Proposals · Part III · The Culinary Seed Bank

The Graduate Landing Package

Every graduate gets a stall, 24 months of discounted rent, financed equipment, an income floor and mentoring, at about $20,000 per graduate.

PHILANTHROPY-FUNDED · ≈$20,000 PER GRADUATE
BUILDS ON · INCUBATION STALL PROGRAMME

The stall comes through ballot priority or a Heritage Anchor placement, at band rent minus a 30% heritage subsidy for the first 24 months. Equipment is financed lease-to-own up to $25,000 through a partner financier, with the Seed Bank guaranteeing 50% first loss. Monthly net income is topped up to $2,800 in months 1–24, capped at $1,000 a month, alongside a monthly Master Fellow clinic and 12 free Relief-Corps days in the first two years. It answers the HDP record of 566 trained, 120 through apprenticeship and only a handful still at the wok.

Who pays

PHILANTHROPY-FUNDED · BUILDS ON

What it costs

roughly $20,000 SGD · per graduate

Expected cost is roughly $20,000 per graduate – a fraction of the training cost already spent, which it protects

Budget lines from the ledgers
Year	Line	Amount	Section
Yr 2	Graduate Landing Packages – 10 × ≈$20,000	$200,000	the Budget Book, B.4
Yr 3	Graduate Landing Packages – 16 × ≈$20,000	$320,000	the Budget Book, B.5

What it builds on

Incubation Stall Programme: pre-fitted stalls at subsidised rent for 15 months (§1.3, §3.4).

Who gains

Diners: The young cook who trained under your favourite auntie doesn't vanish after graduation: she's two stalls down, same rempah, same standard (§3.4).
Hawkers: A real stall by ballot, financed equipment, a 24-month income floor, and a mentor two stalls down (§1.4).

Where the library discusses it

§3.4 · §the-plan · §1.2 · §1.3 · the Budget Book, B.4 · the Budget Book, B.5