Welcome to The Good Weekend!

This National Day, we invite you to celebrate Singapore in a way that truly matters - by supporting the people, stories, and small businesses that make our community stronger. Taking place on 9 & 10 August at The Foundry, a social impact space in the historic former Elections Department building, this marketplace is more than an event. It’s a gathering of purpose-driven local brands, changemakers, and conscious consumers who believe in doing good while having a good time. ✨

Expect a curated lineup of homegrown vendors with sustainable products, handmade crafts, heritage treats, and unique finds - all created with a mission to give back. 🌿 Whether you're here to discover something new, support a cause close to your heart, or simply enjoy the festive vibes with loved ones, there’s something for everyone.

Look forward to interactive booths, community activities, and delicious food and drinks - all with a strong focus on inclusivity, culture, and impact. So come by, slow down, and soak in the spirit of Singapore - where tradition meets innovation and community comes first. Every small purchase or conversation makes a difference as we build a more caring, connected future together. ❤️

A Heritage Landmark Reimagined for National Day 🇸🇬

This year’s event takes place in a building that holds deep meaning for our nation — the former Elections Department at 11 Prinsep Link.

For nearly three decades, this was where Singapore’s election results were announced, shaping the course of our country's future. Now reimagined as The Foundry, a vibrant hub for social impact organisations, it remains a space for collective action and change.

There’s no better place to gather this National Day - to honour our past, celebrate the present, and build toward a better tomorrow.

Be Part of Something Meaningful
Get Your Tickets Now! 🎟️
Join us for a National Day celebration that gives back! Entry is free, but spaces are limited, so secure your spot early to enjoy exclusive vendor promos, workshops, and community activities.

Want extra perks? 🎉 Get The Good Pass for just $6 to skip the queue, enjoy a free drink, receive a Bettr Tumbler worth $28.90 (while stocks last), and unlock special discounts at partner stores and The Social Space café.

Come spend the day shopping, learning, and connecting with our community. We can’t wait to see you there! ❤️
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Event Highlights

🎙️ "My Singapore Story" Sessions

Step into our podcast room and share a short memory or thought about life in Singapore — from National Day moments to hawker centre favourites. Whether it’s heartfelt, funny or uniquely you, we want to hear it. Selected stories may be featured in a special community podcast!

📚 Kids’ Storytelling & Book Swap Session

Bring the little ones for a fun and interactive storytelling session featuring Singapore-themed tales and local authors. After the stories, kids can join a casual book swap - simply bring a pre-loved children’s book and exchange it for a new read! Suitable for ages 3–10.

🎵 Live DJ

Get ready to groove as our DJ spins an upbeat mix of feel-good tracks, weaving in beloved National Day classics that’ll have you singing along in no time. From nostalgic favourites to catchy local hits, it’s the perfect soundtrack to shop, snack, and celebrate Singapore together.

🛍️ Featured Brands & Social Enterprises

Celebrating Women Through Art Pieces

Ambi Arts is a Singapore art brand that celebrates boldness, culture, and heritage with heart. From vibrant trays to home art, each hand-painted piece tells stories of women, local history, and nature, bringing joy and meaning to daily life. Their art honors the resilience, spirit, and rich diversity of our community.

Ambi Arts

Quirky Hawker-themed Merch

Artably is a social enterprise building an inclusive creative community through art and storytelling. By shopping their #ArtablyAwesome creations, you support outreach projects for disadvantaged kids, helping shape a kinder, more compassionate world — one shape at a time.

Artably

Pesticide-Free Vegetables

Bilberries Blue is a purpose-driven enterprise blending sustainability, social impact, and inclusive community building. They offer an ecosystem of resources and funding, and founded The Happy Heart School to support special needs children through care, creativity, and play.

Bilberries Blue

Handmade Diamond Art

B’s Treasure Crafts features diamond art by Bernice, an artist with autism from Rainbow Centre. She pours hours of care into each creation. By buying her treasures, you support her joy of crafting and help her continue sharing beautiful pieces with the world.

B's Treasure Crafts

Design Your Own Local Breakfast Coaster

Create your own ceramic coasters through the unique art of water marbling, inspired by local breakfast icons like kopi and kaya toast. Run by a Co:Creation Workshop, a social enterprise that promotes inclusion through art with persons with disabilities.

Co:Creation Workshop

Reusable Colouring Mats

Erda Ally makes eco-living easy with durable, reusable silicone products that cut plastic waste. Known for their award-winning Doodle Dat colouring mats, all items are safe, non-toxic, and built to last. With minimal packaging, they help families care for the planet effortlessly.

Erda Ally

Stories of South East Asia

Faction Press is a micropress sharing Southeast Asian non-fiction with the world. With titles featuring Singapore voices on trauma, grief, and hope, they spotlight real human stories. A portion of profits supports The T Project, a resident at The Foundry.

