Melbourne Social Club Events with Fun, Food and Friendship

Who is Fun, Food and Friendship?
Fun, Food & Friendship is a Melbourne owned and operated social enterprise that organises a wide range of Melbourne events to help people in Melbourne enjoy greater life satisfaction. We support the Melbourne community in general with our award winning Melbourne Social Club that works in a not for profit manner. The Melbourne Social Club has run thousands of Melbourne events, offered great city discounts, created great friendships in Melbourne and raised thousands of dollars for charity.

The main aims of our Melbourne social enterprise is to:

Provide a award winning Melbourne Social Club that has a wide range of interesting Melbourne social events, activities and discounts.
Enrich the social lives of other Melburnians by bringing people together to socialise around Melbourne and enjoy social events and activities. The Melbourne social club has helped forge many long term friendships in Melbourne including several marriages.
Make Melbourne social by helping our members meet new people and make new friends in Melbourne and reduce social isolation within the community. We have also received a commendation from the City of Melbourne for our dedicated contribution to Melbourne and its people for making Melbourne social for over a decade.
Provide great service to our members. We are very highly ranked in Google and Facebook reviews with over 2,550 fans. We have qualified for service awards from Word of Mouth Online (WOMO) to be in the TOP 5% of companies based entirely on customer feedback for four years in a row and rated 4.8 stars out of 5 stars.
Supporting our members with membership loyalty discounts by to 50%, gifting free membership months to cover time spent in lockdown as well as membership discounts to encourage coronavirus vaccinations and regular weekly communication via e-newsletters.
Provide a wide range of city discount benefits to enhance the experience of living in Melbourne with discounts at a wide range of venues such as bars, restaurants, shopping, cinema and car parking in Melbourne.
Encourage people to become aware and involved in various community, sports and social events in Melbourne such as the Christmas Day Picnic that has been running over 10 years and is open to everyone. On Christmas Day 2017, 2018 and 2019 over 100 people attended this free social community festive event in Melbourne shared with the Newcomers Network. Unfortunately in 2020/2021, we were unable to run this event due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Provide insurance for our hosts against liability structuring the club within a public limited company with public liability insurance.

Support charitable causes through charity donations. We have raised thousands of dollars for charity over the last 15 years. In 2020, we donated to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal and supported our city in mourning over the Bourke Street car attack by donating to the victims in the attack.
Help charitable associations though events, event sponsors and donations. We have helped may charitable associations such as Cancer Reseacrh, Surf Life Saving Club, Spinal Cord Society, POP (Perspective on Parkinsons), Stralight Foundation, Salvation Army, St Johns Ambulance, Plan International and others.
Encourage companies to participate in our Melbourne Social Club by promoting it to staff or clients who are new to Melbourne - or on an assignment here - to help establish a new social life in Melbourne.
Provide companies and individuals access to the great events within our corporate membership scheme and provide a lifestyle service that will compliment and add value to their existing company culture including corporate events for companies.

What other names are associated with Fun, Food and Friendship?

Fun, Food and Friendship took over YOUNGS Promotions which was Melbourne’s longest running private social club. YOUNGS Promotions was a similar style club to the Fun, Food and Friendship Group which gave people the opportunity to socialise in Melbourne. The YOUNGS 'hallmark' social events were more formal functions, like cocktail parties and other events for singles. Their singles events in Melbourne were renowned for their atmosphere, elegance, level of distinction and sophistication. Existing YOUNGS Promotions members and guests merged into the Melbourne Social Club and their original website is located at www.youngs-promotions.com.au.

Melbourne Social Club is the registered business name of the award winning social club run by Fun, Food and Friendship for the people of Melbourne. In 2006, a new Fun, Food and Friendship group was formed as a social enterprise to provide many social Melbourne events and benefits for social club members as well as run corporate events. The Melbourne Social Club is also known as the Fun, Food and Friendship Social Club.