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Vanguard Laundry Services

certifiedSocial Enterprise
ABN 94602965499|Harristown, QLD 4350|www.vanguardlaundry.com.au
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About

Vanguard Laundry Services (VLS) is a world-class social enterprise commercial laundry based in Toowoomba, purpose built to provide jobs and career opportunities for people with an experience of mental illness who struggle to secure work. VLS creates job opportunities for people with a lived experience of mental illness with the majority of these people not having worked in five years or more. Products and services include Cleaning Services & Equipment & Supplies. Primary beneficiaries include People with mental illness. Social Traders status: Certification Expired. Membership: Connections Membership.

Registered Charity

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

Purpose Enterprises Limited →
ABN 94602965499

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

$70Kacross 2 tracked grants (2021-22–2022-23)
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE JOBS FUND — 2021-22 · community_services
$45K
Social Enterprise Grants Program — 2022-23 · youth_justice
$25K

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.

Worth a closer lookACNC AIS · FY2023

One resilience signal worth noting in the latest filing — not a red flag on its own.

Income FY23
$4.7M
Surplus / deficit
−$187K
Reserves runway
3.9 mo
Liquidity (current ratio)
0.81
Operating deficitCurrent ratio under 1

Source: ACNC Annual Information Statement, FY2023 · Large charity · 6% 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.

SEQ City Deal — SEQ Innovation Economy Fund — DETSI · closes 25 June 2026enterprise
to $5.2M
Advance Queensland — Female Founders Co-Investment Fund — DETSI · closes 30 June 2026enterprise
to $200K
Back to Work Jobseeker Support — DTET · closes 30 June 2026enterprise
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IMove — iMove Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) — DTMR · closes 30 June 2026enterprise
to $150K
Secure Communities Partnership Program — Round 2 - Small Business — DCSODSFB · closes 30 June 2026enterprise
to $20K
Wheelchair Accessible Taxi Sustainability Funding — DTMR · closes 30 June 2026enterprise
to $55K

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

Sectors

Cleaning Services & Equipment & Supplies
Geographic Focus
QLDHarristown

Place Context

LGAToowoomba
RemotenessInner Regional Australia
SEIFA Decile4/10
Place Dossier →Full Entity Dossier →

Verification

certified

Social Traders certified

Tier reflects the strength of external verification, not how “social” an enterprise is. Marks belong to their issuing bodies. Checked June 2026.

Data Sources

Social Traders(June 2026)
Enriched: 12 March 2026(high)
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