Faction Press

Beeswax Food Wraps

Functional, beautifully designed beeswax food wraps, sourced sustainably from a small family-owned apiary in Australia. Goodness Gracious is passionate about reducing the amount of single use plastic on earth and want to empower sustainable lifestyle in every home.

GOODNESS GRACIOUS

Custom Travel Kits

Hodo Kits offers custom, liquid-free, vegan travel kits made in Singapore. Perfect for eco-conscious journeys, each kit supports a good cause — with 5% of profits donated to Food from the Heart, helping feed those in need.

Hodo Kits

Hand-illustrated Stickers & Gifts

Letters Of Praise turns everyday moments into little celebrations with original illustrations on paper goods, stickers, and homeware. Each piece adds warmth, whimsy, and joy to daily life. Gift well, gift intentionally, and make the ordinary beautifully memorable.

Letters of Praise

Sustainable Indoor Plants

Little Botany champions urban gardening that supports eco-friendly living, social inclusion, and positive community change. They share a love for beautifying homes with plants, spreading joy through little pots that bring nature and happiness into everyday spaces.

Little Botany

Macrame & Weaving Art

Macramenian x Hoopla weaves stories through knots, loops, and handmade details. From textured wall art to crochet keychains, each piece is crafted with love using cotton, yarn, and reclaimed materials. Rooted in care and community, we celebrate slow, sustainable creation—one thread, one stitch at a time.

Macremanian

Embroidered Gifts & Goods

Momshoo is a mother-daughter venture that began with hand-sewn plush toys and now includes charming hand-knits. Like “mushrooms,” their name hints at creations popping up everywhere. Each handmade piece is unique and personal, a heartfelt gift with all its lovely quirks.

Momshoo

Whimsical-design Ceramics

Ocio Ceramics is a Singapore-based, small-batch pottery studio creating vibrant, illustrated ceramics for your kitchen and home. Inspired by children’s books and comics, their pieces champion colour and playful, whimsical touches that bring joy and character to everyday living.

Ocio Ceramics

Plant-based Hair & Body Care

Patrichory makes plant-based hair and body care in Singapore with sustainably sourced, premium ingredients. Their pH-balanced formulas combine natural actives, traditional herbs, and aromatherapy to care for scalp, hair, and skin. Free from harsh chemicals and cruelty, all products come in eco-friendly, low- or zero-waste packaging.

Patrichory

Supporting Home-Based Makers

Ray of Hope is a non-profit charity and crowdfunding platform dedicated to building a stronger, more inclusive community for those overlooked by traditional support. They offer case management, counselling, interventions, home visits, and more to help uplift lives.

Ray of hope

Upcycled Glassware

Refind is a creative studio in Singapore turning discarded glass into art, design, and learning. Founded by a skilled glass blower, they upcycle waste like wine bottles into functional cups. Through workshops and community projects, they show glass waste is just a beautiful new beginning.

Refind

Books by Incarcerated Parents

New Life Stories works to prevent intergenerational incarceration by giving every child a fairer start. Through Love Beyond the Walls—books written by incarcerated parents for their kids—they help heal bonds and build hope for life beyond prison, rebuilding families with dignity.

New Life Stories

Unique Handbuilt Ceramics

SNAIL Handmade Ceramics is a Singapore-based mom and special needs son ceramist duo creating unique, handbuilt pieces. Each item is crafted slowly and with care, designed to bring calm and comfort to your daily life - quiet companions that invite moments of pause, peace, and joy.

Snail Handmade Ceramics

Empowering Lower-Income Families

The Empowered Families Initiative (EFI) is a breakthrough effort that invests in the plans of lower-income families in Singapore, helping them grow with trust, autonomy, and accountability. Created by social service practitioners, EFI redefines support to uplift families with dignity.

Empowered Families Initiative

Inclusive Apparel & Jewellery

Will & Well is an inclusive fashion label rethinking clothing design to make dressing easier, more comfortable, and dignified for all, especially people with disabilities. By combining design thinking and tech, they create stylish apparel that moves beyond outdated features like buttons and zippers.

Will & Well

🍽️ What’s Cooking: Food & Drinks

Specialty Coffee & All Day Brunch

Recharge at Bettr Coffee, a social enterprise serving up quality coffee with purpose. Enjoy expertly brewed espresso-based drinks alongside an all-day brunch menu packed with hearty favourites and wholesome treats. Whether you're here for a quick cuppa or a leisurely bite, it's the perfect spot to unwind and soak in the good vibes.

