Donations

Every year some people suggest to us that they would happily pay more for membership to allow us to do more as an organisation, so we’ve introduced a donations option to allow people to support UKU projects or causes.

Our good causes

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee projects

    Thank you for all the generous donations during the initial campaign, which helped us raise £1946 for the DEI committee! These funds have helped secure many logistics for our first project: MESH. Our new target will aim to replenish the committee fund, as well as ensure the MESH project is sustainable and can continue in the long term. 

    MESH (Minority Ethnic Showcase) is a new project that has been established by UK Ultimate and its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee to highlight the talent amongst minority ethnic groups in UK Ultimate. We want to show young athletes from minority ethnic groups that they have a space to achieve amazing things.

    MESH has engaged with players from minority ethnic backgrounds and is looking to provide high quality training sessions which will provide accessible coaching from elite players and leaders, and will create a supportive community for development whilst helping to forge new bonds.

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  • GB Ultimate

    Playing Ultimate for Great Britain is expensive. We have no reason to think this will change in the near future. We guess that most players spend £1.5k-£2.5k a year whilst competing in a GB team (including travel and accommodation at the tournament, but also the cost of training sessions, warm-up tournaments and so on).

    Donations to the GB Programme will go towards building a fund that we use to reduce some costs that players currently have to meet when competing for a GB team.

    Our first goal is to cover the cost of the medical staff that support the teams during competition. We will prioritise support to the most expensive events first, working towards all players having the same medical costs initially, and then hopefully reducing that cost to zero. Over the long-run these costs are approximately £1500 per team, although all costs associated with GB teams can vary greatly, depending on the location of the event.

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  • UKU School Affiliation

    UKU School Affiliation has been running for several years. Schools receive 5 free Discraft discs when they sign-up and buy at least 5 discs. The numbers are really exciting in fact, and have shown us that hundreds of schools play Ultimate, with tens of thousands of young people playing every year in school.

    We have three simple aims:

    - Build up our contact database with schools that want to play Ultimate

    - Gather data on the number of people playing Ultimate in school

    - Put more discs in those schools

    This project is supported by Discraft. However, we’d like the scheme to keep growing and need additional funding to make that happen.

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With all donations we'll do our best to direct them towards the cause specified however should the donations for one cause prove insufficient to make any meaningful impact in that area we'll look to redirect them towards other, similar causes.

How does donating work?

You can choose to donate when making a membership payment or by going straight to one of the donation pages listed above.

If you’re looking to make a donation towards an area not listed, or you’d like to donate towards something specific, please get in touch with us directly by emailing admin@ukultimate.com

Is UK Ultimate a charity?

No. UK Ultimate is a not-for-profit organisation, but we are not a charity, so you cannot gift-aid a donation. Historically we have had very little reason to do the work to become a charity and the professional advice we received on this question was that the additional administrative and regulatory burden would likely offset any financial benefits. It is a question we review from time to time.