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About Us
Windsor Ascot Maidenhead District
Sports Association for the Disabled.
WAMDSAD is a registered charity number
1078742
 WAMDSAD
is unique in the UK and has a strong and growing national
reputation. It is a sports club providing facilities for physically
and sensorially disabled people in the district of The Royal
Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead and surrounding areas. Our
Members’ include all types of physically and sensorially disabled
people covering a whole range of disabilities – the blind,
the deaf, amputees, heart disease, paraplegics, tetraplegics,
multiple sclerosis: the list is endless. But not only disabled
people – their families and friends too, supporters, coaches,
escorts, helpers, and volunteers of all sorts. See
the WAMDSAD Story.
One of our key objectives is to promote awareness
of disability through sport and recreation and particularly
integration of disabled and able-bodied people. We have over
600 members – approximately 200 are disabled with the balance
being able-bodied – coaches, escorts, helpers and families
and supporters generally.
 A
vital element of life at WAMDSAD is about having fun. Fun
through our fund-raising events, such as our Annual Marathon
Wheelchair Push, and fun through a whole raft of social
& fundraising events organised throughout the year
- such as Quiz Nights, Charity Balls, Country & Western
evenings, our renowned Christmas and New Year’s Eve parties
and a whole lot more.
Formed in 1975,
WAMDSAD’s policy is to try to organise any kind of sport our
Members desire. Current sports activities
include archery, air
weapons, fishing, water-skiing,
sailing, swimming
and table tennis and much more.
All of these are organised so that Members can take part in
sport at whatever level they wish – to be highly competitive,
perhaps World or Paralympic class, or just ‘have a go’ and
take part in sport for fun. We also offer a wide range of
other recreational activities.
 WAMDSAD
is a very ambitious and successful club. We are known for
both our sporting endeavour and self-help. Many of our Members
are international champions at European, World and Paralympic
levels. In 2004, three Members were selected for the Great
Britain team at the Athens Paralympics,
returning with three medals. These achievements reflect WAMDSAD’s
objective to promote sporting excellence: - we are however
equally active at the development at grass root level where
our Members just wish to get involved in sport and recreation
for fun.
But all our activities cost a great deal
of money and as a voluntary charitable organisation fundraising
is an essential element of our day-to-day life. As such WAMDSAD
have to raise approximately £150,000 per year to operate.
See fundraising.
 We
have superb facilities at Braywick, Maidenhead, second to
none in the UK, with our own clubhouse built in 1982 and extended
in 1996, owned and managed by Members for our Members. In
1996 we won the Top Club Award for the best sports club for
the disabled in the UK and the Local Sports Council Award
for the best-developed club in the district. In 2001 we were
runners-up in the Sports Club of the Year Awards, organised
by the Central Council of Physical Recreation for voluntary
(able bodied and disabled) clubs in the UK.
WAMDSAD is managed by a Board of Directors
and has a formal structure of Committees, which manage all
sporting and social activities. An office is maintained at
the club, staffed by Administrators and the Operations Director.
See our people page.
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