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Due to large number of participating organizations, the competition will be carried out in 3 phases as listed below.

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As funded jointly by the Lotteries Fund and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, IEAPs are to be launched by NGOs in a 4-year period from October 2003 to September 2007.

Interested applicants are invited to attend a briefing session to be held on 14.4.2005 to understand more about the third batch of IEAPs before sending in their proposals. The closing date for submission of applications will be on 7 May 2005 (on or before 12:00 noon).

For details of the briefing session and application on the third batch of IEAPs, please click here. Acrobat Document MS Word Document

To be eligible to submit an application, the applicant must be a bona fide non-profit making agency with at least two years' experience in providing employment assistance to their client groups in Hong Kong.

To download the IEAP Application Form, please click here. Acrobat Document MS Word Document

Please also read Important Notes to Applicant Organisations before completing the Application Form Acrobat Document MS Word Document

The following are relevant to your application:   The distribution of Social Security Field Units by SWD Districts. Acrobat Document MS Word Document       The distribution and profile of the unemployed CSSA recipients. Acrobat Document MS Excel Document       The distribution of the first batch of 70 projects currently implemented in SWD Districts. Distribution of 40 Projects of the First Batch of Intensive Employment Assistance Projects (IEAPs) Acrobat Document MS Excel Document Distribution of 30 Projects of the Second Batch of Intensive Employment Assistance Projects (IEAPs) Acrobat Document MS Excel Document         The Number of projects required in each district in the third batch IEAPs. Acrobat Document MS Word Document

Subventions Branch
Social Welfare Department
Room 3001, Wu Chung House,
213 Queen's Road East,
Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

Tel. No. : (852) 2832 4333

Fax No : (852) 2151 0573

e-mail address : sfc@swd.gov.hk

Site visits and a briefing session will be held with schedules as follows:

Service proposal of no more than 60 pages (A4 with font size at 12 and in 5 hard copies and 1 soft copy), should be sent on or before 30 April 2005 (Saturday), 12:00 noon to the following address:

Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch
(Attn: Mr CHAN Kwok Ho, SS(RM)1)
Social Welfare Department
Rm 901, Wu Chung House
213 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

Late application will not be accepted. The same NGO tendering for both projects will also render the applications disqualified.

For access to the Invitation Letter (copy), Summaries and full sets of the Service Specifications and related Annexes of both the projects, please click here:

Details of the invitation can be downloaded here:

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You can also click here to HKCSS website for more information.

All along, the Social Welfare Department and the non-governmental organizations have been providing different welfare services to needy individuals/families to enable them to prevent and deal with the problems they encountered. Besides, some non-governmental organizations and community organizations also provide different types of in-kind assistance to help the needy to tide over their difficulties. A list of the organizations providing in-kind assistance (Chinese only) is attached below for general reference.

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We invite bona-fide charitable non-governmental organizations recognized under Inland Revenue Ordinance (Cap. 112) Section 88 which have their own distinct legal entities authorized to carry out business activities in Hong Kong to apply for the grants from the Project.

Please click here to download the Guidebook (in PDF format) for more information. The application form is also available from here (in WORD format).

The Social Welfare Department announces that with the endorsement of the Lotteries Fund Advisory Committee, flag sale may be conducted from 7:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the allocated flag days starting from September 2005. The new time slot will, on the one hand, give the organisations one and a half hours more on the flag days to facilitate deploying their resources to increase their street collection, and will, on the other hand, minimise additional costs or manpower implications which would have been incurred if flag sale hours were extended beyond 12:30 p.m. into the afternoon. The new arrangement has taken into account the feedback of those organisations participated in the trial extension of flag selling hours during April 2005, the views of other charitable organisations and the public reaction in general.