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Challenge Southern Highlands Inc

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ABN 99536233732|Welby, NSW 2575|facebook.com/BuyAbility
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About

Challenge is an ADE supporting people with disabilities. Activities include Welby garden centre nursery, garden maintenance service, secure document destruction, light manufacturing, letterbox deliveries. Registered as an NDIS Service Provider Challenge supports the community by engaging disadvantaged individuals in employment and training in variety of meaningful activities, including horticultural, garden maintenance, light manufacturing, packing, secure document destruction, and mail box distribution. By having a opportunities of activities employees are able to engage in activities that best suite their skills and abilities. This variety assist the employees to maximise their potential and productivity and creates a genuine job satisfaction for the individuals.

Registered Charity

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

Challenge Southern Highlands LTD
ABN 99536233732

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

$20Kacross 1 tracked grants (2017-18–2017-18)
2. Community Support and Development — 2017-18 · community_services
$20K

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
$8.4M
Surplus / deficit
+$261K
Reserves runway
13 mo
Liquidity (current ratio)
0.80
Current ratio under 1

Source: ACNC Annual Information Statement, FY2023 · Large charity · 55% 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 2026healthenterpriseeducation
to $1.0M
St Vincent's Curran Endowment Grants program — St Vincent's Curran Foundation · closes 5 Aug 2026healtheducationdisability
to $100K
Boosting Business Innovation Program — NSW Government — Premier's Department · closes 30 June 2027enterprisebusinesseducation
to $11.0M
Gamescom 2026 Market Travel Program — NSW Government · closes 26 June 2026healthenterpriseeducation
to $5K
Household Problem Waste Education Funding 2026-2027 — NSW Government · closes 29 June 2026healthenterpriseeducation
to $200K
Aged Care Supported Accommodation Program (ACSAP) – Statewide Provider Grant 2026-2031 — NSW Government · closes 30 June 2026healthenterpriseeducation
to $1.4M

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

Place Context

LGAWingecarribee
RemotenessInner Regional Australia
SEIFA Decile7/10

Verification

certified

BuyAbility (Australian Disability Enterprise)

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Certifications

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Data Sources

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