The Disability Advice Project is a Torfaen based charity that serves the needs of disabled people, their families and carers in our community. The Project also operates in the surrounding areas of Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Swansea in South Wales.

The Project is run by a highly skilled, experienced and dedicated team made up of unpaid and paid members of staff, who all have experience of being a disabled person or of caring for a disabled person.

In 2000 the project was awarded the Wales Training Award and in 2005 was the winner of the National Training Award, which is the UK's most prestigious award for training. The National Training Awards identify and celebrate organisations and individuals that have achieved really outstanding business and personal success through investment in training.

In March 2001 DAP achieved the Investors in People standard, one of only 3 voluntary organisations in the UK and the first in Wales. In January 2002 DAP was awarded the Community Legal Service Quality Mark. The Quality Mark indicates to members of the public who need legal information, advice and other help that they can rely on receiving a quality assured service. Both awards have subsequently been maintained.

As we do not receive funding from local government, all donations from clients and other individuals combined with charges for our access auditing and training service are reinvested into the project and funds our free welfare rights work.
Since April 1999, we have represented over 500 people at disability benefit tribunals.

The Project is an independent charity that is a member of Scope DIAL UK and affiliated to SCOPE.

Charity No: 500000