Irish Wheelchair Association is one of Ireland’s leading organisations for people with physical disabilities.

We provide a nationwide assisted living service, community centres in every county, a fleet of accessible buses, a national parking permit and driving school service, wheelchair accessible social houses and help young people with disabilities to build employability skills and confidence.

Our flagship sports programme, IWA Sport, is the national governing body for wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby and powerlifting and runs sports clubs for children and adults. Many of Ireland’s finest para-athletes started their careers with IWA Sport.

Our Impact in 2024

Our assisted living service delivers 1.2 million hours of service annually.
We managed 51 wheelchair accessible and affordable homes.
Our 134 accessible buses connected wheelchair users with their communities in the absence of a State service.
We provided almost 86,440 days of service in our centres to 2,070 people.
We ran 48 Community Centres and 17 Outreach Centres where people with disabilities attend training, socials and therapies.
Our 20 IWA-Sport Clubs encouraged participation in sport for adults and children and celebrated 10 members competing at the 2024 Paralympic Games.
Provided 342 driving assessments and over 1,799 driving lessons to 542 students.
We took part in 13 election hustings, we supported 44 new self-advocates through our Self-Advocacy Training Programme and our DAISY Programme reached 54 primary schools across Ireland

Our History

Irish Wheelchair Association was set up sixty years ago in 1960 when a group of Paralympians took the visionary move to establish an organisation and services that cater for people with physical disabilities.

View IWA’s History

Irish Wheelchair Association
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