Community & Sponsorship
As an organisation owned by our members, any profits generated by UFS are invested back into the business for the benefit of our members, our customers and the community. This means that we invest money back into the local communities that we operate businesses in, by supporting a range of organisations and causes, providing considerable donations and in-kind support to local groups and organisations each year!
Strong community partnerships are important to UFS, so if you represent a not-for-profit community organisation, we welcome your approach for support of your event or cause.
UFS Community Donations and Sponsorship Guidelines can be downloaded here.
The UFS Sponsorship application form can be downloaded here.
As well as directly supporting organisations through our sponsorship and donations program, we support many other charitable causes in our stores. We are happy to certify documents as a service to the community, and ask that in return a gold coin donation is made to the collection tins in our stores for various organisations, which includes:
Cancer Council, Lifeline, Support Australian Farmers Buy a Bale campaign, Royal Children’s Hospital, Bush Fund, Starlight Foundation, Apex Guide Dogs, Ballarat Soup Bus, World’s Greatest Shave, Ballarat Cancer Centre, Ovarian cancer research, Australian Himalayan Foundation, Diabetes Victoria, Maxigesic tokens for prostate cancer, Starlight, Leukemia Foundation and CFA.
Royal South Street Society is Australia’s foremost Eisteddfod, promoting, fostering and encouraging participation and interest in the performing arts. UFS has sponsored the Royal South Street Society every year for over 25 years. UFS members receive discounted tickets to RSSS performances.
Share the Dignity is an organisation working to end period poverty in Australia. They work to ease the burden of having a period for women living below the poverty line, by collecting sanitary products and bringing them to those in need.
Each March and August we display our Dignity Drive boxes in our stores where people can place donations. We’ve collected for Share the Dignity for several years now and love bringing this important issue to the forefront.