BROKERAGE PROGRAM

OVERVIEW

The Launchpad brokerage program is vital to the organisation’s work, providing financial support to achieve housing outcomes and other case management goals. In 2015, the City of Sydney committed to providing Launchpad with $200,000 per year to extend the brokerage program. As a result, Launchpad has been able to establish working arrangements with other non-Specialist Homelessness Services in the City of Sydney area to ensure wrap-around support for clients. In return, these partner agencies are able to access brokerage funds for their clients.

AGENCY ACCESS

Agencies who accessed the Brokerage program included:

  • Childrens Civil Law service
  • CRC
  • Fact Tree
  • Family Spirit
  • Foyer Central
  • Glebe Youth Service
  • Good Shepherd
  • KRC
  • Lillian Howell Project
  • Mission Australia
  • The Ted Noffs Foundation
  • Oasis
  • Peipod
  • Reconnect
  • Salvation Army
  • Shopfront
  • The Crossing
  • The Girls Refuge
  • Twenty 10
  • Wayside
  • WEAVE
  • Youthblock
  • YWCA

OUR 2025/26 STATISTICS

473 Young People
received brokerage support.

GENDER IDENTITY OF BROKERAGE CLIENTS 2025-26

FEMALE

251
53.1%

MALE

163
34.5%

NON-BINARY

14
3%

TRANSGENDER

14
3%

OTHER

25
5.3%

CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF BROKERAGE CLIENTS 2025-26

ABORIGINAL AND/OR TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER

222
46.9%

BORN OVERSEAS

162
34.2%

OTHER

89
18.8%

BROKERAGE DISTRIBUTION 2025-26

ACQUIRING
IDENTIFICATION

61

AMENITIES
ARREARS

3

BABY
NEEDS

22

CLOTHING

82

EDUCATIONAL/
VOCATIONAL

135

EMERGENCY
ACCOMMODATION

2

FOOD
VOUCHERS

664

GROCERIES

52

MEDICAL/
HEALTH NEEDS

49

MOBILE
PHONE

62

OTHER

186

PHONE
CARDS

50

PROPERTY
MAINTENANCE

40

REMOVALIST
EXPENSES

67

RENT ARREARS
PAID

8

SETUP
BOND

9

SETUP
MATERIAL

216

STORAGE

5

TRANSPORT
(OUT OF AREA)

2

TRANSPORT
(GENERAL)

105