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Dare Disability Support

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ABN 15000692366|Springwood, NSW 2777|facebook.com/BuyAbility
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DARE Industries provides products and services for commercial and domestic customers in the Blue Mountains, Penrith, and Hawkesbury Regions. The Grounds and Maintenance team excel in commercial lawn mowing, turfing and lawn care, hazard reduction, removal of noxious weeds, garden restoration and makeovers, rubbish removal, squalor specialists. Dare Industries provides top quality Australian hardwood products including, wooden stakes and pegs required by Plumbers, Concretors, and Surveyors as well as environmentally friendly kindling in handy 5kg packs of hardwood off-cuts. The Package and Assembly team can assist your business with all your packing and assembly requirements such as, mailouts, assembly of products (from step blocks to wheel barrows), string cutting and tying, bespoke packaging, preparing business folders, labelling, secure document shredding, commercial book covering and packing and weighing. All staff are fully trained, enthusiastic and committed to assisting you and your business. By purchasing any of our business services or products you are helping to provide employment and other services for people with a disability. Since 1961 DARE Industries have provided products and services (such as grounds maintenance, woodwork and packing and assembly) to customers in the community. DARE provides meaningful employment for 65 people with a disability in the community who would otherwise not be able to work. At DARE, supported employees improve their social skills and as a result are able to interact with the community in their day-to-day lives leading to a more inclusive community. DARE also gives back to the community by frequently volunteering at community events such as foundation day and Anzac day. DARE provides meaningful employment for people with a disability who would otherwise not be able to work. Not only does it provide the supported employees with more money in the bank, but it also improves their self-esteem as they are contributing to society. Supported employees experience better health and well being, improve their skills and expand their social networks. DARE has had a number of apprentices who have gone on to join the open work force. Family members of DARE supported employees know that they are well looked after, building new skills, developing a social network and becoming more independent.

Registered Charity

This social enterprise is also a registered charity with the ACNC:

Dare Disability Support
ABN 15000692366

Delivery Evidence

No federal contract history found in AusTender for this ABN. Absence of a record is not absence of delivery — state and local procurement is not fully covered.

Grant Funding

$129Kacross 1 tracked grants (2017-18–2017-18)
9. Supporting Legacy Services — 2017-18 · community_services
$129K

Source: public funding datasets tracked by CivicGraph. Coverage is partial — this is a floor, not a total.

Financial Health

A capacity signal from this charity's latest public ACNC filing — to show where a buyer or funder might offer multi-year or capacity support, not to rank organisations. Not a CivicGraph assessment of the organisation.

Financially resilientACNC AIS · FY2023

Latest ACNC filing shows reserves and a balanced result — well-placed to deliver.

Income FY23
$14.4M
Surplus / deficit
+$880K
Reserves runway
13 mo
Liquidity (current ratio)
3.22
Government-revenue concentrated

Source: ACNC Annual Information Statement, FY2023 · Large charity · 85% of income from government. A point-in-time regulatory snapshot — figures can lag a year and a single filing is not a full picture of an organisation's health. Liquidity is shown only where a balance sheet was filed.

Open Funding Matches

For this enterprise — open grants it could apply for. Not part of buyer due diligence.

Targeted Call for Mental Health Research 2026 — NSW Government · closes 30 June 2026healthregenerativeenterprise
to $1.0M
Gamescom 2026 Market Travel Program — NSW Government · closes 26 June 2026healthregenerativeenterprise
to $5K
Household Problem Waste Education Funding 2026-2027 — NSW Government · closes 29 June 2026healthregenerativeenterprise
to $200K
Aged Care Supported Accommodation Program (ACSAP) – Statewide Provider Grant 2026-2031 — NSW Government · closes 30 June 2026healthregenerativeenterprise
to $1.4M
Government Priority & Partnerships Investment Pathway - FY2025-2026 — NSW Government — Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development · closes 30 June 2026regenerativebusinessemployment training
to $25.0M
National Energy Bill Relief for Small Businesses (2025-26) — NSW Government — Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water · closes 30 June 2026enterprisebusinessenvironment
to $150

Automated match on sector and location against open grants tracked by CivicGraph. Eligibility is not assessed — always check each grant's criteria.

Place Context

LGABlue Mountains
RemotenessMajor Cities of Australia
SEIFA Decile9/10

Verification

certified

BuyAbility (Australian Disability Enterprise)

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Certifications

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Data Sources

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