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Supported work. Real customers. Run with people with disability.
Pure Start is a Hunter Valley registered charity running handcrafted candles, vehicle washing, and community market stalls: helping people build skills, confidence, and community connection.
Pure Start creates supported work and community-engagement opportunities for people with disability in the Hunter region, through a mix of social enterprise and fundraising activities. The point is to help people build practical skills, confidence, and community connection.
Every dollar earned: through sales, services, fundraising, and grants; is reinvested into running more of the same.
A Registered Charity You Can Trust
Pure Start is registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) and incorporated in NSW under the Associations Incorporation Act 2009. We hold $10M public and product liability insurance, operate under a constitution that prohibits private gain, and reinvest 100% of revenue into program delivery. No committee member is paid.
ACNC Registered · INC2500927 · ABN 12 693 417 567
Handcrafted Candles Program
Poured by the team at the Community Access & Skills Hub during the week, then sold at community markets on weekends. Each candle is made, packaged, and sold by people with disability working in a supported environment. Our first market trade was Easter Sunday 2026 at the Maitland Community Markets.
Vehicle-Washing Program
A vehicle-washing service in development with a local community organisation. Task-based work, on-site supervision, and a customer standing right there: real service, real standards. The team is trained at the Hub before stepping into customer-facing work.
Community Fundraising
Bunnings BBQs and sausage sizzles bring Pure Start out into the community and raise funds that go straight back into materials, market fees, and trading equipment. Our first Bunnings BBQ runs Sunday, 7 June 2026.
How it Works: Three stages, anchored at the Skills Hub
Make it
Rehearse it
Rehearse it
The team produces the product or learns the service at the Hub during the week: candle pouring, vehicle-cleaning techniques, product knowledge.
Rehearse it
Rehearse it
Rehearse it
Before anyone serves a customer in public, we practise the work in the Hub. The till, the product. Confidence comes from repetition. By the time someone is handing a candle to a customer at the market, they've already rehearsed it in the workshop.
Trade it
Rehearse it
Trade it
Weekends and scheduled service days, in real settings: community markets, customer sites, community events.
Where Every Dollar Goes section
Pure Start is a registered charity and a not-for-profit. Our constitution prohibits private gain, no committee member is paid, and 100% of revenue and grants are reinvested into program delivery — materials, equipment, market and stall fees, insurance, and the costs of supporting the team to attend trading days.
The committee enforces it.
Get Involved
Three ways to support Pure Start.
Buy something. Candles at the markets. Vehicle washing on request. Every purchase funds the next one.
Volunteer. Especially on trading days. You'll be working alongside the team, not supervising them.
Fund a program. Grants and donations go directly into materials, market fees, and supported attendance. Every dollar is traceable.
If you'd like to learn more, support the charity, or explore involvement opportunities, get in touch and we'll respond promptly.
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