Disability Awareness Day

Disability Awareness Day (DAD), is Europe's largest 'not for profit' voluntary-led disability exhibition, and is held annually in a huge tented village within the grounds of Walton Hall Gardens. This year's show was held on Sunday 11th July in glorious sunshine

Organised by Warrington Disability Partnership, our 19th show attracted over 28,000 visitors on the day plus over 5000 visitors took part in the twelve complimentary events held during the week prior to DAD. This years show also attracted more than 280 exhibitors from across the UK. (Read the full story of DAD 2010 here.)

DAD has three main aims:

• To highlight what statutory, private or voluntary services are available to enable disabled people to be as independent as is possible.
• To promote equipment and aides that could maintain or improve independence, not just what is offered by statutory service providers, we want everyone to see the best and/or latest designs
• To provide an opportunity to show what disabled people can do, in the field of Sport, Arts and Entertainment

As well as fulfilling all these aims every year the show also gives everyone who comes a really good day out filled with interest, fun and entertainment!

Watch the video produced by our friends at Warrington Worldwide. Watch this space for the offical DAD 2010 video and the 2010 galleries which will be posted shortly. Well done to everyone who helped to make DAD 2010 the huge success it was.

We are now organising DAD 2011 so why not join in?. We look forward to welcoming you to DAD 2011 on Sunday 10th July.