We hope to utilise this fund raising campaign, so as to provide a platform for financially disadvantaged children to showcase their talents and realise their full artistic potential. We hope to reach out to more children and youths and at the same time, promote higher quality arts education for children and youths.

Initiated in 2004 and adopted by The Business Times in 2005, The Business Times Budding Artists Fund (BT BAF) originated from a conviction that no child with the strong interest and potential in the arts should be denied the opportunity to develop his or her talents due to a lack of financial resources.

Since 2005, BT BAF has reached out to more than 18,000 financially-disadvantaged children and youth, between the ages of six to 19 years old, through a variety of programmes including camps, workshops, signature events and structured arts training programmes in Music, Dance, Theatre, Visual Arts and Tech+Arts. Beneficiaries receive lessons at arts training centres, The Little Arts Academy and 10 Square which are supported by the Fund and managed by The RICE Company Limited, a registered charity with IPC status. For more information, visit www.baf.sg.