Leading South Australian not-for-profit organisation, Uniting Communities, is the first in the country to start displaying 5-star ANCAP safety ratings on its entire fleet of owned and operated cars, highlighting its safety commitment to employees, clients and the community. ANCAP Safety is Australasia’s leading independent vehicle safety authority. To achieve the maximum 5-star ANCAP safety…
Despite modest new investment in social service infrastructure, today’s State budget released by Treasurer Lucas appears to be an all too familiar story. Uniting Communities’ Chief Executive, Simon Schrapel said, ‘Understandably the government has focused new expenditure on additional physical infrastructure to stimulate economic activity and productivity. However, productivity and a robust State is more…
Skin is one of the first areas that we notice change with age. As the largest organ in our bodies, skin needs proper protection – not only for your appearance but, more importantly, because it performs so many essential tasks for your body. As the largest organ in the body, skin offers the best protection…
Leading community services organisation, Uniting Communities, has become the first not-for-profit to support South Australia’s first biodiverse carbon offset project. The revenue from the carbon credits purchased by Uniting Communities will go towards permanently protecting and enhancing more than 1,075 hectares of revegetated land, creating critical habitat for internationally important migratory shorebirds and other threatened…
New hospitality tenants at Uniting Communities’ U City building on Franklin Street will dish up a range of delicacies when the 20-storey development opens its doors mid-year. All hospitality and retail spaces on the ground floor of the development are now tenanted, with the announcement that Luigi Delicatessen will move to U City from Flinders…
Uniting Communities welcomes the opportunity to provide comment to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, as a contribution towards the thematic report to the UN General Assembly on digital technology, social protection and human rights. Uniting Communities is a founding member of the Accountable Income Management Network (AIMN), which focuses…
Uniting Communities is pleased to announce its partnership with award-winning South Australian hospitality group, Blanco Horner Hospitality Management (Blanco Horner), to provide catering services in the new U City Function Centre opening in mid-2019. The two leading South Australian organisations – with a history of more than 155 years between them – will join forces…
The task of finding a place in an aged care facility – for yourself or, more commonly, for a loved one – can seem daunting, particularly with negative stories emerging from the current Royal Commission into aged care. Generally, people start considering residential aged care when independent living becomes too difficult. This often comes after…
Many of Uniting Communities’ clients are people for whom maintaining their wellbeing and a decent standard of living is a daily challenge as they are reliant on receiving social security payments, which are too low and do not enable them to live a decent life. Our organisation supports this Bill and its objectives of ensuring…
Uniting Communities has made a submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs – Community Affairs Referencing Committee regarding the government’s ParentsNext program. This submission provides responses to a number of the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference, with an emphasis on the disadvantaging effects that the ParentsNext program has on children and their parents, with…
