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SUKA (Singapore UK Association) is a non-profit and non-political organisation which aims to bring together Singaporean families, professionals and students to develop friendships and celebrate Singapore’s multicultural events here in the UK.
We also welcome everyone from different nationalities and cultural backgrounds to join us.
SUKA was formed by a pioneer group of eight Singaporeans in 1988 with an initial of 60-70 members who had been living in UK for several years and were missing their beloved country of origin and the contact with fellow Singaporeans. The patron of SUKA is The High Commissioner for the Republic of Singapore.
Now, we have more than 400 members from various nationalities and cultural backgrounds. As of today, about 40% of our memberships are non-Singaporeans. In line with Singapore Global Network’s motto, SUKA is continuing to fly the Singapore flag high in the UK, being international, outward looking and inclusive.
SUKA is aimed primarily for overseas Singaporean families and friends with an interest in Singapore to interact, develop friendships and to continue to support and celebrate Singapore’s multicultural events.
The nature of SUKA activities revolves around organising social and cultural events like Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Easter, Singapore National Day, Deepavali and Christmas. SUKA also organises informal networking events, informal meals together and group trips.
The SUKA Executive Committee are a board of members who are volunteers elected by the SUKA members at the annual SUKA AGM to run the organisation. Find out about our committee members past and present.
SUKA holds the following personal information about our members:
Name;
Physical Address;
Contact Number;
Nationality (if provided);
Email Address (if available);
Place of study (for students);
Year of completion of study (for students).
Your personal information will never be passed to third parties without your consent unless we are required to do so by law.
SUKA will hold your personal information if you have applied to join SUKA or have applied to be included in our Keep In Touch database. Your personal data information will have been copied from your application form or from any other medium provided by you and inserted into our Membership Database and/or Keep In Touch Database. This is the lawful basis for SUKA to hold and process your personal data.
If you are on our database we will continue to send you occasional emails with our newsletter, announcements, information on events and meetings. If you would like to stop receiving emails from SUKA, please contact SUKA’s Secretary (ilikesuka@gmail.com). Where appropriate, we may provide information (e.g., name, email address and profession) to third parties (e.g. government agencies) for funding purposes. Members will receive their membership cards in the post based on address held on our database. When a member resigns from SUKA his/her personal data will be removed from SUKA’s database as soon as possible but within one month at the latest. However, the ex-member may opt to remain on our database in order to stay in touch.
If you would like to know what personal data we hold on you please contact SUKA’s Membership Secretary (ilikesuka@gmail.com) and we will inform you of the personal data that we hold on you as soon as possible, but at the latest within one month. The information will be sent to the email address or physical address that we hold for you on our database.
SUKA’s database is kept by an externally hosted service provider. If the database is ever downloaded onto an Executive Committee Member’s or Appointed Adviser’s computer for processing it will be uploaded onto the external server immediately after the processing has taken place and no copy will be retained on the Executive Committee Member’s or Appointed Adviser’s computer. If, in exceptional circumstances, the database, or a copy of the database, needs to be retained on an Executive Committee Member’s or Appointed Adviser’s computer, it will be kept in an encrypted form.
© Singapore UK Association 2024