To celebrate The Grandstand’s first anniversary on 1 March 2013, Cogent Land Capital launched a charity project named the “WALK Project” We All Love Kids. WALK is part of the Group’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiative to share the fun and enriching facilities at The Grandstand with underprivileged children from Melrose Home.
Melrose Home provides a supportive environment for children and teenagers with care and protection within a residential setting. Melrose Home currently houses about 45 children and is located 2 kilometres from The Grandstand.
Every month, children from Melrose Home spends a day of fun and enrichment at The Grandstand attending enrichment classes, kids’ sports and fitness activities, arts and crafts, music, dance, taekwondo as well as feast on the Grandstand’s delectable range of international cuisine.
Cogent’s Ex-CEO Benson Tan presenting a cheque of $255,000 to representatives of St Luke’s Eldercare, witnessed by Guest of Honour, Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan and Member of Parliament representing the Holland-Bukit Timah GRC, Sim Ann.
Benson Tan, Ex-CEO of Cogent, speaking to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Member of Parliament for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC Sim Ann at the Bukit Timah constituency’s 60th anniversary carnival where the Cogent-sponsored Bukit Timah Eldercare Project was launched.
