Tow-bar/pole for bike
TADSA volunteer Des Chabrel was asked to make a tow-bar to facilitate towing a trike behind a bike. This is the second one he has built and he incorporated modifications made by the original client’s Dad. The tow-bar is made…
Head band for hearing aid
Many of TADSA’s projects can be completed using traditional metalwork, woodwork or other skills and technologies. Recently, however, TADSA volunteer Stuart Crisp completed a project using a more modern approach. Our client Peter was born without ears and with a…
TADSA working with schools
TADSA has completed many projects for special schools/units over its 40 years. Our volunteers not only design, build and modify equipment, but they have also repaired devices which a school may have had in a broken, unusable state for months…
Project Summary December 2017 to February 2018
TADSA volunteers completed 19 projects in the 3 months from December 2017 to February 2018. 191 total volunteer hours.
Tech Member and Volunteer Profile Richard Jackson
Why did you join TADSA? I started to volunteer with TADSA in June 1988. I had decided that I had had enough of working for the Public Service, and had started working for myself. My background is electronics, and it…
Project Summary September to November 2017
TADSA volunteers completed 36 projects in the 3 months from September to November 2017. 630 total volunteer hours.
Project Summary June to August 2017
TADSA volunteers completed 21 projects in the 3 months from June to August 2017. 428 total volunteer hours.
Making life a TAD easier for 40 years
We’re a unique South Australian charity that has been making life easier for people living with disability and the aged for 40 years.
Sammi wore out her Freedom Wheels bike
Freedom Wheels is a wonderful program where TADSA volunteers modify standard bikes with a range of prefabricated accessories so that children with disabilities can do something that most of us take for granted – ride a bike.
Patron Libby Kosmala
TADSA must be the only charity whose patron is armed. Our patron Libby Kosmala is a Paralympian who competed at her first Paralympic Games in 1972. She received a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1985
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