Local housing service, Kurlana Tampawardli, will open its doors to the community on Wednesday 14 August for its annual Yarning Circle Open Day. Held as part of the service’s Homelessness Week events, the Open Day will include a visit from Port Power Football Club players, as well as traditional kangaroo tail and damper cooked over…
Ruby’s Therapeutic Youth Service will host the Pride in Your Stride community walk on Friday 9 August, marching through the streets of Mt Gambier and taking donations of shoes to raise awareness of homelessness and lack of affordable housing. The walk will be held during this year’s Homelessness Week, where the theme is ‘Housing Ends…
What makes a community? Or better yet, what makes a strong community where people of all ages and abilities can flourish and live the best lives that they can? Those were the questions our organisation – Uniting Communities – challenged ourselves with several years ago, when we pondered how to do more with the inner-city…
Australia’s most innovative mixed-use development celebrates genuine and tangible community inclusion In the making for the past three years, Australia’s most innovative mixed-use development – U City – is about to officially open its doors in the heart of the Adelaide CBD tomorrow, Tuesday, August 6. The $100 million development has literally broken new ground…
The innovative Family by Family program is this year’s recipient of the coveted Good Design Award for Social Impact – the highest honour for design and innovation in Australia. Family by Family brings together families who have been through challenging times (‘Sharing Families’) with those who are struggling (‘Seeking Families’), to build connections, break down…
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…