Bettr Coffee

Bakes & Sweet Treats for a Second Chance

Hawker Boys empowers ex-offenders through hawker culture, training them in real kitchens for a fresh start. Try their meaningful bakes like Red Ondeh Muffins, Mee Pok Muffins, Reform Banana Bread, and Milo Dinosaur Cookies - local flavours reimagined, crafted by hands rebuilding their future.

Hawker Boys

Homemade Cookies & Brownies

The Cookie Nurse is by Kat, a nurse by day and passionate home baker by night. Using halal ingredients, she creates cookies and brownies full of love and quality—perfect for sharing, gifting, or simply enjoying a well-deserved treat. Sweet moments, baked with care.

The Cookie Nurse

Kombucha made from Coffee Grounds

Mindful Drinks upcycles spent coffee grounds into kombucha and sodas that are good for you and the planet. With zero sugar, these beverages are rich in prebiotics, probiotics, antioxidants, and polyphenols, helping ease digestion and bloating while supporting gut health and mental wellness. It’s a delicious, sustainable way feel your best every day.

Mindful Drinks

Traditional Nonya Kueh

Kueh Ho Jiak began as a humble kampung kueh stall and is now a beloved homegrown brand, recognized by UNESCO as a heritage hawker. They sell a range of traditional Nonya kueh, uplift women needing fresh starts, and donate part of proceeds to the CritiCare Fund for Migrant Workers.

Kueh Ho Jiak

Old School Popsicles

Popsicle Story is a Muslim-owned business with purpose, run by four friends who love cold desserts. They craft fresh treats daily in unique local flavours like bandung, milo, and durian D24. With ongoing sadaqah charity packages, they’ll also donate 10% of event sales to Muhammadiyah Welfare Home.

Popsicle Story

Getting to The Foundry

11 Prinsep Link, Singapore 187949

MRT Station - Walking distance from Bencoolen MRT (2 min), Bras Basah MRT (6 min), Rochor MRT (8 min) and Dhoby Ghaut MRT (11 min)

Driving? Outdoor parking available along Prinsep St and Indoor parking at Sunshine Plaza

Get directions

Need to Know: FAQs

While Bettr Barista Café accepts credit cards, most of our market vendors will only take cash or PayNow. We recommend bringing a mix of cash and having your PayNow ready for a smooth experience.

No official public WiFi - we recommend using your own mobile data. (On the plus side, fewer distractions and more time to soak up the event!)

Definitely. We encourage BYO bags and cups, many vendors use compostable packaging, and we have recycling points on-site. Supporting local social enterprises also means you’re helping reduce carbon footprints.

There’s no ATM inside the venue, but several are a short walk away. We’ll include a map in your confirmation email with nearby facilities.

Absolutely! We’d love for you to capture and share your favourite moments. Tag us (@thesocialspace.sg and @foundrysg) and the small vendors you support - it means the world to them and helps spread the word. We’d love to see all the wonderful finds through your eyes.

Yes! Bettr Coffee Café offers vegetarian, vegan, and some gluten-free options. Just look out for the signs or feel free to ask the friendly vendors - they’ll be happy to help.

It’s super accessible by both bus and MRT.

  • 106, 131, 166, 175, 502, 857. Nearest stops: Middle Rd - Sunshine Plaza (07571) and Bencoolen St - Bef Bencoolen Stn Exit A (04029).
  • Bencoolen MRT (DT12) is just 2 mins away, Bras Basah MRT (CC2) is 6 mins, Rochor MRT (DT13) is 8 mins, and Dhoby Ghaut MRT (NS24|NE6|CC1) is an 11 min walk.

    If you’re taking a taxi or private hire, indicate '11 Prinsep Link' and alight at the pick-up point via Prinsep Link.

Yes! Outdoor parking is available along Prinsep Street, just a minute’s walk from the venue. You can also park at Sunshine Plaza (91 Bencoolen Street, Singapore 189652), which is also about a minute away.

Great question! Many of the social enterprises will have info on how you can volunteer, donate, or support them long-term. Stop by their booths to learn more.

Yes, walk-ins are very welcome! But as it’s an old heritage building, there’s a maximum capacity, so we’ll have to limit entry once it’s full. To skip the line and secure your spot, we recommend getting The Good Pass at $6, which includes a free drink, a Bettr Tumblr (worth $28.90 ), plus exclusive promos and giveaways with our neighbours in the ‘hood.

Do note that entrance will be prioritised for pass holders.

No worries - the event is fully indoors, so it’ll go on rain or shine. Just come by and stay cozy while you explore, shop, and enjoy the day!

We’d love that! Drop us a message beforehand so we can share press kits, highlight stories, or even arrange a special peek behind the scenes.

Feel free to reach out to us at hello@thesocialspace.co. anytime. We’re happy to help and would love to hear from you!

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