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Be Empowered Disability Services

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Be Empowered Disability Services

Be Empowered provides gold standard Nursing services and Care supports to NDIS, My Aged Care or private participants.

We also offer wheelchair-accessible van hire on a short or long term basis, great for visitors and holidays or business hire.

16/04/2026

Seeking recommendations for Support at Home self managed Providers for managing invoices. Preferably Qld based.

09/04/2026

Needing transport while your vehicle is being modified?

You may be eligible to hire a Wheelchair accessible vehicle (WAV) under your NDIS plan.

Please seek advice from your Support Coordinator and NDIA liaison for further details.

06/04/2026

After recommendations for good accommodation for providing respite in Cairns. Must be adequate for electric wheelchair, 3 support workers, complex high needs.
Happy to look at Hotels, Airbnb, private etc.

10/03/2026

Wheelchair accessible van - FOR HIRE

Manage your own transport needs!

* While own vehicle being repaired 🚐

* Attending appointments 🩺

* Taking a holiday🌴🌺

* Can be used for Respite 🏘️

Seats in cabin can be removed to allow for more storage, medical equipment, space for hygiene cares to be carried out. 💺💺

Also provided - Master key for Public Disability bathrooms. 🔑

29/01/2026

Needing transport for your family member, friend or client? Sick of being forgotten or denied support?
Privately hire one of our wheelchair accessible vans for your next trip, whether it’s for appointments, planned activities or a holiday.

You choose your own driver! 🧑‍✈️🚐
You choose length of hire! ⏳🗓️
You choose the destination! 🌆🏞️

Townsville based, no limits to travel distance!

21/01/2026

Out at the cruise ship terminal on the weekend for a lovely family from brisbane needing transport so they could explore Townsville for the day during a short stop on their Queensland coastal cruise. 🚢🌴🐬

23/07/2025

Let’s be clear about something.

A van ride is not a day out.

Not for you.
Not for me.
Not for anyone.

If someone packed you into a van, drove around for a bit, maybe looped the same streets, then brought you back and called it a "day out," you'd call that insulting. You’d ask: “Where did we go? What did we do?”

And you’d be right to ask.

But too often, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities don’t get asked. They get loaded in and loaded out, and that’s supposed to be enough. It’s supposed to be stimulating, enriching, maybe even a treat. But really? It’s just movement without meaning.

A van ride isn't a choice. It isn’t a memory made. It’s transportation, and when there’s no destination, it’s just time being filled. That’s not inclusion. That’s killing time.

And people know. People know when they’re being patronized. They know when something’s being done to them instead of with them. They know when they’re being managed instead of respected.

We have to stop pretending that busy is the same as belonging.
We have to stop calling it a day out when it’s really just a loop around the block in a world that keeps them outside of it.

If we truly believe in rights, in dignity, in inclusion then we need to start asking different questions.

Not “Did they get out today?” but:
“Did they choose where to go?”
“Did they feel welcomed there?”
“Did they laugh, learn, live something?”

Because people with intellectual and developmental disabilities deserve more than motion.

They deserve meaning.💜

08/06/2025

Spotted out and about down the strand 😎 another happy customer enjoying the gorgeous Townsville winter 🧉🌴☀️

Wheelchair van hire available for NDIS, Aged care and private or commercial clients. Short and long term hire available. Great for appointments, or just some weekend fun and family holidays 🚐🏖️🛍️

20/05/2025

Our New Website up and running!!

16/08/2024

Gorgeous day down the Strand 🌴🧉

♿️Wheelchair-accessible vans for hire!

🔴short or long term hires
🟠great for visitors & holidays
🟡personal or business
🟢drop off / pick up available
🔵automatic, regular car license
🟣fully insured & commercial compliant with certificate of inspection

02/07/2024

Located in Townsville.
Open to transport vehicles to your location across Australia.

21/06/2024

Wheelchair accessible van for hire!

Available to private clients or business.

* Fully compliant vehicle & hoist with QLD transport.
* Fully Insured
* Automatic transmission
* Normal car license
* 7 seats plus wheelchair
* Beautiful to drive
* Not limited to Townsville, possible drop off/ pick up at location by negotiation.
* Short or long term hire available

Please contact for more details & rates.

Address

Townsville, QLD
4817

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+61426292109

Website

http://beempowereddisabilityservices.com.au/

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