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 made up of over 200 GDA members who dedicate extra time and energy to speaking out, campaigning, collaborating for…

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. GDA’s Social Care Expert Group brings together over 100 GDA members together to speak…

GDA’s Young Drivers for Change brings young disabled people (aged 14+) together to build skills, confidence and peer support and enable young disabled people’s voices…

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 know…

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