

Personal Cozy Corner of 1 bed and 1 cabinet (per unit)

Personal-CozyCorner

10,000

Community Hall (donated)

1,500,000

Activity Lounge (donated)

activity_lounge

500,000

Open Terrace (2nd Level) (donated)

200,000

Clinic (donated)

200,000

Social Room (donated)

100,000

Conference Room (donated)

100,000

Administrative Office (donated)

100,000

Counselling Room 1 (donated)

50,000

Volunteers Room (donated)

50,000

Equipment Sponsor

Equipment

SGD

Bench (per unit)

Bench

8,000

To find out more, please contact:

Lynn Ng at +65-62854446 or cp.frm@stjohneldershome.org.sg

  • Your donation qualifies for tax relief at 250%
  • The amount can be paid in full, or in three annual installments
  • A plaque will be displayed at the entrance of the donated room
  • The room can be named after a deceased person, or an organisation (e.g. church), or a corporate identity, with the name of the donor inscribed on the plaque
  • Subject to availability
  • Persons giving $10,000 or more (cumulative amount from 2017 to 2020) will be eligible to have their names inscribed on a Donors Wall displayed at the entrance to the building
LOGO-AAMER-ARCHITECT

About The Winner

Aamer Taher’s designs are well known for their ‘flair and curves’. He views every carefully sculptured project as a work of Art, conceived through thorough appreciation of site, context and brief.

Aamer Architects’ design for our new Home was selected as one of the finalists in the Health Future Projects category, at the World Architecture Festival held in Amsterdam from 28th to 30th November 2018.

Take a look at our new Home at 1 Willow Avenue S347508!

Background

We have occupied 69 Wan Tho Avenue since the Home’s inception in 1958.  The lease on the land expired on 31 December 2015. We were granted a fresh 30-year lease beginning on 1 January 2016 for 3,300sqm, a part of the 12,000sqm of land we have long occupied. 

As of May 2021, we have completed building a new 5-storey building to maximise the stipulated plot ratio of 1.4 and increase our licensed capacity to 144 elderly persons.

The new Home is located at 1 Willow Avenue S347508, just next to the current Home.

Architectural Design Competition

Aamer Architects, reputed for their contemporary equatorial architectural designs, has emerged as winner of the Architectural Design Competition jointly organised by the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) and the St. John’s Home for Elderly Persons between April and July 2016. The winning design is set apart by its distinctive facade character and efficient-compact building mass.

The Design Competition seeks to generate new and fresh ideas and secure the best design for its new five-storey building, providing facilities and services not only to its present Residents but to the elderly living in the surrounding precincts i.e. Sennett Estate, Potong Pasir, Joo Seng and Bidadari Town. The Home is envisaged to be an integrated service facility centre serving the needs of the elderly in the community as a Sheltered Home.

This two-staged competition saw 52 entries, where seven were shortlisted.  Aamer Architects' serrated profile plan and well-thought-out design was selected as the winning entry.

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