GDA’s Vision requires change and collaboration from the highest level. While our programmes build disabled people’s capacity and confidence to speak out and share their expertise, our partnership work builds relationships and opportunities for dialogue, involvement and co-design of policies and plans, to deliver the change we need.

Disabled people are three times more likely to live in poverty, for a whole range of reasons: barriers to employment and fair work, as well as…

Accessing the right Health and Social Care Services can be the difference not just between life and death, but between having a life or ‘just…

GDA was founded to support disabled people’s participation in decisions that affect us – and from our first ever big event in 2003 when we…

Disabled people face a range of barriers to accessing and retaining work and volunteering opportunities, including inaccessible recruitment processes, lack of practical support, lack of…

Social Isolation and Loneliness are increasingly recognised as a public health crisis, and disabled people are twice as likely to face severe loneliness, according to NHS Scotland.…

Barriers in the world around us are at the root of disabled people’s exclusion and inequality. That means that by listening to our lived experience,…

Participation, policy, and partnerships

Social security and poverty

Health and social care

Participatory budgeting and local democracy

Employability and volunteering

Tackling isolation

Accessible environment and public realm