Raffles Institution (RI) has been and will always be a school that serves Singapore and the world through the quality, vision and impact of its education, and through the generations of leaders that it has produced.

The changes wrought by globalisation, however, have shifted the boundaries of what it means to provide an excellent education. Maintaining RI’s margin of excellence, and being able to equip our students with the education they need to become leaders in a complex and interrelated world, requires deeper resourcing.

That’s why in 2009, we set up the 1823 Fund, named after the year in which RI was founded.

The 1823 Fund’s mission is to support, through fundraising and structured philanthropy, the educational and community service goals of RI. It wants to preserve RI’s strong traditions of personal commitment, intellectual endeavour and social responsibility. It also encourages all Rafflesians to engage more fully in the life of this remarkable school, and help shape its future.

Structure of the 1823 Fund

The 1823 Fund is a hybrid fund, part operating fund and part endowment fund.

As an operating fund, it enables the school to spring into action when it encounters immediate areas of financial need not met or not fully met by government funding.

As an endowment fund, it has the long-term goal of generating the financial resources needed to ensure the sustainability of the school’s programmes and initiatives.

Your moral and financial support of the 1823 Fund make it possible for future generations of Rafflesian students and faculty to excel, imagine, thrive and discover – indeed, to be ‘the hope of a better age’.

For more information, click here to visit the 1823 Fund website now.

Download the form here.