A Corporate Leader in Mental Health
JC&C supports MINDSET holistically, through providing financial contributions, people, expertise and resources. Annually, JC&C donates and commits funds to MINDSET to support its activities and the mental health social service agencies which MINDSET partners with.
Our senior leaders are actively involved in the governance and operations of the charity. JC&C’s Group Managing Director is the Chairman of MINDSET, and JC&C’s Group General Counsel is the Chief Executive Officer of MINDSET. Various members of JC&C’s management are also advisors to the MINDSET Steering Committee in key areas of communications, legal and treasury.
In addition, JC&C also supports MINDSET through employee volunteers known as Jardine Ambassadors. Since 2011, JC&C has had 50 Jardine Ambassadors who committed over 10,000 volunteer hours for mental health.
MINDSET: The Jardine Matheson Charity for Mental Health
MINDSET was established in 2011 to support the mental health community in Singapore through two key focus areas:
- Awareness & Outreach: To combat social stigma surrounding mental health issues by raising awareness and understanding among Jardine employees and the public. MINDSET organises talks, campaigns and Mini-MINDSET activity days to engage and educate others on mental health and wellness.
- Fundraising and allocation: To raise funds through community and corporate partnerships or engagements for mental health social service agencies and related programmes.
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Creating a long-term impact
The MINDSET Learning Hub was launched in October 2016 as MINDSET’s first flagship project. The hub was set up in partnership with the Singapore Association for Mental Health (“SAMH”) providing training and job placement opportunities for mental health persons-in-recovery. The hub is located at Jurong East and has a functioning café, MLH Café, which serves customers and provides first-hand learning experience for clients training in the food & beverage industry.
MINDSET recognises the importance of going upstream and contributing to early intervention in mental health-related issues. In August 2019, MINDSET partnered TOUCH Community Services to launch DigitalMINDSET, a nine-month intervention programme focused on managing pathological gamers’ addictive behaviour among youths while keeping their mental health in check. The programme includes individual counselling and group therapy, as well as learning journeys to Jardine companies for youths enrolled in the programme to gain an understanding of a life outside of gaming and think of possible careers for themselves.
Navigating with Good Governance
MINDSET strongly believes in upholding high standards of corporate governance and transparency as a charity. This builds confidence among stakeholders and trust in donors as they continue to support the mental health community.
MINDSET is a five-time recipient of the Charity Transparency Award for its exemplary transparency and governance practices, as well as the Charity Governance Award for small charities in 2018 and 2022, conferred by Singapore’s Charity Council.
Jardines and MINDSET were conferred the President's Volunteerism & Philanthropy Awards 2021, Organisations of Good (Large Enterprise), by the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre ("NVPC") for achieving excellence in corporate giving. In addition, Jardines was also named “Champion of Good” by NVPC in 2018, 2020 and 2022 for efforts in leading the way in corporate giving. In 2024, JC&C was also named Company of Good (3 Hearts) conferred by NVPC.