Awards
The agency's first award was achieved in 1981 with the Uniting Church Outreach Centre Committee winning the 3BA-Ballarat Courier Community Service Award for their work in the community.
Since then the agency has won multiple awards and been a finalist in several others:
Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Business
(BreezeWay - Meals for Homeless People) - 2000
Judges Award for the inaugural national EQT CEO Awards
(Cliff Barclay) - 2002
Runner Up Innovation Awards
- 2002
Ballarat Health Award
- Best New Iniative (Tabor House) - 2003
Runner Up Prime Television Community Event Award
(The Courier Ballarat Home Show) - 2006
Winner of ABC Regional Award for Most Valued Volunteering Organisation in Rural/Regional Victoria
- Ballarat & State - May 2009
Winner of 2009 CGU Commerce Ballarat Not-For-Profit Business Excellence Award
- August 2009
Finalist in the Victorian Premier's Community Volunteering Awards
- December 2009
United Way 2010 Volunteer Recognition Awards:
Winner Community Group Award, Winner Corporate Group Award (partnership with St. John of God Hospital) and Winner Individual Award - Volunteer of the Year - Kath Sanders (long-time volunteer with UCB Aged & disAbility Services) - May 2010
Finalist in the Victorian Education Excellence Awards for Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher
- Joan Kimberley, Early Childhood Teacher/Director of Waubra Pre-School (UCB's Kindergarten Cluster) - May 2010
United Way 2011 Volunteer Recognition Awards:
Winner Community Care Individual Award - Helen Vallance (volunteer at UCB since 1971) and Winner Community Organisation Award - Lifeline Ballarat
Winner 2012 IPAA Victoria’s Leadership in the Public Sector Awards:
Innovation in Service Delivery Award - Karrung Foyer
Finalist in the bankmecu Not-For-Profit Award - CGU Commerce Ballarat Business Excellence Awards
- Agency 2012
Winner Victorian Not for Profit Manager of the Year at the Australian Institute Management Excellence Awards - Cliff Barclay 2014