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The Uplift UK Network

Own your area.
Build your community.
Be part of something bigger than yourself.

Across the UK, we're building a network of people, businesses and communities determined to create practical change where they live.

We're looking for leaders who know their area, believe they can bring people together and want to build something that lasts.

Claim your area

99 areas. One national movement.

Available· master partner opportunity availableBuilding· applications and the local network are being builtActive· county master partner appointedLeading· a high-performing uplift community

This is your area

Someone is going to lead your area.
Why shouldn't it be you?

You don't need to solve every problem yourself.
You need to bring the right people together.

Uplift Me provides the platform, national infrastructure, technology, brand and support. You bring the local relationships, energy and ambition.

Together, we build a network capable of making change happen every day.

Tap any area on the map

See its status, its Master Partner and the live opportunity to lead it. 99 areas. One national movement.

Own your area.

Not for yourself. For everyone in it.

Build the local network.
Bring businesses together.
Find products that would otherwise go to waste.
Connect volunteers.
Raise funds.
Support families.
Create partnerships.
Challenge other counties.

And show the rest of the country what your community can achieve.

Someone is going to lead your area. Why shouldn't it be you?

The Master Partner role

Not a volunteer. Not an ambassador.
The local leader of a national network.

A Master Partner helps develop and manage the Uplift network within their territory. You bring the relationships, the local knowledge and the drive. We bring everything else.

What you lead

Build local business relationships
Recruit local partners
Grow the local Uplift network
Manage opportunities in your county
Support product collection and redistribution
Support marketplace activity
Help identify local need
Coordinate appropriate local delivery
Build local fundraising
Build local volunteering
Participate in the national Uplift League
Receive qualifying commercial opportunities generated nationally

What Uplift Me provides

National brand
Foundation infrastructure
Technology
Marketplace
Payment infrastructure
Partner systems
Product management
Reporting
Impact measurement
National marketing
National campaigns
Central administration
Data systems
Customer journeys
National corporate relationships
National contract opportunities

You use Uplift Me infrastructure instead of needing to build your own systems.

Someone is going to lead your area. Why shouldn't it be you?

Apply to lead your area

National contracts. Local opportunity.

When we win nationally, you win locally.

When Uplift Me wins a national relationship or national contract, qualifying work is routed into the appropriate local territory, where the County Master Partner carries it out.

The kinds of organisations we work with:

National care-home groups
Hotel groups
Restaurant chains
Pub groups
Retail chains
Manufacturers
Property groups
Logistics organisations
National facilities businesses
Multi-site brands

These organisations regularly have furniture, beds, appliances, equipment, surplus stock, returned or discontinued products, fixtures and other practical goods, alongside community-support requirements. All of it can enter the Uplift Me ecosystem.

A real-world example

A national hotel group replaces furniture at 40 sites. Uplift Me secures the national relationship, then each site is matched by postcode and offered to the relevant local Master Partner. One national door, opened locally 40 times.

"You build the local relationships. Uplift Me opens national doors."

We build one relationship at national level, then distribute the right work and opportunities across the local network. It's a major reason to join the network rather than operating alone.

How a national contract reaches your county

1
Uplift Me wins a national contract
2
Hotel or site location identified
3
Inventory list identified
4
Postcode and territory matched
5
Local Master Partner notified
6
Master Partner accepts the qualifying work
7
Master Partner carries out the local clearance or collection
8
Products are assessed
9
Items are sold, donated or allocated to verified need
10
Commercial revenue and impact are recorded

How work is allocated

Master Partners are the preferred local delivery partner for qualifying work within their territory, subject to service standards, capacity and the relevant contract.

How the proceeds work

Master Partners receive 80% of the proceeds from qualifying products sold through their territory. The full breakdown is shown below.

How the proceeds work

Master Partners receive 80% of the proceeds from qualifying products sold through their territory. Uplift Me retains 20% as a processing and administration fee for providing and operating the platform, infrastructure and supporting systems.

80%

Goes to the Master Partner

Your share of the proceeds from qualifying products sold within your territory.

20%

Retained by Uplift Me

Processing & administration fee for providing and operating the platform, infrastructure and supporting systems.

80% Master Partner20% Uplift Me

The default split is 80/20 of net proceeds and may be varied by the applicable agreement for specific contracts or territories.

