Workshops

Is your school, organization or workplace looking to…

Go green?

Turn trash into fertilizer?

Recycle in a fun and easy way?

Our workshops are easy to learn from and customizable to any audience. We’re MOE-accredited with a passion for making learning fun!

 

Topics we cover:

DIY Composting

Suitable for regular household wastes such as newspaper, cardboard, fruit peels and vegetable scraps.

Vermicomposting

Using composting worms to make high-quality fertilizer for horticulture, flowering and fruiting plants.

Bokashi Composting

Airtight method with no risk of smells and flies. Suitable for food waste and small enclosed spaces.

Black Soldier Fly

Using BSF larvae to rapidly reduce large amounts of food waste. They are excellent feed for animals too!

Workshop FAQ

We accept bookings from:

  • Schools / Educational Institutions
  • Corporates
  • Communities (library talks, gardening groups, community centres, private and public housing estates etc)
  • Cafes, restaurants

We currently do not provide workshops for individuals.

We conduct workshops for ages 5 and up.

Our 1-hour workshops are engaging, easy to learn from, and customisable to any audience. They are conducted by our in-house MOE-accredited instructor.

Our 1-hour workshops consist of:

  • Learning segment (using colourful and engaging presentation slides from the instructor’s laptop)
  • Live composting demonstration
  • Quiz and activities with prizes

Our workshops are conducted in English.

On the day of the workshop, you are kindly required to provide:

  • Projector with a HDMI input
  • Projector screen
  • Sound speakers
  • Table (please provide table dimensions)

For a large audience, we also require you to provide:

  • 1 wireless headset microphone (for demonstration)
  • 1 wireless handheld microphone (for quiz)
  • Stage or platform

We will arrive 1 hour before the workshop to set up materials, and test the presentation slides and video from the instructor’s laptop.

Participants can look forward to simple composting activities and quizzes throughout various points of the workshop. They will also win prizes such as seeds for planting, stationery, composting paraphernalia etc.

Our instructor will be bringing her own compost bin and materials to demonstrate setting up a compost bin from scratch. These materials are the instructor’s own and are meant for demonstration purposes only.

You may view examples of this demonstration in our gallery.

There is no cap on the number of participants per workshop. However, we recommend no more than 30 participants for the best learning experience.

Our audience size has ranged from 20 to 300+ people.

It is a fixed one-time fee per workshop. Kindly contact us for our rate.

Please note that we require to receive 50% non-refundable deposit in order to confirm your booking.

Clients may lose their preferred date / time slot to other clients if they fail to make the non-refundable deposit in a timely manner.

We do not accept any change in workshop topic, date, and timing after booking has been confirmed.

Remainder payment to be made in cash or PayNow immediately after the workshop.

We will issue an invoice and receipt for each payment.

We accept the following modes of payment:

  • Cash
  • PayNow (UEN 53190452X)
  • Cheque (Please make payable to Kainosis Sustainability Development Consultancy)
  • Bank Transfer (Maybank Flexibiz Account: 04181060391)
  • E-invoice through vendors@gov

Please note that we do not accept payment by credit card at the moment.

Your booking slot will only be secured after we receive your 50% non-refundable deposit.

To book a workshop, please follow the 3 steps below:

  1. Fill in and submit our online booking form
  2. Await our reply
  3. Make 50% non-refundable deposit within 48 hours of our reply

Please note that clients may lose their preferred date / time slot to other clients if they fail to make the deposit in a timely manner.

We do not accept any change in workshop topic, date, and timing after booking has been confirmed.

Please note that video and audio recordings are not allowed during the workshop. CIS reserves all rights to any video and audio recordings made during the workshop.

CIS reserves the right to photograph and record videos of the workshop for training, review, and documentation purposes. CIS may use the photographs and videos for publicity purposes.

Booking will only be confirmed after CIS receives the 50% non-refundable deposit.

Clients may lose their preferred date / time slot to other clients if they fail to make the deposit in a timely manner.

CIS does not accept any change in workshop topic, date, and timing after booking has been confirmed.

Remainder payment to be made in cash or PayNow immediately after the workshop.

All services provided are non-refundable.

All deposits, payments, and transactions made are non-refundable.

CIS reserves the right to make any appropriate changes on this page, policies, terms and conditions at any time, as deemed necessary.

You have fully read, understood, and are agreeable to all requirements, terms and conditions stated on this page.

Our highly popular Compost Booth livens up any event! Participants can get all their composting questions answered, interact with DIY compost bins, poke around live composting worms, watch Black Soldier Fly larvae rapidly consume food waste, and even win prizes! Find out more.