Emphasis was placed in the promotion of active participation in sports for the last seven years and the thrust towards sports volunteerism is now one of the advancing initatives for sports for life. Presently,the SSC is formuiating a plan for sports volunteerism for the first time due to the increasing amount of anecdotal evidence suggesting that sports in Singapore is suffering from the increacing lack of volunteers. While strategies for recruitment,training and retention of volunteers are in-place, these have to be reexamined and enhanced to cater to the current needs of sports volunteers in this everchanging societal landscape.