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Big Issue In Australia Limited

CharityRegistryPBISocial EnterpriseABN 61071598439VIC
Relationships
16
Data Sources
1
Revenue
$5.1M
Contract Value
$17K
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Data as of: 9 May 2026
Found in 2 systemsProcurementACNC Charities

About

Big Issue In Australia Limited is a large registered charity based in Melbourne, VIC. Its purposes include social welfare. It serves: adults, aged, children, females, financially disadvantaged, males, homelessness risk, disability, youth.

Top Contracts (2)

Big Idea Registration
Central Queensland University · Mar 2019
$17K
Big Idea Registration
Central Queensland University · Mar 2019
$17K

Social Enterprise

Sells magazines and newspapers through street vendors experiencing homelessness or financial disadvantage, generating income for vendors while addressing social welfare

Services
employmentcommunity-developmenthomelessness
Source: acnc-classified

Financial History (7 years)

YearRevenueExpensesAssetsSurplus
2023$5.1M$6.3M$3.8M$-1,008,679
2022$4.7M$6.4M$6.0M$-1,675,399
2021$6.8M$6.2M$6.6M$637K
2020$7.2M$6.2M$6.1M$1.0M
2019$5.7M$5.4M$5.3M$390K
2018$5.6M$5.3M$5.0M$295K
2017$5.8M$5.5M$4.5M$351K
Govt Revenue
$2.0M
0
Staff (FTE)
38.9
Volunteers
20
Donations Received
$298K

Community Evidence

External Evidence

Identity

GS ID
AU-ABN-61071598439
ABN
61071598439
Sector
Social Welfare
Financial Year
2023

Focus Areas

Purposes
Social Welfare
Beneficiaries
AdultsAgedChildrenFemalesFinancially DisadvantagedMalesHomelessness RiskDisabilityYouth

Board & Leadership (4)

  • Vanessa Beggs
    chair
  • Paul Kearney
    director
  • Steven Munchenberg
    director
  • Wendy Fromhold
    secretary

Financials

Revenue
$5.1M
Assets
$3.8M

Method

Match Confidence
registry
Cross-references
1 dataset
Match Key
ABN
Relationships
16

Matched by Australian Business Number (ABN) — high confidence. This entity was found across multiple government datasets using the same ABN.

Data Sources

ACNC

JusticeHub

External Link

This entity is also tracked in JusticeHub with 0 interventions and 0 evidence records.

External ecosystem profile linked from GrantScope for additional context. JusticeHub content is maintained separately.

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Location Intelligence

Postcode
3000
Locality
MELBOURNE
Remoteness
Major Cities of Australia
SEIFA Disadvantage
Decile 4/10
LGA
Melbourne
Entities in Area
5,213
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Disability Market Context

NDIS Layer
State Providers
2,945
Thin Districts
1
Very Thin
0
Local Alternatives
3
35 community-controlled orgs in postcode

This organisation shows disability-related delivery signals. The strategic question is whether it sits inside a resilient market, a thin market, or a captured market where large providers take most of the money and local alternatives are scarce.

Thinnest Districts In VIC
Mallee95 providers
Outer Gippsland145 providers
Western District162 providers
Captured Markets
Mallee88%
Western District87%
Outer Gippsland83%
Ovens Murray75%