It all started when…

APDA was founded in London in 1988 by a group of Asian Disabled People to start what is now a well established Pan-Disability Organisation (DPO) to provide culturally specific care for the South Asian elderly and disabled community.

It was set up by those who had themselves an in-depth knowledge and personal experience of   disability   and   care.   This   was needed, as there was very little appropriate support available at that time.

APDA is a non-governmental and non-de-nominational organisation.

Our Aims and Objectives

• To provide a needs and user-led culturally appropriate service.

• To collaborate and work in partnership with service planners and mainstream sup-port bodies.

• To Act as a resource for disabled people, their carers and their families.

• To work with our disabled peers in the Developing World.

Why we have these Aims and Objectives

We have these aims and objectives so that we can:

• Reach out where mainstream services cannot through lack of expertise and under-standing of disabled people, their carers and families.

• Help incorporate the particular needs of APDA’s client group in relation to service planning and areas that affect their lives.

• Provide consultation, peer support and facilitate their social development.

• Link with the Developing World allowing us to share knowledge, experience and dis-ability attributes  that  assist  and  enrich  socio - economic development.