Put your county forward

The bigger picture

Think global.
Start right in front of you.

Our ambition is global. But meaningful change always starts locally.

One person.

One family.

One street.

One community.

Help the family in front of you. Strengthen the community around you. Connect those communities across the country. And together, build something capable of reaching the world.

Your areaThe people directly in front of you

Your countyOne network around your community

The UK92 county networks, connected as one

The worldA global Uplift network, built to reach it

Every global movement begins somewhere.

Uplift Me begins with the people and communities directly in front of us.

Charity starts close to home.
Impact doesn't have to end there.

Volunteers delivering new children's beds, a cot and baby equipment to a family home

The leadership opportunity

Build it where you live.

Uplift Me provides the infrastructure and support you need: the national platform, technology, marketplace and systems. Our local leaders bring the relationships, knowledge and energy that make change happen.

Your area. Your community. Your impact.

Lead my area Find my area

Be part of something bigger than yourself.

The long-term structure

Uplift Me UK92 county networksLocal communitiesLocal partnersChildren and families

Local leadership. National infrastructure. Global ambition.

What you are building

You are building your area's Uplift network.

Not a volunteer rota. A network of businesses, products, people, fundraising, community and measurable impact. Six things, built together, that change a county.

Businesses

Build a network of companies that want to contribute.

Products

Turn unwanted products into useful resources.

People

Bring together volunteers and community leaders.

Fundraising

Mobilise your area behind meaningful campaigns.

Community

Connect the people who can help with those who need it.

Impact

Measure what your community actually achieves.

Why become a Master Partner?

Do more good.
Without having to build everything yourself.

Creating meaningful community impact takes more than goodwill.

It takes:

Technology
Administration
Payments
A marketplace
Reporting
Marketing
Systems
Compliance
Data
And people

Uplift Me is building that infrastructure nationally, so our local Master Partners don't have to build it all again.

Lead my area

Why build it all yourself?

Why build it all again?

Without Uplift Me

A local organisation may need to:

Build a website
Build an online marketplace
Pay developers
Create payment systems
Create product databases
Employ administration staff
Manage listings
Manage orders
Track donations
Manage customer enquiries
Produce impact reports
Manage partner records
Build fundraising systems
Create marketing campaigns
Manage volunteers
Create reporting systems
Manage technology

With Uplift Me

One connected platform.

Shared national infrastructure means more local time, money and resources can be focused on creating impact.

Technology, marketplace, payments, listings, administration and reporting: already built, already running.

A foundation behind you

Build locally.
Operate as part of something bigger.

Rather than creating a new organisation and infrastructure from scratch, approved Master Partners become part of the wider Uplift Me network.

You gain access to shared technology, national systems, standards, support and a common mission, while bringing the relationships and knowledge that only local people can provide.

Uplift it. List it. Move it.

Turn unwanted products into useful resources.

One of the biggest challenges with furniture, household goods and other reusable products isn't finding them.

It's what happens next.

Storage
Listings
Customers
Payments
Collections
Deliveries
Administration

Uplift Me is building one national marketplace where appropriate products can be:

Donated
Sold
Redistributed
Allocated to community need

This means every area doesn't need to build its own resale operation.

One marketplace.
Thousands of products. Local impact.

See the marketplace

Let Uplift Me handle the admin

Spend less time administering.
More time uplifting.

Our objective is to centralise as much of the operational burden as reasonably possible.

Product listings
Orders
Payments
Customer records
Donation records
Partner onboarding
Marketplace administration
Area reporting
Impact reporting
National competitions
Leaderboard calculations
Marketing tools
Volunteer records
Campaign management
Support requests
Transaction records
Data
Communications

You shouldn't need another office full of people to create local impact.

Three different product routes

Not every product is treated the same way.

This is a critical legal and accounting distinction. Every product entering the Uplift Me network has one clearly recorded transaction type.

Route 1: Donate

Donate it.

A person or business donates goods to the appropriate Uplift Me charitable entity. Once legally donated and accepted, ownership transfers to that entity. Uplift Me may then, where appropriate: provide the item directly to someone who needs it, redistribute it through community partners, or sell it to generate funds that support the Foundation's charitable objectives.

Potential business benefit: where qualifying goods are donated to Uplift Me, your business may be able to claim relevant tax relief under current UK rules.

