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Volunteering Ballarat exists to:

  1. Advocate for and on behalf of volunteering in Ballarat and surrounding districts;
  2. Create and identify opportunities for individuals, companies and organisations to participate in our community as volunteers;
  3. Build the capacity of community organisations around volunteerin

The Ballarat Community Fund:

  1. Raises money from sponsorship, individual donations and payroll giving.
  2. Distribute that money back to the community via grants for community groups working to meet needs across the Health, Education and Income focus areas.

United Way Ballarat is a member of the Global United Way Movement. A network of 4000 Grass roots organisations across 46 countries who collectively raise and distribute more than $6 billion dollars every Year back into their local communities.

United Way Ballarat was founded by local citizens in 1983 as the Ballarat and Districts Community Fund to raise and distribute resources back to the community in the areas identified as most in need. In that time United Way has distributed more than $3 million dollars to local community groups and agencies working to meet the needs of our community.

United Way Ballarat incorporates Volunteering Ballarat and the Ballarat Community Fund as the peak body for volunteering activity in the local area and the lead agency for Corporate Social Responsibility including workplace giving.

Today United Way Ballarat is working to advance the common good of our community by focusing on Education, Income and Health. These are the building blocks for a good life—a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.

United Way asks all the citizens of Ballarat and surrounding areas to do three things:

            Give – money and goods

            Advocate – on behalf of those who cannot

            Volunteer – to invest time in our community

For more information or to find out how you can join with us in Uniting Ballarat please contact United Way Ballarat on: