Peer support is vital for building disabled people’s confidence, positive identity and collective voice. GDA has supported a wealth of peer groups to develop and thrive within our membership, reflecting the diversity of Glasgow’s disabled people and ensuring safe supportive spaces where voices and collective identity can flourish.

Our Drivers for Change network is over 100 GDA members who dedicate extra time and energy to speaking out, collaborating for change and supporting others…

When GDA members joined the late Tony Benn to march in defence of our public services, in 2011, they wore purple rain ponchos to stay…

Social Care is a key part of disabled people’s human rights. Our Social Care Expert Group brings GDA members together to speak out and share…

An illustration showing three people standing talking togther: The person in the middle is leaning on crutches and is smiling and chatting. Just behind them is someone with a supportive hand on their back, smiling encouragingly. The third person is wearing a lanyard and holding a clipboard, smiling, listening and taking notes. Behind them is a building with a banner which reads 'come in - Take Part' - in the corner are money bags with black and yellow tape on them whc=ich reads 'Choice and Control'.

GDA’s Young Drivers for Change brings young disabled people together to build skills, confidence and peer support and enable young disabled people’s voices to influence…

GDA has always supported Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Pride in Glasgow. In 2017 a small group of GDA members decided that more needed to…

GDA understands that on top of the disabling barriers that all our members face, disabled people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds face…

Hannah with two members outside the Riverside Museum

GDA’s disabled women’s network comes together to ensure disabled women’s voices are heard in the drive for both disability equality and gender equality. GDA’s Women’s…

Pre-pandemic, GDA supported our members to take the lead in their own lives and communities, and our STAR clubs are a stellar example! GDA has…

Voices and peer support

Drivers for change

GDA’s Purple Poncho Players

Future Visions: Social Care Expert Group

GDA Young Drivers for Change

LGBT Disabled People’s Space

GDA Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic members’ network

GDA disabled women’s network

GDA’s Star Clubs