Support & Partnerships

DACH welcomes support from individuals, families, museums, universities, archives, funders, collectors, private owners and partner organisations who share our commitment to preserving disabled people’s heritage, stories and material culture. As a small volunteer-led charity, we rely on practical help, goodwill, specialist knowledge, donations and project partnerships to protect material that is often overlooked, fragile, dispersed or at risk of being lost.

Support can take many forms. Some people contact us with memories, photographs, documents, manuals, film, objects or vehicles connected to disability history and mobility. Others support the charity through research, volunteering, transport, storage, conservation advice, public engagement, fundraising or professional expertise. Museums and heritage organisations may work with DACH and the Invalid Carriage Register to identify, interpret or safeguard invalid carriages, mobility vehicles and related archive material. Television companies work with us, as shown in the image of the left, featuring Alex Brooker, working for the BBC.  We are also interested in partnerships that help record oral histories, create exhibitions, develop digital resources, publish research and improve public understanding of disabled people’s lives.

DACH’s work is especially connected to the Invalid Carriage Register, which records and researches the history of British invalid carriages, Invacars and related mobility vehicles. Donations to DACH help support this wider charitable purpose, including research, public education, collections advice and the preservation of rare disability heritage. Where donors or funders wish to support a specific area of work, such as the Invalid Carriage Register, oral history recording, exhibitions or publication development, this can be discussed with the trustees.

We thank all our supporters, from engineers, to transport companies, to analysts and researchers and of course, previous owners of carriages and their families and friends.

We are keen to build careful, respectful and practical partnerships. Our aim is not simply to collect material, but to ensure that disabled people’s heritage is properly recognised, interpreted and shared for public benefit. 

If you have material to offer from a photograph to a vehicle, a story to share, a project idea, or would like to support DACH’s work, please contact us. Please email invacar@yahoo.co.uk and we can arrange a discussion, by email, phone or Zoom. Many thanks.