NDIS Microenterprise Support That Builds a Real Business, Not Just an Idea
Ask most NDIS microenterprise programs what a participant walks away with, and the honest answer is: an idea, and a plan for it. That's not nothing - working out what business actually suits someone, and how to approach it, is real capacity-building work. But it leaves the hardest part - actually building the thing and making it run - for later, usually with whoever happens to be around the participant at the time.
This program is built around a different end point. It doesn't stop at a plan. It produces a working business.
What "a real micro-business" actually means here
A website that actually exists
Not a mock-up or a template demo - a live site a customer can visit, built around the participant's own product or service.
A full CRM
A real system to manage bookings, customers, orders and payments, so the business runs on something more reliable than a notebook or a memory.
Decisions that stay the participant's
Every choice about the business - what it sells, how it looks, how it runs - is worked through together and made by the participant, not handed to them pre-built.
Built for the actual barrier, not a generic curriculum
Support is concentrated on the specific parts a participant's disability makes difficult, rather than a one-size program everyone works through in the same order.
Something that keeps running without the provider
Designed so the participant can operate it day to day once it's live, not a system that needs the provider's ongoing involvement to function.
Why it's funded this way
This fits within Supports in Employment - support item 04_801_0133_5_1 - within a participant's Core Supports budget, or Employment Assistance - support item 10_016_0102_5_3 - under Finding and Keeping a Job in Capacity Building, whichever applies to the individual plan, confirmed with the plan manager. The NDIS's own description of Supports in Employment names micro-business, self-employment and family-run business directly as settings it covers. The funding already exists for this, in most participants' plans with an employment or economic-participation goal. The part that's usually missing isn't the money - it's someone who delivers it as a finished thing rather than a conversation about possibilities.
Who it's delivered by
Leah Justyce has sold her own work for 26 years. That matters more than it might sound - most microenterprise support in Australia is delivered by support workers and mentors employed to run someone else's program, not by people who have actually built and sold something of their own. Working 1:1, online, with each session concentrated on the specific part a participant's disability makes a barrier, the work stays entirely the participant's - their product, their decisions, their business at the end of it.
Delivered online, so location is never the barrier
Because every session happens online, a participant in regional, rural or remote Australia has exactly the same access, and works with the same practitioner, as a participant in a capital city. Any NDIS participant anywhere in the country whose plan includes this kind of support can take part - on either a plan-managed or self-managed basis.
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This article is general information dated 31 October 2026, not financial or planning advice. This is capacity-building and skill-development support, not a guarantee of income or business success, and funding eligibility always depends on the individual participant's plan. Juste is operated by Leah Justyce Art Gallery ABN 73 658 665 321.