Tax treatment depends on the type of goods, the transaction and the circumstances of the business. Uplift Me does not provide tax advice. Businesses should confirm their position with their accountant or tax adviser. Once an item has been donated, Uplift Me never promises that sale proceeds will be returned to the donor. A donation remains legally and financially separate from any commercial payment to that partner.

Route 2: Sell

Sell it.

A partner sells goods through the Uplift Me marketplace as a commercial transaction. Ownership stays with the seller until the sale completes, and any proceeds are the seller's commercial revenue. Sales are recorded as trading, never as donations.

Commercial opportunity

Partners can use the Uplift Me Marketplace to sell suitable goods to a wider audience, recover value from surplus or excess stock, and create an additional route to market while supporting the wider Uplift Me ecosystem.

How it works

The seller remains the owner of the goods until the transaction is completed. The seller sets or approves the commercial terms, and proceeds remain commercial revenue to the seller. Marketplace sales are recorded clearly as trading activity and remain separate from charitable donations and direct allocations.

Built for transparency

Commercial sales, donated goods and community allocations are tracked separately so businesses have a clear record of how each item has been used.

Route 3: Allocate

Allocate it.

Goods are matched to verified community need and provided directly to the people who need them through the Uplift Me support programme. Allocations are recorded clearly, so support reaches the right households without blurring giving and trading.

Potential business benefit: where qualifying goods are donated to Uplift Me and allocated directly to verified community need, your business may be able to claim relevant tax relief, depending on the goods, the transaction and the circumstances of the business.

Uplift Me does not provide tax advice. Tax treatment depends on the type of goods, the transaction and the circumstances of the business. Businesses should confirm the appropriate treatment with their accountant or tax adviser. Tax relief is never guaranteed.

Donations stay donations.
Sales stay sales. Allocations stay allocations.

Lead my area

The challenge

How far could your area go?

Every approved donation, partner, product, volunteer activity and successful outcome can contribute to your county's Uplift Impact Score.

Your community competes.
The whole country wins.

View the county league

The Uplift County LeagueDemo. Live scores begin with the first counties

Sample styling shown. No live scores are displayed until genuine, verified data exists. Every county starts on zero.

The recruitment moment

Your area is waiting.

We're looking for people and organisations capable of bringing their communities together.

You could be an entrepreneur. A local business owner. A community leader. A professional. A charity leader. A connector. Or simply someone who believes your area could do more.

What matters is your ability to bring people together and make things happen.

Apply to lead your area Join my community

Not ready to lead? Join your local Uplift network instead.

County Control Centre

Platform preview

Commercial revenue

£4,280

Marketplace revenue

£1,145

Money raised

£2,390

Goods donated

Goods sold

Goods allocated

Families supported

Children supported

Items rehomed

Active local partners

Volunteers

County rank

Progress to target

68%

Contract opportunities

Active jobs

Recent activity

Hotel clearance completed£1,120 recorded · 2 days ago
New partner joined your networkGreenside Storage · 5 days ago

Example dashboard shown for illustration. Your live County Control Centre tracks real activity from day one.

This is the system you receive access to as a County Master Partner.

Bedfordshire

England

Own your area.Build your community.Be part of something bigger than yourself.

Someone is going to lead your area.Why shouldn't it be you?

Own your area.

Not a volunteer. Not an ambassador.The local leader of a national network.

When we win nationally, you win locally.

Think global.Start right in front of you.

Build it where you live.

You are building your area's Uplift network.

Businesses

Products

People

Fundraising

Community

Impact

Do more good.Without having to build everything yourself.

Why build it all again?

One connected platform.

Build locally.Operate as part of something bigger.

Turn unwanted products into useful resources.

Spend less time administering.More time uplifting.

Not every product is treated the same way.

Donate it.

Sell it.

Allocate it.

How far could your area go?

Your area is waiting.

How will you uplift your county?

Donate products

Donate money

Become a business partner

Volunteer

Become a Master Partner

Request support

Own your area.
Build your community.
Be part of something bigger than yourself.

Someone is going to lead your area.
Why shouldn't it be you?

Not a volunteer. Not an ambassador.
The local leader of a national network.

Think global.
Start right in front of you.

Do more good.
Without having to build everything yourself.

Build locally.
Operate as part of something bigger.

Spend less time administering.
More time uplifting.