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Creating Real Paid Work Opportunities
From First Shift To First Career
Buds At Work helps people with disabilities build confidence, skills and income through real local jobs across Logan and South Brisbane.
✦ 2% of our current wishlist is funded — help us reach 100%
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Participant supported
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Paid jobs completed
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Jobs to next milestone
A real window cleaning job, a real customer, and a real paid work pathway beginning to form.
Meet Silvan
The work starts with one person, one shift and one practical win at a time.
Silvan is one of the first people being supported through Buds At Work. He is building confidence through hands-on routines, clear expectations and paid jobs that happen in the community.
The goal is not a token activity. It is useful work with real standards: turning up, learning the task, using the tools safely and finishing a job someone values.
Every piece of support helps create the environment around that work: equipment, training, supervision, transport and the next customer opportunity.
This is how a first shift can become the start of a first career.
Impact So Far
Real work. Real outcomes.
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Participant Supported
2
Paid Jobs Completed
Progress So Far
A pathway is being built in public.
The numbers matter because they represent visible movement: first support, first jobs, first tools and the next milestone.
First participant supported
1Silvan is being supported through practical work routines and real job expectations.
First paid jobs completed
2Window cleaning and local service jobs are turning community demand into paid shifts.
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Equipment purchased and opportunities created
0Tools and supplies are being added as the work expands into more service types.
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Next milestone: 10 paid jobs
10The next target is proving repeatable work, repeatable training and repeatable customer value.
Opportunities To Fund
Fund the practical pieces that create more paid work.
Each wishlist item is connected to a work outcome: safer jobs, better training, larger service capacity or more shifts.
EquipmentCheetah 16 127cc Cut And Catch Lawn Mower
$248Help Buds At Work purchase Cheetah 16 127cc Cut And Catch Lawn Mower.
How this creates paid work
Supports safer, better-equipped paid shifts and helps turn community demand into practical work.
Supports: Buds At Work participants and crew members
$5 raised2% of $248
$243 remaining
Payment processing fees may reduce the final amount received.
1 person has contributed
$243 still needed
Why We Started
Many people want paid work. The opportunity is the missing piece.
Buds At Work was created to bridge that gap through practical jobs, community support and real employment pathways.
Buds At Work is not a charity. It is a practical employment pathway built around useful services local customers already need.
Window cleaning, lawn mowing, property maintenance, cleaning and community work can become structured opportunities where people learn, earn and contribute.
The support around the job is what makes the work possible.
Other Ways To Help
Support the pathway from more than one angle.
The strongest support is often practical: work to do, tools to use, people to learn from and shifts worth showing up for.
Hire Buds At Work
Book window cleaning, lawn care, cleaning or property work and turn a real local job into a paid shift.
Book A JobDonate Equipment
Contribute tools, safety gear, cleaning supplies or transport support that increases job capacity.
Become A Training Partner
Share practical skills, safety routines or workplace knowledge that helps participants grow on the job.
Offer Workplace Experience
Open a structured, supported environment where people can learn routines and build confidence.
Sponsor A Shift
Fund a practical work opportunity that covers resources, supervision and the support around the job.
Help Create The Next Opportunity
Every contribution helps create more practical paid work opportunities.
Support the equipment, training and resources that let people build confidence, skills and income through real local jobs.