National Association for Bikers with a Disability
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| Founded | April 1991 |
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| Type | Registered charity No. 1040907 & No. SC039897 |
| Focus | Motorcycles adapted for disabled rider |
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Area served
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England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Eire, Isle of Man, The Channel Isles. |
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Members
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8,500 (2016) |
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Revenue
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£268,498 (2015) |
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Employees
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2 |
| Slogan | When it comes to motorcycling, a disability need not be a handicap. |
| Website | www |
The National Association for Bikers with a Disability or NABD is a Registered Charity (No. 1040907) in the United Kingdom and (No. SC039897) in Scotland. The NABD gives technical advice and financial grants to help to adapt motorcycles, sidecars and trikes for use by disabled riders. It also gives advice on training and rider assessments. It owns a fleet of learner-legal motorcycles adapted for various disabilities, which it loans free of charge for training and tests.
The NABD is routinely consulted on issues relating to disabled motorcycling by the DVLA, DfT, VOSA, DSA, and MAVIS (the Mobility Advice and Vehicle Information Service).
The NABD was set up in April 1991 by six motorcyclists in and Manchester who would not accept the idea that disabled people could not ride motorcycles, scooters, or trikes.
The initial project was to find a way to adapt a motorcycle for a rider who had suffered the amputation of his lower left leg in an accident. A fund raising party was organised and publicised locally and this prompted several other disabled people to contact the group asking whether it was possible for them also to ride motorcycles. Within 12 months the NABD had just over 100 members and had helped three disabled people to adapt motorcycles and ride independently. Each adaption had to be designed from scratch, the money raised and the engineering problems solved, but from this small beginning the NABD was later to become the World leader in motorcycling for disabled people.
The membership of the NABD has now grown to more than 8,000 individual members and has more than 130 affiliated clubs and businesses. Since its foundation the NABD has directly helped over ten thousand disabled people to enjoy the freedom and independence of motorcycling.
The NABD has been instrumental in the founding of similar groups in Norway, Sweden, France, the USA, South Africa and Japan.
Throughout its history the NABD has been organised and managed by motorcyclists who work on a voluntary unpaid basis.
The NABD have two paid employees, these are in the administrative rolls of Office Manager and Administrative Assistant. Neither of these employees takes a direct part in decisions the relating to the governance of the NABD.
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