Program

Singapore Olympic Foundation-Peter Lim Scholarship

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Overview

In 2010, Peter Lim donated $10 million to the Singapore Olympic Foundation to start the SOF – Peter Lim Scholarship. This initiative remains the single largest donation in Singapore towards sports development.

In 2019, Peter renewed his commitment to sports development by pledging an additional $10 million to continue to fund the scholarship from 2021 – 2030.

Since the inception of the SOF – Peter Lim Scholarship, 5,629 scholarships have been disbursed in four categories: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and High Performance Under-18, to students across 55 sports. Recipients can use the monies to pay for their competition expenses, buy sport equipment as well as to cover school-related expenses.

The SOF – Peter Lim Scholarship aims to:

  • Help young deserving sports talents from financially challenged backgrounds to achieve their sporting goals; and
  • Support young high performing athletes under the age of 18 years old to pursue sporting excellence in their chosen fields
  • Previous beneficiaries of the SOF-Peter Lim Scholarship include Joseph Schooling (swimming), Shayna Ng (bowling), Martina Lindsay Veloso (shooting), Veronica Shanti Pereira (athletics) and Adam Swandi (football).

 

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Testimonial

“ I want to work my way up to be the top in Singapore and hopefully I get to be the first Singaporean to represent us in Taekwondo at the Olympics. ”

Daycia Low