SA/NT 2025 Region Conference Venue + Accommodation

U City’s Function Centre is one of Adelaide’s newest event spaces and is the new home of high quality functions, conferences and catering in the heart of the city. Basking in natural light and conveniently located in the heart of Adelaide, U City’s Function Centre offers adaptable spaces and award-winning catering to ensure our conference is a success.

Uniting Communities is a not-for-profit community services organisation that exists to serve the people of South Australia. In developing U City, they are committed to creating a vibrant, integrated community that delivers much needed local community facilities and services. Located in the heart of Adelaide, the $100 million, 20-storey U City building officially opened in August 2019.

Uniting Communities’ U City is a truly unique, diverse and inclusive community, home to: Retirement Residences; Specialist Disability Accommodation; Accessible Serviced Apartments; Function Centre; Uniting Communities’ Social Services Hub; Commercial and retail spaces.

 

'GREEN' FUNCTION CENTRE + AWARD-WINNING CATERING

Choosing to host our event at U City not only supports the ongoing work of Uniting Communities within South Australia, it also contributes to their ongoing commitment of being a certified carbon neutral organisation. Here are some of the ways the function centre is doing its part to reduce carbon emissions:

  • U City is recognised as one of Australia’s ‘greenest’ buildings by design to date. It is predicted to use 45 per cent less energy and 30 per cent less water than a comparable new and is partly powered by solar panels on the roof.
  • The award-winning caterers Blanco Catering not only use local food that is sustainably sourced, but they donate left over food to organisations such as the Hutt St Centre.
  • By sourcing all of the produce locally they are able to support small batch suppliers within South Australia and limit the amount of food miles travelled.
  • Blanco Catering also practices a minimal food waste policy across all of their venues and menu
  • All waste is disposed of responsibly – food waste and coffee grinds are disposed of in a separate “organics” bin which goes to Jeffries composting facility.
  • Milk cartons and non-refundable bottles are disposed of in the dry waste and all refundable bottles and cans are donated to Scouts SA.
  • All dry waste at U City goes to a resource recovery facility and is turned into an alternative fuel source. This is used by Adelaide Brighton Cement, directly replacing fossil fuels.
  • They don’t use any disposable cutlery or crockery and, to minimise the use of water, limit use of linen within the function centre
  • Toilets are low water consumption and all hand towels are composted

All of these initiatives play their part in helping the environment and reducing U City’s carbon footprint. 

GETTING THERE

Entrance to the Function Centre is through the main glass doors on Franklin Street, north side of the building, or from Pitt Street or Penaluna Lane glass doors. Enter the building and either take the stairs or lift to level 1. Accessible entry to U City Function Centre is from Franklin Street (automatic doors). The elevator to level 1 is located adjacent to the grand stairway.

PARKING

U City has a limited number of accessible car spaces in the basement. Bookings are essential and fees apply. Accessible and general parking can also be found at the following locations:

Thanks to our partners and sponsors for their support